Lucy Lernelius
Associate Consultant
Lucy is a consultant, facilitator and trainer. She specialises in evaluation.
Lucy joined our consultancy team in 2022. She has over 10 years of experience in research, evaluation and management in the voluntary, public and higher education sectors.
Lucy supports people and organisations to create social change and improve their work through effective evaluation. She's worked on projects ranging from local community events and social justice campaigns, to multi-million-pound initiatives affecting thousands of people.
Lucy joined NCVO from the University of Manchester. There she led evaluations of initiatives supporting underrepresented groups in higher education. Before that she worked as a researcher for Greater Manchester Combined Authority and the Directory of Social Change. She’s also managed small charities in the UK and Australia.
Lucy has an MSc Sociological Research from the University of Manchester and a BA Psychology and Philosophy from the University of Liverpool. She’s also an ILM qualified coach and mentor. She uses these skills to support charities to develop their evaluation and impact processes and practice.
Areas of expertise
- Quantitative and qualitative research methods
- Creative evaluation methods
- Participatory evaluation approaches
- Theory of change and evaluation framework development
- Coaching and mentoring for evaluation practice
- Skills and education research and evaluation
- Volunteer management and evaluating volunteer programmes
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Cost-benefit analysis
Lucy’s clients have included
- Power to Change: Acting as the learning and impact partner for the Leading the Way voluntary sector leadership development programme.
- Community Leisure UK: Managing the evaluation of Active Kindness, a project designed to develop volunteering across the leisure sector.
- University of Manchester: Delivering a mixed-method external evaluation of the Turing Scheme international study programmes.
- Centre for Ageing Better: Evaluating the Age Friendly Inclusive Volunteering project.
- ReThink Food: Developing a theory of change and evaluation framework.
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