Alice Sampson is head of the urban regeneration research team at the Centre for Institutional Studies. Since the 1990s the Alice has won many research contracts to assess the impact of government policies. Evaluation studies include Stratford City Challenge, Safer Cities, eight Single Regeneration Budget programmes in East London, the Youth Inclusion Programme, Home Office initiatives to stop domestic violence, and the Children’s Fund and Sure Start programmes. Many reports have been published for funders and publications include Home Office ‘Good Practice Guides’ on preventing domestic violence and articles in international journals including the British Journal of Criminology and the International Journal of Evaluation.

The impact of government social policies: evaluation: criminality and crime prevention; women, young people and minority ethnic communities.

All publications post 2001:

• A lot of friends. A lot of appreciation and a phone that never stops ringing'. Community leadership and social exclusion in East London. Voluntary Action. 2001.
• ‘An analysis of the role of neighbourhood ethnic composition in the geographical distribution of racially motivated incidents’ (with Brimicombe et al). British Journal of Criminology 41, p 293-308. 2001.
• Football and Social Inclusion: The Thames Gateway Youth ProjectCIS Commentary Series paper No 98 (withVikki Rix and David Sloan). 2001.
  Young People out of work in South West Newham: Three Years On. CIS Commentary Series paper No 99. 2001.
  
  Community Computers: The Success of the Flexible Learning Centre in South LeytonstoneCIS Commentary Series No 103. 2001.
• ‘Tackling Domestic Violence: Providing Advocacy and Support to Survivors from Black and other Minority Ethnic Communities’ (with Alpa Parmar), Home Office: Good Practice Guide, 2005.
• ‘Tackling Domestic Violence: Providing Advocacy and Support to Survivors of Domestic Violence’ (with Alpa Parmar), Home Office: Good Practice Guide, 2005.
• Evaluation of Drug Prevention Communications Project for Young People. CIS Research Report No 1. 2006. (with Brian McDonnell and Sonja Nissen)
• Barking and Dagenham’s Children’s Fund: Initial Research Findings. CIS Research Report No 3. 2006.
• ‘Developing robust approaches to evaluating social programmes.’ Forthcoming Evaluation Journal.
• ‘Evaluating domestic violence initiatives: transferring practice principles not projects’. Accepted at the British Journal of Criminology subject to corrections (with Alpa Parmar).

Conference Papers

• 'I'll write the conclusions, then you can do the research' paper given at the UK Evaluation Society conference, London, 7/8th December 2000.
• 'Exploring youth work interventions and how they affect offending behaviour of young people and those on the margins of offending' paper presented at the British Sociological Association Annual Conference, University of Leicester 25 - 27th March 2002 (with Emma Ahmad and Afsia Khanom)
• 'Evidence-based evaluation: developing a Popperian approach' Popper Centenary Congress, Vienna, Austria. July 2002 (with Jon Griffith).
• ‘Policy evaluation: what counts as evidence?’ Paper given at the Evaluation Society conference, London December 2002.
• Thatcher’s Children: Is youth crime a logical extension of the free market economy? (with Emma Ahmad). Paper presented at the British Sociological Association Annual Conference, University of York, 11th -13th April 2003.
• ‘Working with young people in the community who offend’ (with Sypros Themelis) Societies of Criminology 1st Key Issues Conference. Paris Renaissance Hotel May 13-15 2004.
• ‘Domestic Violence: is it really such an intractable problem?’ (with Rosina Knight) Culture and Social Change: Disciplinary Exchanges. 11 – 13 July 2005.ESRC Centre for Socio-Cultural Change, University of Manchester.
• ‘Towards an understanding of empowerment and how it can be integrated into the ethos of Children’s Centres’ (with Afsia Khanom) Sure Start Conference. University of Nottingham. 14-15 June 2006.