Katya Brooks, Senior Consultant

Email: k.brooks@cep.co.uk

Katya is a Senior Consultant at CEP.  Over the last ten years she has built extensive experience of social research and project management within the third sector and academia. She holds a PhD in Sociology and an MA in Sociological Research Methods from the University of Essex. Throughout her career she has sought to pursue her interests in social and environmental justice, education, and community-based participatory and reflexive approaches to research.  Her doctoral thesis entitled, ‘Considering Cultural Collision: Education and the Innu of Labrador’, draws on five months’ ethnographic fieldwork to investigate the impact of settler-colonial policies on the Innu community of Sheshatshiu in Labrador, Canada.

She is an experienced teacher and holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching Practice, is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and has taught social research methods to postgraduate level at the University of Essex and Institute of Commonwealth Studies (University of London), where she is currently a Research Associate. 

Katya’s previous positions include Research and Policy Co-ordinator at IARS (Independent Academic Research Studies) – a social justice focused research think-tank and charity – which involved designing and conducting action research, monitoring and evaluation, and policy analysis for publications, campaigns and policy responses, and delivering research methods training. As Project Manager for Community Service Volunteers’ (CSV) employee volunteering team she brokered partnerships between voluntary and community organisations and private sector clients; and her research included an evaluation of Big Society policies, social needs and employee volunteering. In her role as Education Co-ordinator at Survival International, Katya led on developing and delivering educational resources for the indigenous rights charity’s campaigns and outreach.