People in R and E
David Turner took up the position of Director, Research and Evaluation with the Ministry of Justice in December 2004. David is responsible for overseeing the evaluation and statistical analysis of a broad research programme - a position similar to that he held with the Department of Labour for the previous 10 years.
Prior to that, he worked in the United States for the General Accounting Office, the agency with legislative responsibility for auditing and evaluating federal government programmes. David is active in the Australian Evaluation Society, and is the chair of its Social Ethics and Standards Committee. He says his move to Justice presents an exciting opportunity.
Dr Robin Peace has recently left the Ministry of Social Development’s Centre for Social Research and Evaluation to join the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work at Massey University as an associate professor based at the Wellington campus.
Robin will lead the development of a new postgraduate diploma in social policy evaluation practice that will support capacity and capability building in evaluation across sectors. This initiative involves building close working relationships with a range of New Zealand and overseas universities, evaluation associations, central and local government, and private research agencies and with coordinating groups such as SPEaR and BRCSS.
