Dr Dreolin Fleischer is Engaged Research Manager in the Regional Engagement Team of Exeter Innovation. Dreolin is responsible for providing strategic and operational leadership for all aspects of Public Engagement with Research (PER) across the University. She works closely with Engaged Researchers and Practitioners across the three university faculties and all campuses in Exeter and Cornwall, to further develop and embed a culture that supports and nurtures inclusive and equitable engagement with diverse publics throughout all stages of the research cycle. While the ERM position sits within and supports the Regional Engagement Team, the remit covers national and international in addition to regional PER.

Dreolin has more than 20 years of experience in programme evaluation and applied research working within the areas of education, health, arts and culture, and policing. Her graduate research focused on the topic of evaluation use, which has remained an area of interest throughout her career; specifically, understanding how the process and results of research and evaluation contribute to learning and get used in decision making.

Since she began working at the University of Exeter in 2016, Dreolin has worked within the Policing and Evidence Group in the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS). A primary role she had was that of embedded Research Fellow within Devon and Cornwall Police, where she worked on evidence-based policing strategies and liaising between the Force and the University.

Dreolin has skills and experience in stakeholder engagement; building and supporting networks; communicating with academic and non-academic audiences; teaching and training; project management; bid development; developing evaluation plans; and creating logic models and theories of change.

PhD, Claremont University, California, USA

MA, Claremont University, California, USA

BA, Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA