Lorraine Lanceley is a Principal Researcher at Inclusion, with over eight years experience in working on and project managing quantitative and qualitative research.

Lorraine’s main areas of specialism are welfare reform and benefit delivery, particularly in relation to single parents and people who have been unemployed for long periods of time.

Lorraine is currently working on a number of Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) evaluations. These include evaluating the effect of DWP Commissioning on specialist disability employment programmes and the Work Programme.

Since joining Inclusion, Lorraine has also been involved in a number of evaluations of lone parents affected by Lone Parent Obligations. She is currently working on the second wave of a longitudinal survey of lone parents affected by Lone Parent Obligations. In 2009/10 Lorraine project managed a large-scale qualitative evaluation of In Work Credit for DWP, which involved over 100 in-depth interviews with lone parents. Lorraine has also managed the Learning and Skills Council’s evaluation to track the destinations of young parents funded by Care to Learn in 2006/07 and 2007/08.

Prior to joining Inclusion, Lorraine worked on a number of large-scale quantitative surveys at BMRB Social Research. She also spent 18 months working at the Home Office, analysing and reporting findings from the British Crime Survey. Lorraine has extensive experience of SPSS for data analysis and she is proficient in R.

Research interests and expertise:

• Welfare reform and benefit delivery, particularly in relation to single parents and people who have been unemployed for long periods of time
• Quantitative research methods