Dr. Brent Rutherford
Senior Consultant - Evaluation and Research Methods

Since joining the SPR team in 1982, Dr. Rutherford has provided advice in quantitative analysis, development of indices, and related methodological areas. He has extensive experience in program and policy evaluation and analysis; formal and statistical models; data analysis and reduction methods; optimization and operations research applications; computer graphics; measurement of social behaviour and attitudes; and computer simulation and applications.

Selected SPR studies include:

Renewing Ontario's Recreation-Nature Trails Strategy (for the Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport, 2014-15);
Study of Worker Safety in Ontario Children's Aid Societies (for the Ontario Association of Children's Aid Societies, 2013-14);
Evaluation of the Victim/Witness Assistance Program (V/WAP) (for the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General, 2010-11);
Evaluation of the New Opportunities Fund (for the Canada Foundation for Innovation, 2006-07);
Evaluation of Priorities for Future Technologies -- a Delphi Study (for the National Research Council of Canada, 2006);
Evaluation of the Community Inclusion Initiative (CII) (for Social Development Canada, 2004-06);
Study of Human Resources and Issues in Meteorology (for EcoCanada and the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, 2004-05);
Value-for-Money Analysis of the Homebuyer Education Training Pilot (for Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, 2004);
Market Segmentation of Environment Canada Clients (for Environment Canada, 2004);
Evaluation of HRDC Information Products and Web Delivery (for Human Resources Development Canada, 2000-2002); and
Evaluation of the Canadian Pollution Prevention Clearinghouse (for Environment Canada, 1999).

Some of Dr. Rutherford's earlier SPR studies include: Evaluation of the Special Measures Initiatives Program (for Treasury Board Secretariat, 1998); Study of Extraordinary Expenditures of the Disabled (for the Ontario Office for Disability Issues, 1991); Evaluation of the Co-operative Housing Program (for Program Evaluation Division, CMHC, 1989-90); Study of Joint Occupational Health and Safety Committees in Ontario (for the Ontario Advisory Council on Occupational Health and Occupational Safety, 1984-86); Evaluation of the Employment Program for the Disadvantaged (for Employment and Immigration Canada, 1983-84); and Evaluation of the Ontario Work Incentives Program (for the Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services, 1982).