Eleanor is passionate about social justice, science, and access to safe and high quality health, human services and education. Eleanor is an experienced evaluator specialising in participatory realist approaches and has experience in both biomedical research and consumer lead research and enjoys working with the community and stakeholders to make systemic change. Eleanor completed her Masters of Public Health in 2020 specialising in program evaluation. She achieved First Class Honours for her masters thesis: Using Closed Facebook groups for healthcare, a blessing or a curse? A qualitative realist evaluation. Eleanor is currently Assistant Director of Evaluation at the Australian Attorney Generals Department. Eleanor is working to lead the development of the evaluation function for the department and build evaluation capacity and evidence based policy making. Eleanor worked at the Victorian Department of Education as Lead Evaluator for the Career Start Pilot a large mix methods evaluation over a three year period utilising rapid evaluation cycles, participatory realist evaluation and quasi-experimental evaluation techniques over a three year period. Eleanor was the Project Lead Culture of Evaluation Strategy development - leading a cultural change piece for the whole department, including chairing the subcommittee on evaluation capacity building. When not working (and sometimes when she is) she is wrangling her two kidlets, trying to find time to read, exercise and cook yummy food.