Cathy Hearn
Associate Director
Cathy is an Associate Director at Renaisi Innovation’s consultancy team where she focuses on the ways that data and learning can drive the evolution of social change approaches. Working with partners to support and challenge conventions on how power is held, her work explores how social sector professionals can centre relationships and hold complexity in ways that support meaningful change.
About Cathy
Cathy’s professional background brings together service delivery and design experience with mixed methods evaluation and research training. Her work sheds light on the relationships, dynamics and resource flows that make up social systems. She plays close attention to how social sector professionals recognise their power and position, and how power holders can be accountable to the communities they aim to support.
Cathy specialises in generating insights and learnings that feed into the ongoing design and evolution of social change work – a process that is often referred to as a developmental evaluation or learning partnership. Her methodological know-how spans a wide range of research and evaluation methodologies, including participatory and creative qualitative approaches, survey design and validation, and quantitative data visualisation.
Drawing on her professional roots as an educational youth worker, Cathy specialises in youth empowerment and educational inclusion. Alongside these areas, her portfolio covers wellbeing, housing and homelessness. While at Renaisi, Cathy has partnered with organisations including BBC Children in Need, the Greater London Authority, Right to Succeed, AllChild and Sport England.
Cathy’s work at Renaisi Innovation
Cathy holds strategic partnerships and drives business development for Renaisi Innovation’s consultancy team. She leads a portfolio of research, evaluation and learning partnerships.
