Consultation Analysis

Endaf has 25 years experience in the public, private and third sectors as a company director, project manager and a researcher. He has worked in areas as diverse as employment, youth services and engagement, business support, health and wellbeing, economic impact assessment and the physical and social regeneration of communities. His focus throughout his career has however been on rural development.

Prior to moving into research and evaluation over 15 years ago, Endaf gained valuable experience in both the public and third sectors. He was the Commercial Director at Menter a Busnes (Business and Enterprise) a leading economic development company and social enterprises in Wales. Prior to that, Endaf was employed by the Welsh Development Agency for a period of seven years during which as a Programme Manager he was responsible for a package of community regeneration and business support programmes with an annual budget in excess of £6m.

A fluent Welsh speaker, Endaf lives in Aberystwyth with his wife Siwan and children Megan and Huw.

Meg is an experienced Senior Consultant at Wavehill, with research and evaluation expertise relating to nature and biodiversity, protected landscapes, young people and education, connecting people to nature. Megan offers excellent project management skills, having led teams of analysts for clients including the Protected Landscapes Partnership, Defra, Natural England, Natural Resources Wales, Scottish Government, Historic England, and Groundwork UK.

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Megan has excellent knowledge of the environmental policy landscape. She was the Lead Analyst for the programme evaluation of the Green Recovery Challenge Fund, which involved strategic oversight of monitoring information and programme indicators over 90 funded projects. Her work in the education sector includes a review of eFSM as an indicator of socioeconomic disadvantage amongst learners for the Welsh Government and research on the resilience of the third-sector youth organisations in Bristol.

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Meg is a strong multi-disciplinarian, with an ability to triangulate qualitative, quantitative, and spatial data to communicate meaningful, interesting research findings. Meg holds a Master’s in Advanced Quantitative Methods (MRes), and her technical expertise is complemented by her excellent grounding in qualitative methods, having completed a range of consultation analyses for the Welsh Government and Scottish Governments. She has a range of experience in data analysis, with particular strength in large and unstructured datasets using SPSS, NVivo, R, and Python.

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When Megan's not in the London office she can be found in the Peak District where she lives, either running, cycling, climbing, swimming, or brewing a coffee. Megan is also a member of a choir, as well as a proud French speaker, and a tentative Welsh learner.

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.