Crescenzo Pinto

Crescenzo is currently working as a Senior Researcher in the Health Policy Team, with responsibility for the day-to-day management of multiple concurrent projects. Crescenzo supports and leads the development of research tools and data collection instruments. He has a leading role in the daily management of fieldwork and in the analysis of data. He is also responsible for the delivery of report and proposal sections, and he has co-authored several reports and proposals.

In his role as a Senior Researcher, as well as in previous roles, Crescenzo conducted several qualitative interviews with potentially vulnerable participants (such as people who gamble, people who use drugs, carers, patients, and bereaved people) and on a number of sensitive subjects (including, for example, gambling, drug abuse, bereavement and grief, pain, mental health, loneliness, and cancer). Crescenzo also has experience of moderating focus groups, conducting evidence reviews, and using a range of qualitative and quantitative approaches. More recently, he has worked on a qualitative study on the consequences of gambling, an evidence review on the different models of disability and their implications for data collection, and a mixed-methods study on drug use in minority ethnic groups.

In addition to his research work at NatCen, Crescenzo is a PhD candidate at the University of Maastricht (NL), Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Department of Health, Ethics and Society, where he is working on research on evidence and policymaking in health in the context of the potential medical legalisation of psychedelics (supervisors: Prof Bart Penders, Prof David Shaw and Dr Tehseen Noorani).