Oliver Hamer
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Edge Hill University
Oliver is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow within the Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit (EPA Unit) at Edge Hill University. An experienced researcher, Oliver has five years of postdoctoral evaluation experience (PhD awarded in 2020), contributing to more than 20 evaluation projects across local authorities, the charity sector, the education sector, the NHS, and the NIHR (regionally, nationally, and internationally). He has extensive experience of project managing programme evaluations, using a range of approaches and methods.
Having spent time working for local authority, Oliver is passionate about supporting public health practitioners to embed evaluation within programmes/ services to support learning and evidence impact. His experience across the public sector enables him to bring a real-world perspective to evaluation, offering practical and innovative approaches to evidencing impact, especially for those who face challenges with conventional methods.
