Sarah Cheesbrough
Director of the Policy Research Centre
Sarah Cheesbrough re-joined the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) in January 2025 as Director of its Policy Research Centre. In this role, she is responsible for leading a team of talented researchers, delivering a variety of mixed methods research in a fast-paced environment, in order to respond to and help inform policy.
She was previously Director of the Communities team at IFF Research, a social and market research agency. Prior to that, she has held leadership roles at Thinks Insight & Strategy and Verian UK, and at NatCen previously, as Director of its Communities, Work and Income team.