Tanyah Hameed - Research and Policy Associate

Tanyah Hameed is currently a Research and Policy Associate at the Government Outcomes Lab, a research centre at the University of Oxford. She works with the UK government to research innovations in social policy (e.g. outcomes based financing and impact bonds), addressing complex and costly social problems. She is particularly interested in the potential role that cross sector collaborations and social impact investment play in these emerging policy tools, within both higher income and lower middle income countries. 

Her work seeks to build evidence around these new policy tools and inform government decision-making around public service delivery and financing. Using mixed methods, her research projects range across policy areas such as children's social care, mental health and employment, COVID-19 adaptation, refugee support, and public sector reform. She leads on designing and conducting evaluations on UK government programmes, and developing transparent standardised data reporting. She also helps disseminate research to diverse international audiences, and participates in policy dialogue with central and local governments in the UK and beyond.

Tanyah has 5+ years of experience working in public policy research and international development across the UK, Pakistan (Ministry of Planning, Development and Reform; Plan International; Ministry of Commerce) and the UN (UNDP Pakistan; World Food Programme Headquarters). She holds an MPhil in Comparative Social Policy from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and a BS in Economics from the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) Pakistan where she was a sliver medallist. In her spare time, she serves as a trustee for a local charity, Oxfordshire Community and Voluntary Action (OCVA), which supports the VCSE sector across Oxfordshire.

tanyah.hameed@bsg.ox.ac.uk