Meet Our Team
We are powered by a passionate team of connectors, creatives and collaborators. We bring together a mix of skills and experiences, spanning research, improvement, community engagement and lived experience, to help ideas grow and partnerships thrive. Get to know the people behind the work, and how we can support you to make change happen.
Anna Badley
Co-Founder and Lead
Having established Co-Lab in 2020, Anna has grown Co-Lab into a leading unit in helping health, social and community partners to generate evidence that is rapid, accessible and pragmatic. Anna brings significant experience at a strategic level with expertise in delivering multi-organisational and regional evaluations with national impact.
Jeni Malpass
Evaluation Specialist and Research Lead
Jeni has substantial expertise in working with community organisations to design and deliver evaluations and demonstrate the significant impact of Community, Voluntary and Social Enterprises. She is also a regional leader in Peer Research, establishing regional networks and driving an agenda of peer-led research.
Emily Williams
Communications Officer
Emily is an experienced communications officer who specialises in graphic design and generating accessible content.
Ciarán Lowe
Community Research and Evaluation Officer
Ciaran leads our training and evaluation projects working closely with communities and health and social care partners.
Dr Sarah Williams
Co-Founder, Director of Research and Improvement
With over 25 years of experience in health and social care research, Sarah brings significant expertise to the Co-Lab team. Sarah is a recognised national leader in community health and social care research, driving forward the national strategic agenda for research, evaluation and evidence in community settings.
Meet the Founders
“In 2020, we were asked to conduct an evaluation of the Organisations response to COVID 19. Working closely with our partners at RREAL, UCL we learnt Rapid Evaluation methodology. These methods were transformative and allowed us to deliver evaluation at pace, keeping up with the fast-moving health, social and community settings - we were able to make real-time recommendations. The methods were so accessible that not only did we engage a huge number of people in our work, we left a legacy of evaluation capability. We realised that there was a different way of doing things, that we could de-mystify evaluations making it easy for people to demonstrate the impact of their work”
Anna and Sarah, Founders of Co-Lab