Coronavirus (COVID-19): Learning and Evaluation Oversight Group

Overview

The overarching aim of the group is to bring together evidence to inform Scotland’s recovery from COVID-19. The group will run for a period of two years and includes a mix of internal and external members. It is chaired by Professor Linda Bauld (Scottish Government Chief Social Policy Adviser).

Components of the group’s activities will include:

• assessing the scale of the impact of the pandemic across sectors and population groups
• synthesising evaluation evidence relating to policy and community responses to the pandemic, to distil learning for approaches as part of recovery
• identifying key evidence gaps and advising on how these may be addressed
• reviewing international experience including how other countries are approaching their recovery strategies, and identifying implications for the Scottish context

Members

• Linda Bauld, Chief Social Policy Adviser (Scottish Government), and Professor of Public Health (University of Edinburgh) (Chair)
• Andrew Watson, Director for Budget and Sustainability, Scottish Government
• Audrey MacDougall, Chief Researcher, Scottish Government
• Gary Gillespie, Chief Economist, Scottish Government
• Mary McAllan, Director for Covid Recovery, Scottish Government
• Jennie Barugh, Director of Performance and Outcomes, Scottish Government
• Michael Kellet, Director of Population Health, Scottish Government
• Andrew Kerr, Chair of SOLACE
• Claire Sweeney, Director of Place and Wellbeing, Public Health Scotland
• Emily Lynch, Programme Manager for Performance Management and Benchmarking, Improvement Service
• Jim McCormick, Chief Executive, Robertson Trust
• Nick Watson, Professor of Disability Studies, University of Glasgow
• Nicola Dickie, Director of People Policy and Health and Social Care, COSLA
• Patricia Findlay, Professor of Work Employment and Organisation, University of Strathclyde
• Sarah Davidson, Chief Executive, Carnegie UK
• Sarah Skerratt, Chief Executive, RSE
• Steven Marwick, Director, Evaluation Support Scotland
• Kay Tisdall, Professor of Childhood Policy, University of Edinburgh
• Vittal Katikireddi, Professor of Public Health, University of Glasgow
• Tom Lamplugh, Head of Social Policy Unit, Scottish Government (Secretariat for the Covid-19 Learning and Evaluation Group)

Publications

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Learning and Evaluation Oversight Group: terms of reference