Hannah Thomson

Evaluation Manager

Hannah joined TASO in September 2024.

As Evaluation Manager, Hannah focuses on supporting the higher education sector to improve their evaluation practices by developing and delivering evaluation training and creating guidance materials and practical tools. She also oversees projects that engage higher education providers in sharing their current approaches to equalizing opportunity in higher education and to evaluation, to inform the guidance TASO provides and to mobilize best practice across the sector. Hannah contributes to evidence synthesis projects, such as updates to TASO’s online evidence toolkits, and to TASO’s research and evaluation projects.

Previously, Hannah worked as Senior Research & Evaluation Officer at The Brilliant Club, a higher education access charity. In this role, she ran evaluations of higher education access and success initiatives and provided training and guidance to widening participation teams as part of a small consultancy team. Hannah also has experience as an outreach practitioner at the University of Cambridge and holds an MA in Education (Psychology) from University College London, where her research focused on post-16 educational decision-making.