Jill Roberts is a Senior Research Fellow at UCL’s Institute of Health Equity (IHE). She is currently supporting the Child Health Equity Collaborative (CHEC), working to evaluate interventions that promote health equity for children, and developing a set of national child health equity indicators to support local areas to routinely and consistently monitor their local needs and efforts to address child health equity.

Previously at IHE, Jill led the development of an evidence and measurement framework for Children’s Centres and contributed to the analysis and presentation of the Marmot Indicators, which tracked health inequalities across England.

Before (re)joining IHE, Jill was Head of Research and Evaluation at the Lambeth Early Action Partnership (LEAP), A Better Start site, where she oversaw the development of LEAP’s theory of change, shared measurement system, and the programme’s research and evaluation efforts.

Jill also brings experience from The King’s Fund, where she worked on a collaborative project with Manchester University to assess the impact of the Care Quality commission’s (CQC) performance ratings. The research explored how health and social care providers, the public, and key stakeholders responded to these ratings, and how they influenced performance and care quality.

She holds a degree in English Literature and Language from the University of Sheffield, and a Masters in Research Methodology and Social Policy from the University of Liverpool.