Helen Aston
Research Director
h.aston@nfer.ac.uk, +44 (0)1753 637104
Helen directs sponsored work for national and government, third sector and commercial clients. She managed an extensive programme of reviews on children’s services for the Department for Education-funded Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young People's Services (C4EO).
She has worked on a wide variety of research and evaluations within the fields of children’s services and education using qualitative, quantitative and desk research methods. She also works on NFER’s pupil, parent and teacher omnibus surveys. She enjoys supporting others to develop their research capacity and works on the Local Authority Research Consortium and the Developing Young Researchers project.