The Centre for Inclusive Evaluation (CIE) is a research, evaluation and learning partner working with organisations to create positive social change.
Evaluation research is most useful and impactful when it is inclusive. Our work brings together academic rigour with practical, useful research; we get to know people, projects and organisations, helping them get better at tackling inequity and harm.
We are a socially-driven research centre, prioritising trust-building, integrity and collaboration. We believe all voices matter and work hard to ensure all stakeholders are meaningfully included in evaluation.
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
Researcher
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
Researcher
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
Researcher
Imogen is sociologist specialising in community and organisational dynamics, social cohesion, participatory development, community empowerment, sociopolitical inequalities and marginalization, systems thinking and complexity.
She has extensive experience of co-designing and implementing research agendas with policy, practice and community partners, developing methodological assemblages appropriate to the context and need of the research study and participants. Her first book, Engaged Publics: Community Empowerment and Collective Organizing in Times of Crisis, is due for publication in 2026.
Dr Kimberley Gower
Researcher
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
Researcher
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.
Dr Last Mafuba
Researcher
Last is a social scientist, researcher and community leader with extensive experience working at the intersection of migration, mental health, community wellbeing and health inequalities. As Founder and Director of Inini Initiative, she has spent more than a decade supporting migrants, refugees and ethnically diverse communities through community-led approaches to wellbeing, engagement and inclusion. Last holds qualifications in Psychology, International Development Law and Human Rights, and a PhD in Social Sciences with a focus on Public Health. Her work combines research, evaluation, community engagement and lived experience to explore how belonging, trust and identity influence mental health, wellbeing and access to services. She brings particular expertise in cultural humility, co-production, community trust and inclusive approaches to research and evaluation, supporting organisations to better understand underserved communities and drive meaningful systems change.
Dr Richard Tomlins
Researcher
Dr Richard Tomlins is a sociologist with a PhD from the University of Warwick. He is experienced and skilled in consultancy, the reporting and training for Government, including EIAs and most recently devising and delivering sessions for the Cabinet Office Civil Service Future Leaders Scheme, The Chevening Ethiopia Leadership Fellowship and FCDO.
He has been appointed as a Visiting Professor in Leadership and Management at Alfred Nobel University in Dnipro, Visiting Professor in the Urban Realm at Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture and a Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Universitas Tidar, Indonesia.
Dr Anna Gillions
Researcher
Anna is an interdisciplinary researcher and practitioner with extensive experience in facilitation and consultation. With significant experience as a behavioural practitioner, spanning mental health, trauma, advocacy, policy development and leadership, Anna brings deep practice wisdom to her research. Her interests centre on how social structures shape emotions and behaviour, particularly experiences of marginalisation, shame and violence. Using qualitative and visual methods, she works in trauma-informed, participatory and inclusive ways, committed to research that creates meaningful, real-world change.
Dr Ezechiel Sentama
Researcher
Ezechiel is a researcher and capacity builder with over 20 years of international experience in peacebuilding and social change, examining inequality, exclusion, conflict, transitional justice, reconciliation, and peace education across Africa, the Middle East, and the UK. He holds a PhD in Peace and Development Research and specialises in qualitative, mixed-methods, comparative, and participatory research, with substantial experience leading evaluations and impact assessments. His approach emphasises inclusive methods that highlight the voices and lived experiences of vulnerable, marginalised, and victimised communities. It is grounded in contact theory and transformative change theory, generating evidence that supports more effective and transformative solutions.
Dr Laura Sulin
Researcher
Laura is a feminist scholar with extensive experience across academic, policy, and international development settings. Her work is grounded in intersectional analysis and shaped by commitment to participatory research methods. With over a decade of fieldwork experience in communities across the UK and internationally, she brings a nuanced, practice‑informed perspective to questions of gender, power, and global governance. Her research interests span gender in international security, the UN Women, Peace and Security Agenda, peacebuilding, and intersectionality. She is driven by a commitment to conducting research that generates tangible, real‑world impact.
The Meaning Behind Our Logo
Our logo’s four sides are concave: they draw inward, representing the space where people and perspectives meet.
This is what inclusive evaluation achieves: common spaces for people to share experiences, be heard and learn from each other. The shape doesn’t project outward; it draws people in. That is what we aim to do — bring organisations, communities and participants together in meaningful dialogue.
Our logo is a reminder of the dedicated, skilled work needed to create spaces for oft-excluded groups to shape research and decision-making. It reflects our commitment to draw people together to create positive social change.
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.