Mark Liddle Email & Phone Number

Managing Director of ARCS Limited, and former Head of Research and Evaluation Division at Nacro, the social justice charity.I have over 25 years’ social research experience, and have been involved in the design, management and delivery of over 200 research and evaluation projects since the early 1990s. These projects have been secured on the open market after competitive tendering exercises, and clients have included a wide range of public, voluntary and private sector organisations. Projects have focused on topic areas including youth offending, vulnerable young people, antisocial behaviour, community safety, social inclusion, mental health, economic regeneration, the resettlement of offenders, community development, and partnership working. Most recently, I have been involved in complex evaluations involving marginalised and hard-to-reach groups, usually commissioned by government or third sector organisations. I have developed strong links with professional research networks over the last two decades, and my organisation enjoys strong relationships with universities and other academic research organisations, local and national Government departments, private sector companies, and voluntary, practitioner and policy organisations both within and outside the UK. My current research interests include: • identity, desistance, and processes of change • measuring soft outcomes or “distance travelled” in evaluating interventions with vulnerable groups • developing “cost-benefit timelines” for individuals and groups • assessing the impact of whole systems interventions to address social problems • masculinity and violence • masculinity and child sexual abuse • community safety and public health