Karen has over 20 years of experience in senior/executive roles in social research and evaluation, gained in Australia (the Social Research Centre in Melbourne), the UK (Loughborough University and BMG Research), and Saudi Arabia (National Center for Social Studies, Riyadh).
A qualitative specialist, Karen's experience includes leading research studies and evaluations for government, universities, private companies and the not-for-profit sector, as well as strategic planning, leadership and management tasks.
Karen's expertise covers all aspects of social research from design to delivery across a wide range of public and social policy areas such as employment, welfare, education, disability, health, family violence, marginalised young people and other 'at risk' groups.
Karen has led 100s of research projects over her career - a few select examples are provided below:
Karen has also conducted 100s of focus groups, in-depth interviews and cognitive interviews covering a broad range of subjects (such as disability, health, policing, safety, violence, drug misuse and unemployment) and engaging with a wide variety of stakeholder groups from the general public to senior policy officials.
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