Contributors

This website and the included resources were developed by the Better Start Bradford Innovation Hub (BSBIH) team, now the Family Inequalities Research for Prevention and Early Intervention (FaiR) team, part of the Born in Bradford research programme. The work was made possible by the Better Start Bradford programme, funded by the National Lottery Community Fund as part of the A Better Start programme (2015-2025), and the National Institute for Health and Care Research Yorkshire and Humber Applied Research Collaborative.

Special thanks go to all members of the BSBIH and BSB teams past and present, the BSB Commissioning Advisory Group and Partnership Board, the delivery teams of the BSB projects, and the BSBIH Community Research Advisory Group who helped shape this work.

Cara Hammond

Evaluation Facilitator, BSBIH (2022-2025)

Cara project managed the development of the FaIR Evaluation Framework, producing and adapting much of the content during 2025. Bringing together existing tools and resources developed by the BSBIH as well as new work produced by the team to create this site.

Cara had previously worked as Evaluation Facilitator, working closely with Better Start Bradford commissioned projects, leading on the delivery of monitoring reports and implementation evaluations.

Dr Sara Ahern

FaIR Programme Manager (previously BSBIH)

Sara managed the BSBIH from 2020 to 2025, coordinating all of the monitoring and evaluation work across the programme. She worked alongside BSBIH colleagues, the BSB team, and delivery partners to develop many of the processes and tools contained within the framework.

Sara continues to manage the FaIR team and delivers training and workshops around the evaluation framework.

sara.ahern@bthft.nhs.uk

Prof Josie Dickerson

FaIR Programme Director (previously BSBIH)

Josie established and led the BSBIH between 2015 and 2025, developing the overall programme’s evaluation approach which forms the basis of the FaIR Evaluation Framework. She continues to lead the FaIR team with a focus on prevention and early intervention research.

Dr Rachael Baum

Senior Research Fellow, BIRU and FaIR

Rachael led the evaluation work completed by Bradford Inequalities Research Unit (now part of FaIR) for the Reducing Inequalities in City programme.

Dr Kate Mooney

Assistant Professor, University of York and BSBIH

Kate led the design and delivery of a number of effectiveness evaluations across the programme and continues this work with a focus on the long term outcomes for families.

Dr Alison Ellwood

Research Fellow, BSBIH (2022-2024)

Alison is an experienced qualitative researcher and led and supported a number of qualitative evaluations across the programme.

Kelis Durkin and Sanah Majeed

Research and Implementation Assistants, FaIR 2025-2026

Kelis and Sanah supported the development of visuals and performed final edits for the website.

Foundations

We also acknowledge the valuable work of the Early Intervention Foundation (now Foundations) on evaluation and evidence ratings that was drawn on in the early development of our framework.