Barbara Wauchope
Research Associate Professor
Barbara Wauchope is a Research Associate Professor at the Carsey Institute. She is a sociologist interested in the challenges children and families face living in today’s changing communities. Her expertise is in program evaluation and she helps organizations seeking to address these challenges learn the outcomes and impacts of their work and ways to improve their program interventions, products and services.
Dr. Wauchope has twenty years experience in the direction, design, and implementation of research and evaluation studies. As a Senior Research Associate at RMC Research Corporation, a private research and evaluation consulting firm, Dr. Wauchope conducted evaluations of grant-funded projects for federal and state government, foundation, nonprofit organization, and school district clients. Most were evaluations of school-based and social service programs or initiatives with the goal of improving the academic, economic, or health circumstances of low-income at-risk families and children. She has also conducted research on child care, child abuse, and intimate partner violence. She received a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of New Hampshire.