Meg Goodman

Office Manager and Project Administrator

Meg Goodman is EfC’s first point of contact, running the office and finances on a day to day basis but also providing administrative and research support to a range of projects and research contracts undertaken by EfC.   She is currently, for example, providing support to colleagues on the thematic evaluation on primary education for Plan International and on several library-related projects. She is also EfC's Company Secretary.

Meg joined EfC in 1999 to work as project manager on the final stages of the British Books for Managers (BBM) scheme, a £1.5m project funded by the Department for International Development (DFID) and managed by EfC.  She was responsible for ensuring the routine operation of BBM and managing the project budget including its winding-up.  This was intended to be a short-term job for Meg but as other opportunities arose she stayed with EfC, working as a researcher on a sexual health information project, and then, in 2002-4, as Project Administrator on LEAP, the Legal education in Albania programme, funded by the World Bank and involving a consortium of three London universities, a public law centre in Greece and twinned with the Law Faculty of the University of Tirana. 

Prior to joining EfC, Meg’s background was in the voluntary (NGO), charitable sector where her skills lay in health and social policy analysis, research and information provision.  From 1990 to 1999, she was Health Policy Officer at the Maternity Alliance, responsible for identifying policy gaps and for formulating an appropriate response, in concert with the Alliance’s 70 or so member organisations.  Much of her work involved networking, participation in and servicing of committees and steering groups and organising conferences and meetings.  During the 1980s, she was a researcher on self-help organisations and reproductive health counselling services at the Policy Studies Institute and then an Information Retrieval Officer at the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux, a post which involved research, training and the development and implementation of case-recording systems for bureaux.  Her first job was as General Information Officer with the Family Planning Association, running a resource centre and providing research and information services to the general public and professionals.

Meg contributes her extensive experience of research practice to EfC research and evaluation projects.  She undertakes telephone interviews, assists in the facilitation of focus groups and makes administrative arrangements, as necessary.  She also contributes to EfC’s quality assurance procedures by copy editing reports and documents.