Tanyah Hameed
Tanyah is a Manager at Social Finance. She leads on multiple learning partnership and research projects within Social Finance, and is the strategy lead for the employment and skills practice. She brings a decade of experience across public policy research and evaluation, social impact consulting, and social outcomes contracts.
Tanyah joined Social Finance in 2022, bringing insights from project management and public policy research across academia (Government Outcomes Lab at the University of Oxford), government (Government of Pakistan) and international development (UNDP Pakistan, World Food Programme Headquarters) with a particular focus on using mixed methods research and evaluation. Her work has been published in academic journals, as well as policy reports and evaluation reports for UK government and the UN.
Most recently, Tanyah has managed and delivered projects at Social Finance aimed at supporting place-based and systems change approaches to youth unemployment, co-producing evidence for advocacy services for people with learning disabilities & autistic people, and supporting refugees into employment and housing. She has also developed a funding strategy and best practice around improving outcomes for care workers and costed system failure in supporting individuals with multiple disadvantages.She holds an MPhil in Comparative Social Policy from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and a BS in Economics from the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) Pakistan where she was a silver medallist. In her spare time, she serves as a trustee for a local charity, Oxfordshire Community and Voluntary Action (OCVA), which supports the VCSE sector across Oxfordshire.