Monitoring & Evaluation

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.

Anna is an experienced social researcher, having worked in research and policy consultancy for the past 7 years. She is an experienced project manager and has delivered a wide range of local, regional and national evaluations. Anna’s areas of expertise are wide ranging and include employability and social inclusion, nature-based interventions and connectedness and community regeneration.

Anna is trained in advanced qualitative and quantitative research methods and has delivered countless mixed-method projects for public, private and third-sector clients. In particular, Anna specialises in qualitative research and focuses on developing analytical processes and methods to ensure that qualitative data is captured, analysed, and reported on in an engaging and meaningful way.

Anna joined Wavehill in 2017, and brings a wide range of experience with her, having previously worked at national charity Brook, and Bristol-based drug and education policy think tank, Transform. Anna has a BA (hons) in History and an MSc (with distinction) in Public Policy, both from the University of Bristol.

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.