Martha is a Research Fellow within CPEC at LSE. She currently specialises in evaluations of health and social care programmes.

Martha is a mixed-methods researcher and her professional background has spanned various areas of the non-profit sector. Before joining CPEC in 2023, she specialised in domestic abuse as a Research Manager at SafeLives, and before that in social research and evaluations as a Researcher/Consultant at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations.
 
Martha holds a BA degree in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies from Newcastle University. She spent five years abroad working in human rights in Costa Rica, Brazil, Thailand and Palestine, among other countries, before settling in London in 2021. She also has an Erasmus Mundus Joint MA in Women’s and Gender Studies from the University of Granada and the University of York, and used photography and ethnography in her final dissertation exploring the gendered experience of grief. She is particularly interested in investigating how intersecting inequalities are experienced and negotiated by marginalised groups around the world. She enjoys applying innovative methodologies and creative practice in research.
 
Martha is currently collaborating on the SOCRATES programme as part of a cross-university team that is delivering rapid evaluations of social care innovations and service developments. She is also working on the national evaluation of the Adult Social Care Technology Fund as part of the NIHR’s Policy Innovation and Evaluation Research Unit (PIRU).