Our People

Andrew Rzepa is a Partner at Gallup and leads Gallup’s Public Sector Team in the EMEA region, developing and implementing research-based global projects. Andrew is in charge of Gallup’s international policy and development practice and is responsible for Gallup’s partnerships with United Nations agencies.

This includes the measurement of two Sustainable Development Goal (“SDG”) indicators: one in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and another with the International Labour Organization. Andrew works across a variety of topics including hunger, risk, gender equality, wellbeing and mental health. Before joining Gallup, Mr Rzepa served as a management consultant to FTSE and DAX listed companies across a variety of sectors, working from offices in Brussels, Manchester and Hong Kong.

Katie Alpin is the Interim Chief Executive of the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute. Before stepping up as Interim CEO in February 2020, Katie led Money and Mental Health’s research and policy work, driving improvements across essential services, mental health policy and beyond.

She has also worked as an economist in Westminster and the City, and holds degrees from the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics. In her spare time, Katie runs a Brownie unit for girls aged 7-10 in the heart of Westminster.

Sini Rinne-Kerridge is a Senior Consultant in evaluation and strategic planning, NCVO Charities Evaluation Services.

Sini has worked with a wide range of public and civil society organisations as an evaluator and strategy analyst, planning for and assessing impact and effectiveness of initiatives aimed at improving social and economic wellbeing. She has particular interest and expertise in

evaluating effectiveness and impact of policy advocacy and campaigning work
initiatives aimed at supporting those with ‘multiple and complex’ needs.
Sini has managed a broad spectrum of external evaluations and strategy development work, as well as trained and built capacity of organisations to develop and strengthen their impact practice.

I am a Professor of Health Economics at the Population Health Sciences Institute at Newcastle University. Before that I was in the Business School at Newcastle University and the Centre for Health Economics at Monash University.

My Ph.D. in Economics, from the University of York, investigated inequalities in wellbeing and health. Using quantitative methods to measure and understand inequalities in wellbeing and health has been at the core of my research ever since.

Kelsey J. O’Connor is a Researcher in the Economics of Well-Being with STATEC Research (part of the national statistics office of Luxembourg). He also serves on the Board of Directors for the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies.

Kelsey completed a Ph.D. in economics in 2017 at the University of Southern California, where he worked primarily with professors Richard Easterlin and Jeffrey Nugent. His goal is to contribute research leading ultimately to a redefinition of success in national discourse, thereby supporting systems, both public and private, to promote subjective wellbeing.

Eleanor Bantry White is a senior lecturer in social work at University College Cork, Ireland. Since her doctoral work at Oxford University, she researches social intervention primarily in the context of global population ageing.

Her current work applies mixed methods to examine the impacts of social and physical environments on ageing trajectories and experiences. She is also interested in the role of technology in supporting wellbeing in later life.

Jenny is former Chief Executive of the Mental Health Foundation, a fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and has worked at Homelessness Link, Arts Council England, National Campaign for the Arts and Camden Council.

Assistant Director, Northern Ireland, National Children’s Bureau

As Assistant Director, Deirdre contributes to the management and strategic direction of NCB’s practice development work in Northern Ireland. She also manages NCB’s work on participation and engagement.

Prior to this role, Deidre was Programme Manager for BELONG NI – an inter-agency family support programme that promotes a sense of Belonging amongst Black Minority Ethnic (BME) children and young people in Northern Ireland. She’s also worked for the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and Amnesty International.

Most recently at NCB, Deidre has lead on the transfer of knowledge and practice from the BELONG NI family support programme to its statutory partners in health and education. She also established the Incredible Years Co-ordination Project for Northern Ireland (IYNI) and facilitates the IYNI learning community for practitioners, managers and commissioners.

Deirdre represents Northern Ireland on the European Incredible Years Implementation Network.

Before moving into the children’s sector, Deidre worked in TV and theatre, both as an actor and writer of children’s programmes and plays.

