Dr Rachel Horan, CPsychol, CSci., AFBPsS.

Rachel is a Chartered Psychologist and Founder / Director of the Averment Group and provides psychologically informed consultancy, research capacity building and evaluation services. She has some 20 years’ experience in humanitarian fields, criminal justice, rule of law and development including areas of migration, exploitation, conflict related sexual violence, group enabled offending, violent extremism and international criminal law.

Rachel has designed, delivered and disseminated numerous mixed methods MERL assignments with a range of global civil society, government and university clients. She is well experienced in meaningful participatory research methods and systematic enquiry using tools including interviews, focus groups, surveys, observation and community mapping with methodological rigour. She has a specialist interest in the psychology of group enabled crime and has worked extensively in research and capacity building in criminal exploitation, gangs and extremism.

She is a ‘pracademic’ with skills built from a combination of direct case work experience together with academic and expert knowledge. Rachel is a widely published scholar with interests in assessment and interventions and strengths based, positive psychology approaches. Prior to becoming a consultant, Rachel worked directly with children and young people involved in the criminal justice system. Rachel has a PhD from Liverpool University UK, a Certificate in International Law (UCLouvain), and a Certificate in Humanitarian Response to Conflict and Disaster, (Harvard Humanitarian Initiative). She speaks English and has a working knowledge of French.