Rebecca Allinson
Managing Partner
Rebecca Allinson is a Managing Partner at Technopolis and is responsible for projects/work in the field of International, European and UK public policy, specifically related to Education, Research, Innovation and Enterprise Policy This includes research, project management and evaluation. Rebecca has both evaluated and taught evaluation theory and practice. Rebecca’s work in the last few years has concentrated on issues of the interplay between education, research and innovation. Rebecca works for a number of key international organisations including the European Commission, UNESCO, MCF as well as many national government departments with responsibility for education, enterprise and international development (FCDO). Studies include issues of the STI systems, entrepreneurial university, entrepreneurship skills, university business cooperation, SME mobility schemes, business support, learning, skills and competences.
Current and recent work includes the evaluation of the leadership in innovation fellowship for the Royal Academy of Engineering, a study on the contribution of higher education partnerships to the SDGs (British Council), moderator for the series of HEInnovate webinars (DG EAC), a study on data (including digital) skills needs for higher education researchers (ESRC) , the evaluation of an evidence centre for widening participation in HE (OfS), and support for the work of the knowledge ecosystems on the Higher Education Transformation Agenda (DG RTD). Rebecca is also currently managing a £1.6 million evaluation for the FCDO, UK for SPHEIR – strategic partnerships in higher education and innovation reform. Past work also includes the evaluation of the EIT (DG EAC), the mid-term evaluation of Erasmus plus and the mid-term evaluation of MSCA (DG EAC)
Rebecca has managed a number of key large-scale projects including benchmarking e-business policies across EC and EFTA countries, the impact evaluation of the Safer Internet programme, the development of statistical indicators for benchmarking the information society, study on the use of credits in EU-US cooperation.
Rebecca is also working with Technopolis’s emerging markets group and is Director for all of the projects in the areas of higher education and skills development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Recent studies in this regard include the evaluation of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences and the evaluation of the Anzisha Prize for the African Leadership Academy in South Africa.
Rebecca is primarily a project manager and qualitative practitioner with over 20 years experience in setting up evaluations and using techniques such as logic models, interviews, focus groups, case studies and analysis and reporting.
Before joining Technopolis Group, she worked as a Senior Research Manager at ECOTEC Research and Consulting Ltd. Rebecca holds a Masters in Silicon Chemistry from the University of Bordeaux and a BSc (Hons) Biological Chemistry from King’s College London. She is fluent in English & French.