Professor of Social intervention, University of Birmingham

Paul arrived at Birmingham University in 2017 to take up his current post after twenty years at Oxford University where he was Professor of Psycho-social Intervention. His work is methodologically based in three main areas: Systematic Reviews, Trials (many of them RCTs) and Methods Advances in Complex Interventions. Topically, his work is wide ranging and includes Sleep where he originally did his doctorate, Education Interventions for Children, Empowerment Interventions for Women in LMICs, as well as broader policy advice for policymakers.

Senior Lecturer in Evidence Synthesis, University of Exeter

Prof Ruth Garside is a social science researcher specialising in systematic review and evidence synthesis.

She has over 20 years’ experience using quantitative and qualitative research methods to investigate a range of health and social care questions. Her work has informed policy customers including WHO, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the Home Office.

Prof Garside is particularly interested in using a broad range of evidence to investigate complex public health issues and has a particular interest in methods of synthesis for qualitative research.  She coordinates evidence synthesis across the streams of ECEHH research and develops these methods within environment and human health.

• Co-Chair of the Methods Group for Campbell Collaboration.
• Exeter lead for the UK Centre of the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence.
• Convenor for the Cochrane Qualitative and Implementation Methods group.
• Core member of GRADE-CERQual , developing approaches to help researchers and policy makers assess the confidence to place in the findings of Qualitative Evidence Synthesis.  Key paper here.

Systematic reviews exploring interconnections between the environment and health include:

• The impact of gardens for people with dementia in care homes.
• The health and wellbeing impact of school gardens.
• The health and wellbeing impact of participating in conservation activities.
• The risk of acquiring infections from recreational exposure to seawater.

Working with a range of international colleagues, Ruth is part of an evidence-based conservation working group . This project examined the links between conservation activities and human health. It has produced a searchable evidence map of the current evidence base documenting linkages between nature conservation and human health outcomes, more detail is available here.

She is also committed to public and patient involvement in research and founder of HEPE, a network of people from across Cornwall who contribute to research  projects at the Centre.

Professor of Child, Family and Community Health, University of Brighton and Director of BoingBoing

Professor Angie Hart is Professor of Child, Family and Community Health at the University of Brighton and Director of the Centre of Resilience for Social Justice.

She is also Academic Director of the award winning Community University Partnership Programme. As part of that role, she was the Brighton lead for the HEFCE-funded South East Coastal Communities Programme. She undertakes participatory research into inequalities in health and social care in relation to children and families, especially in relation to resilience. Angie teaches on professional courses for health and social care practitioners and coordinates a large group of PhD students working on resilience and inequalities. She currently has a number of resilience-focused research projects under way, many of which are funded under the AHRC/ESRC’s Connected Communities Programme.

Read Professor Hart’s full bio on the University of Brighton website.

Director of Equalities, Innovation and Digital Enterprise in Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) in the NHS.

Dr Jane Moore joined the NHS in May 2022. Previously, Jane worked for Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent CCGs as the Director of Strategy, Planning and Performance in October 2018. Jane has worked in the NHS and local government for over 25 years, mainly in the public health arena and is a Public Health Consultant by background.

Jane has held senior positions in Wales, London and the Midlands. She has extensive experience in system transformation and led a maternity reconfiguration during her time as a Director of Public Health and Quality in London.

Head of Policy, Carnegie UK Trust

Jennifer leads the Wellbeing and Towns team at Carnegie UK Trust. An experienced manager and public policy researcher and analyst, her work in the public and voluntary sector has led to positive change in legislation, policy and practice. A prolific writer she has authored more than 40 reports and 3 books and is a recognised expert on wellbeing, public sector reform and community empowerment.

She holds the degrees of MA (Hons) in Social Policy from the University of Edinburgh and MPhil in Social Science Research from the University of Glasgow. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of the REF 2021 Main Panel for the Social Sciences, a board member at Barony Housing Association and past Convenor of Evaluation Support Scotland.

Wellbeing Director, Business in the Community

In the context of responsible business, the aim of BITC’s Wellbeing Campaign is to create environments where individuals and organisations can be at their best by taking a preventative, whole person, joined up approach to physical, mental, financial and social health.

BITC’s annual survey in partnership with Mercer Marsh captures the state of the nation’s mental health at work and provides employer recommendations to improve line manager capability through the intersectional lenses of age, gender, race and LGBT+.

