Health, Social Care & Community Safety

With over 22 years of research and consultancy experience, Andy has a strong track record of delivering high-quality assignments for public and private sector clients. He has a diverse portfolio of work covering the arts, culture, and heritage as well as social welfare advice, employability, education, community safety, health, and social care. He has delivered consultancy assignments for a range of clients across the UK including DCMS, National Lottery Heritage Fund, Violence Reduction Partnerships, Carers Trust, English Heritage, Welsh Government, Groundwork UK, Youth Sport Trust, Visit Scotland, Skills for Care, Age UK, The King’s Trust and Arts Council England.

Andy is a specialist in delivering formative and summative evaluation studies and evidence reviews. He has a background in evaluating area-based and community-led regeneration programmes and formative and summative evaluations of capital projects within the heritage sector. In the arts and cultural sector, Andy has worked to increase participation across the sector, assessing programmes aimed at diversifying funding streams and building resilience within arts and cultural organisations.

Andy has hands-on experience in public sector service delivery drawn from roles within the police and the NHS.  He has a strong track record of leading research projects within the health and social care sector, including work exploring the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics in adult social care.

In addition to his undergraduate degree in Geography, Andy has an MPhil in Geography and a Postgraduate Diploma (with distinction) in Urban Policy & Regeneration. He is also a member of the Social Research Association and the UK Evaluation Society. Outside of work Andy takes a keen (friends would say obsessive) interest in local history and is a regular visitor to historic properties and heritage sites. Andy is also a keen cross-fit enthusiast as well as a fanatic football supporter.

Eddie is an experienced researcher having conducted research projects across numerous sectors and thematic areas. He is particularly interested in research related to education, skills and training, arts and culture and economic development. Eddie has worked with a range of clients across the public sector including local and combined authorities as well as various clients from the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise sector.

Prior to joining Wavehill, Eddie had a career in teaching and he has a good understanding of the education sector. He has carried out research in schools on various topics including supporting pupils mental health, blended learning and literacy. Eddie is an effective project manager and has skills and experience in all aspects of project delivery including developing methodologies, research tool design, quantitative and qualitative analysis and reporting.

Eddie has an MA in Education and is a member of the Institute of Economic Development.

An economics graduate from UWE Sarah has a detailed understanding of research design, conducting interviews and quantitative data analysis. Specialising in evaluations involving young people and hard-to-reach groups, she has delivered many evaluations and research pieces including issues such as youth provision, youth crime, employability, and other evaluation topics.

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Sarah works on projects across the Wavehill portfolio, both in the North-East and the rest of the UK, with clients in the public and third sector looking at violence prevention, nature connection and engagement with heritage, to name a few. Sarah has over 12 years’ experience working as a youth worker and mentor with young people from many different backgrounds.

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With a focus on qualitative research, Sarah has experience of critically evaluating data in ways that contribute to learning and enable sustainable change. Within this, she is well-versed in liaising with a variety of stakeholders and communities through various participatory methods, to ensure the research findings are representative of those they are impacting.

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Outside of work, Sarah spends her time travelling to numerous gigs and festivals, going to the gym or on outdoor adventures.