Research / Consultancy

Claire Sandamas

Claire Sandamas is a senior researcher at the Tavistock Institute. Claire has an MSc in Social Research Methods (University of Surrey, 1998) and an MSc in Occupational and Organizational Psychology (University of East London, 2001). Claire's particular areas of interest are in inter and intra-organizational relations, culture and change issues; and the experiences of socially excluded/marginalised groups, in particular with regard to accessing public services, and employment.

With over ten years' applied research and evaluation experience, Claire has contributed to the design and undertaking of ex ante, interim, ex post, formative and summative evaluations of European, National and Local programmes across a number of domains, including education, training and learning; work and HR policy and practice; social inclusion; and the information society. Claire's particular areas of interest are inter and intra-organizational relations, culture and change issues; and the experiences of socially excluded/marginalised groups, in particular with regard to accessing public services and employment. Claire has experience of using a wide range of qualitative research methods and also has some experience of quantitative design and analysis. With a keen interest in methodological design, Claire has a particular interest in adopting a stakeholder/participatory approach and a systems perspective in the work she undertakes.

An experienced Project Manager, Claire has worked with a range of different client systems, on both long and short term assignments, and has managed European partnerships, as well as the contribution of UK Associates to Evaluation projects.