Associates

When projects require it, our project teams are enhanced by the expertise of Associate Consultants.

Jane Owens has worked as an Associate with York Consulting over the last few years. Here she shares her views on her work for the company:

I have been working as a York Consulting Associate since 2002, having worked for the company full-time for the previous two years. Before joining York Consulting I had worked for over twenty years in a variety of public and voluntary sector organisations supporting young people. Working as an Associate has enabled me to continue to use this knowledge and expertise within national studies and to keep up-to-date on recent developments in youth support services in particular.

Over the past five years I have worked in a range of teams, each led by different York Consulting consultants. In each case, the project manager has brought her/his team together to ensure that we have all been fully briefed and have the opportunity to ask questions and clarify roles and details. This liaison continues throughout each project and culminates in report writing – this tends to involve writing a report on the geographical area that I have been working in or on a particular theme that I have taken the lead on. For example, an Aimhigher Costings Study included case studies in some of the English regions – my initial focus was Herefordshire & Worcestershire followed by Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole. In each case, I arranged a series of face-to-face consultations with local stakeholders and staff and then analysed their responses to produce a costings report on each area.

I also worked as a York Consulting associate on the national evaluation of Targeted Youth Support, working with Hampshire and Gateshead to identify how they implemented this work and the impact it was having upon their clients.