Eliza is an independent evaluation consultant and researcher specialising in the generation and use of robust evidence to improve higher education policy, with a particular focus on equality in access and participation.

Previously, Eliza was Deputy Chief Executive of the Centre for Transforming Access and Student Outcomes (TASO), England’s first ‘what works’  centre for higher education. She established TASO’s research programme and led a team delivering a wide-ranging portfolio of research, including some of the UK’s most ambitious experimental and quasi-experimental evaluations to improve university access and student outcomes.

Before TASO, Eliza was a Senior Advisor at the Behavioural Insights Team, where she designed and delivered research projects aimed at reducing educational inequality. She also worked in higher education policy for the Russell Group, leading work on access and student success across member universities.

Eliza holds an MSci in Physics from Imperial College London and a PhD in Behavioural Public Policy from University College London, where she was part of the Behavioural Insights Team’s scholarship programme.