President Gail V. Barrington, PhD, CMC

Dr. Gail Barrington established Barrington Research Group, Inc., in 1985 and shepherded it from a sole proprietorship to an incorporated company with a number of employees and associates. She is an acknowledged leader in program evaluation, applied social science research, and evaluation training in both Canada and the United States. With over 20 years experience, she has conducted or managed over 100 evaluation studies, many of a complex nature, for federal, provincial/territorial, and municipal governments, as well as for clients in the not-for-profit and private sectors. She is a member of the American Evaluation Associations Board of Directors, former Chair of the AEA Ethics Committee, and is one of the founding directors of the Canadian Evaluation Society Education Fund.

She has been a Certified Management Consultant since 1988. In 1994 she was nominated for the Canadian Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award. She has a Doctorate in Educational Administration from the University of Alberta (1981), an MA in English Literature from Carleton University (1971), and a BA in English Literature from McGill University (1967). She is a certified teacher and an adult educator and, in addition to managing her firm, instructs an on-line course on program evaluation in the Master of Health Studies program at Athabasca University.

Associates

A team of experienced associates works with Gail on a diverse range of projects:

Sue Calhoun, MBA, CED, BA

Senior Associate

Sue Calhoun has made her living from researching, interviewing and writing for more than 25 years. In 1997, she launched her own firm, Calhoun Research and Development/Recherche et developpement, based in Shediac, New Brunswick. She is the author of two books and co-author of a third. Fluently bilingual, she has a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the Université de Moncton, a Diploma in Community Economic Development (CED) from St. Mary's University in Halifax and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Sociology from the University of Waterloo. See: http://www.calhounresearch.ca/suecalhoun.htm

Joanne O'Connell, MA, BA, BSc

Senior Associate

Joanne O'Connell is a senior-level, career researcher, facilitator and analyst. She is a consultant in public opinion and communications research, and program evaluation. Her professional expertise is survey research (qualitative and quantitative) with areas of practice covering the range of traditional business uses for research with special emphasis on public affairs and policy communications, internal corporate communications, customer satisfaction and public consultation. She owns an applied marketing and communications research firm, O'Connell Enterprises. Joanne has an MA in Psychology (1972) from San Francisco State University, a BA in Psychology (1968) and a BSc in Mathematics (1965), both from the University of Alberta.

See: http://www.oconnellenterprises.ca/about.htm

Brenda Simpson, MBA, BSW

Senior Associate

Brendas strengths are in program evaluation, research, and writing, and she has over twenty years experience in management and consulting with human service organizations. Her consulting firm, Brenda J. Simpson & Associates has been providing community consulting services since 1991. Brenda has a Masters of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Calgary.

See: http://bsimpson.ca/

Rob Weaver, BSc, BSW

Senior Researcher

Rob has over ten years experience in research projects in the human services area, and has been project manager or senior researcher for over 20 program evaluation studies. He has particular strengths in quantitative analysis, survey design and report writing. Rob has worked with Barrington Research since 1997 in a variety of capacities.

He has Bachelor's degrees in Physics (with distinction) and in Social Work, both from the University of Calgary.