Dr Tim Legrand - Head of Research
Simon Legrand - Associate Consultant
Easterly Cox - Director
Dr Sunita Biswas - Scientific Advisor
Lauren Palmer - Associate Consultant
Clare Winter - Associate Consultant
Dr Tim Legrand
Head of Research
Dr Tim Legrand is a social policy research specialist, with expertise in the transfer of policies and best-practice from/to overseas. He combines a strong background in qualitative and quantitative research methodology with experience in social welfare and drug and alcohol policy.
As a Research Consultant with Tonic Consultants, Tim has led the research elements of program development for local and central government. With strong experience in research methodology he has delivered robust analysis and recommendations for:
• 2009 Dual Diagnosis: Integrated Care Pathways Essex DAAT & CAMHS
• 2009 Targeted Mental Health in Schools: DCSF
• 2007 Evidence Based Commissioning - Literature Review: Kent DAAT
• 2007 Young people and substance misuse mapping - Literature Review: Medway DAAT
• 2004 SAFER: Online Harm Reduction (Development Project): KCA Young Person's Drug & Alcohol Service & Kent DAAT
As a policy advisor to industry and the public sector in Australia, he:
• Planned and ran a national political communications campaign for Informed Sources Ltd.
• Provided policy advice and support to the Department for Education, Training and the Arts, Queensland.
As an academic at the University of Birmingham, Tim has conducted social policy research in Canada, the US, Australia, France and Sweden for, inter alia, the Ministry of Justice, The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), the US Senate, and the Australian Department of Employment, Education and Workplace Relations.
Drug and Alcohol Programme and Policy Consultancy
Policy Development and Advisory Experience
• 2008 March – (in progress) Economic and Social Research Council
Institutional Change Research: “From MAFF to DEFRA and Beyond”
• 2008 January – (in progress) Attorney Generals Department, Australia
Policy-Making Project: “Evidence-Based Policy for the 21st Century”:
Advising Attorney Generals on legal policy development
• 2006 August – November University of Stockholm, Sweden
Swedish Research Study: “The Scandinavian Social Welfare Model and Europe”: Policy research study
• 2006 April – August Sciences Po, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, France - EU Research Study: “Endorsing Best-Practice: The OECD and Labour Market Flexibilities”: Policy research study
• 2005 May – August The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Federal Government Study: “The US World of Welfare to Work”: Series of interviews with US presidential advisors
• 2005 March/April National Europe Centre, Canberra, Australia
Research Consultancy Project: “Evidence-Based Policy Learning”: Designing a new institutional structure for a policy unit