Prof. Helen Simons

Helen Simons is Professor of Education and Evaluation at the University of Southampton, UK, and an independent evaluation consultant. For over twenty-five years she has specialised in the practice of case study in evaluation and research contexts for a wide variety of government and non-government agencies.

She has conducted numerous case study evaluations, taught case study research in many universities and organisations in over 20 countries and written widely about the theory and practice of case study research, qualitative methodology, and the ethics of the process. Her teaching and research embody humanistic and democratic principles that aim to make a difference to how we understand workplaces, innovations and change.

She has also played a major role in promoting research ethics nationally and internationally. Helen is an immediate past-president of the United Kingdom Evaluation Society (UKES), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences, UK.