Lucy Dean

Lucy has been a Senior Researcher at ScotCen for ten years, delivering quantitative and qualitative research including nationally representative surveys and mixed method projects. She has managed key aspects of several large-scale surveys spanning a range of policy areas including the Scottish Social Attitudes (SSA) survey, the Scottish Health Survey (SHeS) and Realigning Children’s Services (RCS) as well as mixed methods projects, such as Behaviour in Scottish Schools (BiSS) and the Student Finance and Wellbeing Study. She has previously managed quantitative and evaluative projects in the criminal justice and media consumer sector and with families and children, having worked as a Research Manager for the Forward Trust (formerly Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners Trust) and at a media consultancy at the University of Sussex, Sussex Innovation Centre.