Nina Cilins
Nina is a Project Consultant at Campbell Tickell with over two years of experience managing academic and professional research projects across diverse topics. Nina has worked with a wide range of clients mostly from the housing, care, and support sectors, including local authorities, public sector organisations, service providers, membership bodies, and government departments.
Key responsibilities:
- Benchmarking and data analysis: Develop bespoke benchmarking models using Excel to evaluate organisational performance against peer groups.
- Survey design and analysis: Design, administer and analyse consultation surveys using Excel and Power BI to deliver comprehensive reports with findings, including infographics and interactive presentations.
- Qualitative research: Facilitate focus groups, workshops, and interviews to collect qualitative data, performing thematic and client-specific analyses.
- Desktop research: Conduct in-depth reviews of financial documents, policies, strategies, and literature to provide actionable insights for clients and best-practice scans.
- Policy writing: Write operational and corporate policies tailored to organisations in the housing sector.
Examples of projects Nina has worked on:
- Review the available data on homelessness and households in temporary accommodation in England and Northern Ireland to predict future trends and growing demand.
- Take part in a research project on international reconnections, recruiting participants for a study, and keeping track of their progress over 6 months.
- Conduct deep-dive research on the housing sector in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, looking at the different regulatory regimes, main actors, size of the sectors, and funding sources to produce a one-page infographic sharing the information in a visual form.
Previously, Nina worked as an intern at Baringa Partners, a management consulting firm, where she contributed to a public procurement project for the NHS. Her work supported the development and coordination of the NHS vaccination programme during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nina holds an MSc in International Social and Public Policy from the London School of Economics, completed in 2021. Her dissertation featured an extensive literature review on female criminal behaviour and employed quantitative research methods to analyse and compare criminal trends among women across various welfare regimes. Before this, she achieved a first-class honours degree in English Law from King’s College London and a first-class degree in French Law from the University of Nice.