Dr Sophie Collins is a Senior Consultant in the Health and Life Sciences Team. She has designed, contributed to, and led research and evaluation projects across Africa, South Asia, and Eastern Europe, focusing on a range of issues, including public health, safeguarding, education, and social protection. Sophie has a strong track record in evidence-based policy consulting, with a particular expertise in cross-country and comparative evaluations. She is a skilled qualitative researcher and analyst and well versed in designing and leading large-scale mixed methods evaluations. 

Prior to joining Technopolis, Sophie worked as an international development consultant, designing and leading research and evaluation projects of different sizes. For example, Sophie was the Deputy Team Leader on the multi-country evaluation of the FCDO Safeguarding Resource and Support Hub (RSH), which involved strategic leadership of data collection and team management across five regions globally. She has been the research and qualitative lead on several evaluations and programmes, including the FCDO Girl’s Education Challenge (GEC), Third Party Monitory of the Integrated Security Fund (ISF), and the FCDO Cities and Infrastructure for Growth (CIG) project for Sustainable Urban Drainage (SUDS) in Myanmar. She has a strong knowledge of theory-based and realist evaluation methods, including outcome harvesting, process tracing, contribution, and comparative analysis, providing evidence-based recommendations in evaluation and research findings.

Sophie holds a PhD in International Development from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and the University of Sussex. Her research focused on menstrual health policies and programmes in Kenya, centring on global health approaches to wellbeing, human rights, and reproductive health, and involved a comprehensive policy analysis. Sophie has a Master’s degree in Globalisation and Development Studies from Maastricht University (NL) and a Bachelor’s degree in History from the University of York (UK). She is a member of the Centre for Cultures of Reproduction, Technologies and Health (CORTH), and a researcher in the Reconceiving Andrology Network.