The evaluations team

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Alan Mackie: Head of Evaluations

Alan joined the group in 2008. Over the past 15 years he has worked on a number of crime and social policy research and evaluation projects for central and local government, including the Home Office, the Ministry of Justice, the Office of Criminal Justice Reform, the Youth Justice Board and the Department of Communities and Local Government. He has published on many areas of the of the criminal justice system, including youth justice, sentencing and offender management.

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Jack Cattell: Principal Researcher

Jack has over eight years of research and evaluation experience, both as a commissioner of policy relevant research and as a researcher delivering to public sector organizations. Jack rejoined Matrix in July 2008 after two years within the Social Research and Evaluation division at the Department for Transport. He has managed and designed research projects of high strategic importance in transport, education, criminal justice, health and European policy, and his role at Matrix is to provide expert research and evaluation methods advice to clients.

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David Morton: Analyst

In October 2007 David was recruited by Matrix as a consultant before joining the operational research team as an analyst in January 2008. David brings a host of technical skills to Matrix and has experience in the use and application of Access, Excel and VBA as well as other specialist analytical software packages including SPSS and SAS. David’s primary focus has been the development of analytical methods, tools and models.
David graduated in 2006 and holds a MChem in Computer-Aided Chemistry from the University of Surrey.

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Lucy Bunting: Researcher

Lucy is a Research Assistant within the evaluations team of Matrix Evidence. Prior to joining Matrix, Lucy gained experience within numerous criminal justice agencies, including conducting qualitative and quantitative questionnaires with victims of crime, on behalf of a policing agency. Lucy has a BA degree in Criminology from the University of Leicester, where she gained a wealth of knowledge and interest in both qualitative and quantitative research methods and an array of criminological areas, including; youth justice, penal reform, and substance misuse and social exclusion.

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