Principal Researcher/ Consultant

Kerstin Junge, PHD

I am a principal researcher and consultant at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR) with eight years' UK and EU experience in designing, managing and implementing ex ante, interim, ex post evaluations across a range of innovative social policy interventions.

Within the TIHR my methodological work includes leading on a study on better attribution in transport impact evaluations (Department for Transport), a methodological approach to evaluating local authority led Prevent work (Department for Communities and Local Government) and then a set of guidelines for these evaluations. Recent programme evaluation experience includes an outcome evaluation of the English Skilled for Health programme, a health inequalities intervention implemented across 12 community, employer and sector sites; evaluations of two Local Authority preventing violent extremism programmes, as well as a process and outcome evaluation of road safety policy.

I am also currently working for DG EMPL in the European Commission to develop logics of intervention for the next round of ESF Operational Programmes. I have recently returned to the Institute from a 13-month secondment to The Health Foundation where I was responsible for developing evaluation approaches for complicated and complex interventions to improve the quality of healthcare, commissioning evaluation studies, managing evaluation contractors and preparing final evaluation reports for dissemination. I also led the Health Foundation's internal organisational impact assessment work. My particular interest is in evaluation theories and methods and in the use of evaluation for organisational learning.