Description: Before joining the Young Foundation Marcia was a Senior Evaluation and Research Analyst at the Big Lottery Fund and was responsible for evaluating the impact of BIG's funding streams. Previously Marcia led the first ever UK-wide Inquiry into Self-harm among Young People. This influential Inquiry identified and commissioned innovative approaches to react and influence current knowledge, practice and policy in this field. She has also been the Research Manager at Safe in the City, a SRB-funded action research programme established to pilot new ways of preventing youth homelessness in London by working with young people and their families. Marcia has also worked as a researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry on a longitudinal examination of outcomes for English and Romanian Adoptees; at the Institute of Education examining the impact of parents on their children's employability; and has worked freelance as a consultant for PACE helping them evaluate the effectiveness of a therapeutic group work approach to HIV prevention with gay men in North London.Marcia holds a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in developmental psychology from the Institute of Education and the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, respectively.
