Victoria Menzies
| Biography | Vic Menzies is Assistant Professor at the School of Education at Durham University. Her research focuses on the development and evaluation of educational programmes and interventions designed to improve outcomes for children and young people. She has with particular expertise in evaluating early years maths and language programmes, and in developing programmes for delivery at scale. Vic has expertise across a variety of evaluation research methods including randomised controlled trials, regression discontinuity design and use of contribution analysis. Recent research projects include: *Pilot evaluation of the Talking With Tales for Children nursery programme - funded by the Education Endowment Foundation and DfE's Early Years Stronger Practice Hubs *Efficacy trial of the Early Years Conversation Project nursery programme- funded by the Education Endowment Foundation and DfE's Early Years Stronger Practice Hubs *Overarching evaluation of Arts Council England's National Creativity Collaboratives Programme Pilot - funded by Arts Council England and Durham University *Evaluation of the Parents and Children Together (PACT) early years language programme - two trials funded by the Education Endowment Foundation *Evaluation of the Maths Champions nursery CPD programme - two trials funded by the Education Endowment Foundation Vic currently serves as a member of the UK Government's Evaluation and Trial Advisory Panel and in advisory role on a number of other evaluation projects. Vic has more than tens years experience leading on funded education research and evaluation projects. She has a BSc. in Psychology from the University of York and a Masters in Research from Strathclyde University. |
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| Research Interests | Educational Evaluation Experimental Methodology Pilot Trials Development and Evaluation of Mathematical Interventions Effectiveness of Early Years education |
| ResearcherID | D-5211-2014 |