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Name	Title	Team	Get in touch	Bio
Jane Scott	Research fellow			Bio
Nadine Fowler	Research Associate	Research	0141 444 8500	Bio
Robert Porter	Research Associate	Research	0141 444 8549	Bio
Sharon McGregor	Research Associate	Consultancy	0141 444 8500	Bio
Leanne McIver	Research Associate	Research	0141 444 8543	Bio
Brandi Lee Lough Dennell	Research Associate	Improving Protection and Permanence	0141 444 8549	Bio
Mihaela Manole	Research and Evaluation Associate	Research	0141 444 8570	Bio
Emma Young	Research and Evaluation Associate	Research	0141 444 8549	Bio
Ruth Sills	Protecting Children Lead	Protecting Children	0141 444 8500	Bio
Joe McGinty	Protecting Children Consultant	Improving Protection and Permanence		Bio
Euan Currie	Protecting Children Consultant	Protecting Children Team		Bio
Maria Flores-McGinty	Projects and Systems Adminsitrator	Programme Management Office	0141 444 8539	Bio
Catherine Moody	Project Coordinator	Programme Management Office	0141 444 8256	Bio
Susan Reid	Project Co-ordinator			Bio
Claire Taylor	Programme and Planning Lead	Programme Management Office	0141 444 8581	Bio
Katherine Anderson	Policy Implementation lead			Bio
Kate MacKinnon	Policy Associate	Policy	0141 444 8504	Bio
Micky Anderson	Permanence Team Data Analyst	Permanence	0141 444 8533	Bio
Carolann Anderson	Permanence Data Analyst	Permanence	0141 444 8569	Bio
Linda Davidson	Permanence Consultant	Permanence	0141 444 8558	Bio

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Robert is a psychology turned legal researcher. He provides evaluation and research to the Permanence and Care Team, as well as working on other social research projects for CELCIS. Due to defend his PhD in law soon, Robert enjoys doing applied research in environments with a real-world impact. Outside of work, Robert runs the Bantuan Coffee Foundation.

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Sharon joined the CELCIS redress team as a Research Associate to work on the consultation with victims and survivors of historic child abuse in Scotland. Previously, she worked on various university and NHS funded research projects, and on research connected with the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry to help chart the development of care services in Scotland between 1900 and 2014. Sharon is also a graduate member of the British Psychological Society with an interest in the psychology of coaching. In her spare time, Sharon can often be found on the side-lines watching her son and husband playing rugby or supporting her national side at Murrayfield or on TV!

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Leanne comes from a background in education and health services research and evaluation. She was awarded the PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies in 2016, for her research on educational farm visits for primary school children. Leanne is part of the Evidence and Innovation Hub at CELCIS. Outside of work, she enjoys attending gigs and science fiction conventions, and often travels around the UK for these.

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Social anthropologist Brandi Lee is a research associate in our Evidence and Innovation Hub. With a background in the youth work sector, she is passionate about working alongside public bodies to use research evidence to inform and improve policy and practice. Her work is driven by children and young people's rights, their experiences of services, and sense of identity and belonging. When not working you'll find her outdoors with her wife and child, either walking in the woods or growing food in their garden.

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Mihaela came to work in Scotland via her homeland of Romania, and Vienna, and she brings a decade's experience working on policy and research projects with Save the Children and the Agency for Fundamental Rights. At CELCIS she will support the Neglect Programme by developing effective data and empirical evidence systems to measure progress. She's been blown away by the friendliness of Glaswegians, and cant wait to explore more of Scotland, but she won't be inviting new friends for dinner - she literally can't boil an egg.

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Emma uses the analytical skills she developed as a criminology student in the wide range of large exploratory research projects, and specific service and programme evaluations CELCIS is involved in. She enjoys working alongside all kinds of professionals to evidence and showcase good practice for looked after children and young people. She loves to travel and escapes to foreign lands as much as she can.

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Joe comes to CELCIS with a background of almost 30 years in local authority work with children, young people and families, including youth work, groupwork, child protection practice and training. He is particularly interested in supporting the development of best practice in child protection and safeguarding and use of evidence and innovation to achieve positive change. A keen music fan and gig goer who also enjoys playing guitar and gigging himself, as well as exploring the great outdoors – when the Scottish weather permits!

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Cat is a Project Coordinator working across different areas of work in CELCIS. She supports programme governance as well as helps to coordinate projects such as the PACE Collaborative, and the CYC-Net 2021 Conference. In her free time Cat enjoys making all sorts at her pottery club.

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Katherine is the Policy Implementation Lead at CELCIS.

She has worked in various policy roles in the third and public sector, including with Children in Scotland and Edinburgh Voluntary Organisations Council (EVOC), alongside a role as the Third Sector Advisor to the Getting it Right for Every Child (GIRFEC) team at Scottish Government.

Her background is in youth work, having changed careers after gaining a degree in Immunology. Prior to working in policy, Katherine worked with children and young people in different roles, in particular a project with Barnardo’s to support care experienced young people into employment or further education.

Katherine has a master’s degree in Community Education where she researched care experience and employment opportunities.

When not working, she enjoys anything in the outdoors: going up Munro’s, swimming and going along to a very muddy outside exercise class every week.

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With a background in applied social research, higher education strategic planning and performance monitoring, and social work information system implementation, Micky is our resident Data Analyst. Never shy of a mental or physical challenge, he enjoys grappling with data-related issues faced by CELCIS and partner organisations as we seek to evidence improvement. A committed all-weather cyclist, Micky also loves to island hop by sea kayak and endurance running.

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Carolann has a truly analytical mind. She uses her logical, numerical skills to produce easily accessible data and visuals as baseline to improve systems supporting vulnerable children. Every point on one of her graphs represents a real child, on his or her journey towards a permanent home. Carolann applies her analytical mind and sense of order to everything, including the kitchen sink. Every item on her desk and in her wardrobe is lined up in perfect order, and she simply doesn't do crossed lines on her data charts.

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As a social worker, family support manager and team leader, Linda is passionate about the practical application of child development and early year's research in supporting our understanding and decision making for children. Linda loves gardening, growing her own food and making preserves to share with family and friends.

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