About
DBA Consultants is led by Dr Ashley Bennett, a Chartered Psychologist and PhD-level statistician.
Dr Ashley Bennett CPsychol
Lead consultant, DBA Consultants
Dr Ashley Bennett is a Chartered Psychologist and PhD-level statistician with ten years of applied quantitative work for the NHS, public health, higher education and community services. Ashley leads DBA Consultants, an independent research, evaluation and statistics practice that helps public bodies, charities, NHS organisations and research teams find out whether what they do works. Ashley is 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. The practice designs and runs programme and service evaluations, provides trial and study statistics, designs and analyses surveys, analyses multi-agency data for commissioning and funding bids, supports research design and bid writing, and sets up ethics, governance and data protection frameworks. Ashley also trains in-house teams, from introductory statistics to Level 7, using SPSS (advanced), R and Excel.
Qualifications and roles
- PhD Acupuncture’s efficacy in the treatment of psychological and somatic distress: an exploration of potential mechanisms from an attachment research perspective, 2016
- Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) British Psychological Society
- Deputy Chair, university faculty research-ethics panel 2026
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Short bio 50 words
Dr Ashley Bennett is a Chartered Psychologist and PhD-level statistician with ten years of applied quantitative work for the NHS, public health, higher education and community services. Ashley is statistician on an NHS England-funded randomised controlled trial and an NHS service evaluation, and Deputy Chair of a university research-ethics panel.
Medium bio 144 words
Dr Ashley Bennett is a Chartered Psychologist and PhD-level statistician with ten years of applied quantitative work for the NHS, public health, higher education and community services. Ashley leads DBA Consultants, an independent research, evaluation and statistics practice that helps public bodies, charities, NHS organisations and research teams find out whether what they do works. Ashley is 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. The practice designs and runs programme and service evaluations, provides trial and study statistics, designs and analyses surveys, analyses multi-agency data for commissioning and funding bids, supports research design and bid writing, and sets up ethics, governance and data protection frameworks. Ashley also trains in-house teams, from introductory statistics to Level 7, using SPSS (advanced), R and Excel.