Cathy Hearn
Associate Director
Cathy is an Associate Director at Renaisi Innovation. She leads a diverse portfolio of research, evaluation and learning partnerships.
Cathy’s professional background brings together service delivery and design experience with mixed methods evaluation and research training. She specialises in developmental evaluation and learning partnerships - generating insights and learnings that feed into the ongoing design and evolution of social change work. Her methodological skillset spans a range of research and evaluation methodologies, including participatory and creative qualitative approaches, survey design and validation, and quantitative data visualisation.
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.
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. In her previous role at Renaisi, Cathy has worked with organisations including BBC Children in Need, Greater London Authority, Right to Succeed, AllChild and Sport England.