In partnership with PHE, BITC has co-produced a suite of freely available interconnected toolkits, consolidating the best evidence, resources and employer practice, including the challenging topics of suicide and domestic abuse.

Lecturer in Law at Queens University Belfast

Dr Doran has worked as a consultant writer with the UN Climate Change Convention, going back to the negotiation of the Kyoto Protocol, and has written on the topics of climate change; mindfulness; environmental governance and activism on the island of Ireland; rights of nature, including a recent book on the ‘mindful commons and the attention economy’. He has worked in NGOs and in parliamentary settings on both sides of the border, and at the United Nations.

Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and College Park Professor, University of Maryland School of Public Policy

Carol Graham is Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, College Park Professor at the University of Maryland, and a Senior Scientist at Gallup. She has been a Vice President at Brookings and a Special Advisor to the Vice President of the Inter-American Development Bank.

Graham is the author of numerous books– most recently Happiness for All: Unequal Hopes and Lives in Pursuit of the American Dream (Princeton); The Pursuit of Happiness: An Economy of Well-Being (Brookings); and Happiness Around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires (Oxford) – and has published articles in a range of journals including Science, the World Bank Research Observer, Health Affairs, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Health Economics, and the Journal of Socio-Economics.

Her work has been reviewed in Science, The New Yorker, and the New York Review of Books, among others, and she received a Pioneer Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2017, and a Lifetime Distinguished Scholar award the International Society of Quality of Life Studies in 2018.

She has an A.B. from Princeton, an M.A. from Johns Hopkins and a PhD from Oxford University.

Andrew Oswald is a Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science at the University of Warwick.

His research is principally in applied economics and quantitative social science. It currently includes the empirical study of job satisfaction, human happiness, unemployment, labour productivity, and the influence of diet on psychological well-being.

He serves on the board of editors of Science. Previously at Oxford and the London School of Economics, with spells as Lecturer, Princeton University (1983-4); De Walt Ankeny Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College (1989-91); Jacob Wertheim Fellow, Harvard University (2005); Visiting Fellow, Cornell University (2008); Research Director, IZA Bonn (2011-12); Visiting Fellow, University of Zurich (2016); Visiting Fellow, Yale University (2016). He is an ISI Highly-Cited Researcher.

Visit his website for his latest publications.

Sally McManus is interested in the measurement of mental health and wellbeing. She is a Senior Lecturer in health in the Violence and Society Centre at City, University of London and affiliated with the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), where she’s involved in the national child and adult mental health survey programmes. Her current projects involve secondary analysis of survey data for monitoring inequalities and population trends.

Deputy CEO at NCD alliance.

Fiona is an independent expert advisor on wellbeing, sustainability and public health. Formerly she was Bupa’s Chief Wellbeing and Public Health Officer, responsible for leading global commercial strategy on workplace health and wellbeing, prevention, behaviour change, partnerships, and sustainability.

Before joining Bupa, Fiona was Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Director General in the UK Government responsible for Health Improvement and Health Inequalities followed by being Director of Chronic Disease and Health Promotion at the World Health Organisation.

She is a visiting Professor at UCL, and a Senior Associate at Cambridge University’s Sustainability Leadership Programme, where she teaches regularly, and Chairs the UK Health Forum.

Monder is the Director of Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship (CREME). He has extensive experience of working in, researching and acting as a consultant to small and ethnic minority businesses. He is a leading authority on small business and ethnic minority entrepreneurship research and has published widely on the subject. He serves on a variety of advisory bodies and is a member  of the recently established APPG for BAME Business Owners. Monder is responsible for initiating the annual Ethnic Minority Business Conference in 1998, which has developed into the most important event in the calendar for disseminating policy and research on ethnic minority firms. Monder also holds the positions of Visiting Fellow at the Industrial Relations Research Unit at Warwick University, and Visiting Professor at the University of Turku in Finland. He was named as one of the country’s most influential Asians by the Institute of Asian Professionals and was awarded an OBE in the 2004 New Year Honours List for his services to black and ethnic minority businesses.