Independent evaluation, statistics and research design for public services and funded programmes.

Led by Dr Ashley Bennett, Chartered Psychologist and PhD-level statistician.

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Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol)British Psychological Society
Deputy Chair, university faculty research-ethics panel

About the practice

DBA Consultants helps public bodies, charities, NHS organisations and research teams find out whether what they do works. We design and run evaluations, build the statistics behind trials and service reviews, write the quantitative sections of funding bids, and train in-house teams to collect and use their own data.

The practice is led by Dr Ashley Bennett, statistician on an NHS England-funded randomised controlled trial and an NHS service evaluation, methodologist on NIHR programme bids worth over £2m, and Deputy Chair of a university research-ethics panel.

About Ashley

Services

All services

Programme and service evaluation
For lottery-funded partnerships, councils, NHS trusts and charities.
Trial and study statistics
For NHS research teams, universities and NIHR-funded studies.
Survey design and analysis
For public-health teams, membership bodies and service providers.
Data analysis for commissioning and funding bids
For children's and youth services, NHS services and VCS organisations.
Research design and bid support
For universities, NHS research departments and consultancies bidding for frameworks.
Ethics, governance and data protection
For universities, service providers and evaluation teams needing a governance framework.

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Training and capability building. Analyst clinics, methods and statistics training from introductory to Level 7, and reusable templates and guidance that in-house teams can maintain after the contract ends.

Software: SPSS (advanced), R and Excel, with Microsoft 365 and secure data handling.