Speakers

Sarah Baillie is a Manager at Social Finance. She was the performance manager of MHEP from 2021 to 2022. She now oversees the MHEP team and supports the current performance manager, Madeline Goldie. As well as her role on MHEP she has been involved in wider work with employment and skills projects at Social Finance including overseeing the IPSGrow performance management tool before its redevelopment completed earlier this year. Prior to working at Social Finance, Sarah has worked, both in New Zealand and the UK, on measuring the impact of, and supporting the funding and delivery of, a wide range of services for those with multiple disadvantages.

Eleanor leads the research agenda of the GO Lab. Her research focuses on innovations in social policy and outcomes-based commissioning. She joined the Blavatnik School of Government in 2016 having previously studied at the Universities of Cambridge and Sheffield. Eleanor’s doctoral research investigated the application of outcomes-based commissioning within the UK Government’s welfare-to-work programmes.

Before moving to Oxford Eleanor gained experience from the policy-maker perspective working as an advisor for the Social Investment and Finance Team in the UK’s Cabinet Office and through collaborative research projects with the Department for Work and Pensions. Her work has been published in a range of journals including Social Policy and Administration and Journal of Social Policy.

Emily Hulse is a Research Associate at the Government Outcomes Lab, at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. She works with the UK government to evaluate the Mental Health and Employment Partnership, outcomes-based financing and impact bonds. She is the project lead for one longitudinal in-depth SIB evaluation and is particularly passionate about innovations that increase funding for health programs.

Prior to Oxford, Emily conducted research as an academic at the Health Economics Unit, Centre for Health Policy and the Nossal Institute for Global Health within the University of Melbourne. She also has experience completing Health Technology Assessments for the Australian Department of Health and PBAC, as well as a consultant for WHO’s Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research. She has also briefly worked for the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences.

Emily has a Bachelor of Biomedical Science from Monash University and a Master of Public Health from the University of Melbourne and is working towards her DPhil in Population Health (Health Economics) at the University of Oxford. Her Master’s thesis was on Social Impact Bonds financing chronic disease programs, which was published in BMJ Global Health. She was awarded a Global Scholars Award in 2018 at the University of Melbourne for academic merit and commitment to global studies. Emily’s work has been published in a variety of high-impact journals including the BMJ Global Health, BMC Public Health, Preventing Chronic Disease, EClinicalMedicine (Part of The Lancet), International Journal for Equity in Health, and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health in addition to high-level technical reports.

Julia has over 10 years of experience of mental health employment support delivery both in an NHS setting and a social enterprise, working with those referred from primary and secondary. She was trained in the IPS approach by Miles Rinaldi and recovery principles by Dr Rachel Perkins. As a Lead Community Partner for 18 months, she led a team of 5 disability specialists across Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex to support DWP’s culture shift towards supporting those with disabilities or health conditions more holistically. She is passionate about supporting teams to deliver consistently high quality IPS services to empower people to achieve their vocational goals as a key route to recovery of their life.

Oli Jacobs has served as CEO of Twining Enterprise (mental health and employment charity) since 2017. He has extensive senior management experience in the third sector including at Save the Children and TimeBank and serves on the Board of Directors of ERSA (Employability Related Support Association). Oli has an MBA from University of Nottingham and studied Strategic Perspectives in Not for Profit Management at Harvard Business School.