Sue Giancola, Ph.D. is senior associate director of the Center for Research in Education and Social Policy (CRESP). Prior to joining UD, Dr. Giancola spent over 20 years providing research and evaluation services in education and human services, including 15 years as an independent consultant. Dr. Giancola’s primary area of research involves developing evaluation methodologies that foster the integration of evaluation into program design and to promote the use of evaluation as a continuous improvement component of program implementation.

Dr. Giancola has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in the areas of research methods, management of human services programs, assessment, and evaluation. She is author of Program Evaluation: Embedding Evaluation into Program Design and Development, published by Sage.