The Centre for Inclusive Evaluation (CIE) is a research, evaluation and learning partner working with organisations to create positive social change.
We believe that research matters when it is inclusive, rigorous, and useful. Our work combines academic depth with practical relevance; we get to know people, projects and organisations to reflect, learn and improve.
We are socially driven in the work we choose and we prioritise trust, integrity and collaboration. We believe all voices matter and work to ensure all stakeholders are empowered, with their voices amplified.
Meet Our Team
Dr Daniel Range
Director
Dan is a research specialist with extensive learning and evaluation experience in a variety of settings.
His previous work has explored the faith, community and voluntary sector, housing, health, and preventing and countering violent extremism programmes.
Together with Tom and Emily, Dan has led multiple formative and developmental evaluations at local, national and international levels.
He is particularly passionate about using facilitation to kick-start work and ensuring co-production from the outset of all projects.
Dr Thomas Fisher
Director
Tom is an analysis expert who specialises in delivering thorough and practical insights from data.
His previous work has ranged from local to international, and he is comfortable with a broad range of mixed research methods and data collection.
Over several years, Tom and Dan have developed a Theory of Change process in which co-production is intrinsic. This process is key to establishing a logical framework for measuring the outcomes and successes of projects.
Tom is a highly skilled facilitator and excels at bringing people together to explore research themes while centring inclusion.
Emily Paffett
Director
Emily is an academic and community researcher specialising in primary data collection, co-produced evaluations, and community engagement.
Her previous work has involved evaluations and learning with local communities on migration, health, and policing always working with a trauma-informed research approach.
Emily has a particular passion for conducting fieldwork and immersing herself in the worlds of partners and clients.
With an academic background in politics and governance, she is enthusiastic about working with local authorities to produce tangible results.
Our Researchers
Dr Aurélie French
Associate
Aurélie is an interdisciplinary researcher with experience across policy, academic and practitioner settings. She has particular expertise in research ethics, co‑production and participatory methods, informed by extensive fieldwork with marginalised and vulnerable communities in the UK and internationally. She is comfortable working with multiple research methods and in designing and facilitating learning spaces and workshops. She is committed to research that is inclusive and grounded in lived experience, and believes that research matters most when it creates meaningful value.
Dorrie Chetty
Associate
Dorrie is a sociologist based at the University of Westminster with long-standing expertise in gender, migration, race and inequality, and a strong commitment to participatory and community-engaged approaches. Her work has consistently focused on amplifying marginalised voices, particularly women, and examining how structural systems shape experiences of poverty, exclusion and access to services.
Dr Imogen Bayfield
Associate
Imogen is an ethnographer who specialises in social cohesion, community relations, participatory development, community empowerment, collective organising.
She has also used her community research to focus on security and extremism, and has worked as a Lead Coordinator for the Local Government Association’s Special Interest Group on Countering Emerging Threats (SIGCE).
Dr Kimberley Gower
Associate
Kimberley is a senior clinical psychologist and evaluation practitioner with extensive experience in trauma-informed practice, mental health systems and participatory research. She has worked within NHS and community settings supporting individuals and groups affected by poverty, housing insecurity and complex trauma, and brings this perspective into learning and evaluation design. Kimberley contributes psychologically informed approaches to reflective learning, ensuring that learning spaces are safe, inclusive and responsive to the emotional and relational dimensions of systems change work. She has led and contributed to mixed-methods evaluations of community-based programmes, embedding lived experience ethically and meaningfully into learning processes.
Dr Kelly Bogue
Associate
Kelly is social researcher with expertise in designing and leading interdisciplinary research projects addressing complex social challenges, including inequality, housing insecurity, mental health, and community resilience. She holds a PhD in Sociology and brings deep expertise in qualitative and participatory research methods, including ethnographic and community-led approaches. Kelly is also the author of a critically acclaimed monograph on the Bedroom Tax and housing insecurity, with a strong track record of producing policy-relevant research for local and regional government.
The Meaning Behind Our Logo
Unlike a traditional diamond, the concave form draws inward, symbolising the space where people and perspectives meet. For us, this represents what inclusive evaluation achieves: creating a shared centre of gravity where collaboration, learning and understanding take place. The shape doesn’t project outward; it draws people in. That is what we do — bring organisations, communities and participants together in meaningful dialogue. ​​
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Just as our work draws diverse stakeholders into dialogue, the logo’s form signifies connection and inclusion — the centre where collaboration thrives and learning takes place. Simple, balanced and purposeful, it captures what we stand for: evaluation that is participatory, reflective, and focused on finding value at the intersection of perspectives.
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