Dr Tanya Murphy
Dr Tanya Murphy is our Associate specialising in monitoring and evaluation. Tanya is a social sector professional with over ten years of international experience in project management and organisation evaluation. She runs her own practice, evaluating projects in the social and public sectors. Recent evaluations include the Packington Families Project, a partnership approach to supporting families in Islington, Time Together, a project matching refugees and UK citizens in mentoring relationships, Digitall Manchester, a TimeBank project matching young savvy computer users with older people wanting to enter the digital age, and the London Voluntary Sector Council’s HR outreach project for small ethnic minorities. She has worked with a number of charities in a research and project management capacity, including UnLtd, the Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs and the School for Social Entrepreneurs. In South Africa, she was strategic consultant to RUTEC, a company specialised in micro enterprise development, and executive assistant to Letsema, a consultancy specialised in government contracts. Tanya completed her PhD in social anthropology, focussing on Ethiopian Jewish Immigrants to Israel. Tanya recently set up and chairs the Zoe Sarojini Education Trust to support the education of African children (http://www.zoetrust.org).