Ellie Kivinen
Ellie joined Brook Lyndhurst in January 2008 from Hampshire county council’s environment department, where she worked in development control.
Since joining Brook Lyndhurst, she has been involved in a number of projects involving extensive reviews and synthesis of literature, as well as contributed to a number of our fund evaluations.
Evidence review and synthesis
Ellie's work in this area has included our 'Investigating mavens' project for Defra; our evidence review of public attitudes towards novel food technologies for the Food Standards Agency and our synthesis review of household waste prevention research for Defra’s Waste and Resources Evidence Programme; all of which involved selecting, reviewing and synthesising evidence from a wide range of sources.
Evaluation
Ellie has also contributed to our evaluations of Defra’s Environmental Action Fund, Climate Challenge Fund and the Greener Living Fund. These projects have covered the full gamut of fund evaluation including the development of scoring criteria, interviews and case study visits, analysis of final reports, development of standard questions and final data analysis and reporting.
Ellie has a particular interest in sustainability issues around food production and consumption, and in addition to the novel food technologies project she has also been involved in a scenario planning exercise for Defra, which looks at possible futures for waste and resource efficiency within the food chain, as well as reading around the subject of food in her spare time and attempting to grow vegetables in her back garden.
Ellie has a masters degree in Environmental Management from Birkbeck College, University of London (which she passed with distinction). She also has a first class honours degree in Environmental Science from the University of Southampton.
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Dear Sir/Madam
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Time to buy the Sustainable Development Commission?
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