Evaluation Exchange

Watch our animation about how and why we run the Evaluation Exchange. It is a joy to co-deliver the programme with @OneCamden, @compostlondon and @UCLEastEngage. A true exchange of knowledge and we love it! #KEF22 youtu.be/3nhBzBpeXXA @UCL_London @UCLEngage

Are you a resident or organisation in east London keen to strengthen local voices in environmental, climate change + health research? Join our networking event to meet others and UCL researchers. 10 April @ 6pm, UCL East ⬇️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/canvas-local… @compostlondon @UCLEastEngage

The Arbor programme brings together artist and UCL researchers to explore new ideas in the field of neurological disease. Application are open now. to find out more please visit: ucl.ac.uk/ion-dri-progra…… @uclh @UCLIoN @UKDRI

Spotlight on: the Evaluation Exchange, highly commended for the Excellence in Cocreation Award! @EvaluationExch is a collaboration between UCL and @compostlondon, matching community organisations with PHD students to tackle research challenges. @UCL_IEDE ucl.ac.uk/evaluationexch…

Congratulations to us! Highly Commended for 'Excellence in Co-creation'. @UCLEastEngage Engagement Awards. Caroline from @compostlondon is chuffed. As are we all! @UCLEast @UCL_IEDE

There are a lot of gems in this article about measuring charities' effectiveness. From @Charity_Awards. Take a look! ⬇️ charityawards.co.uk/article/made-t…

"What I liked... was the focus on social value and working together with the community for the good of the community" - @UCL student Tochi reflects in @mooregemma's blog about our Evaluation Training for Community Consultancy course. ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/envir…

Fantastic to see our long-term collaborators @compostlondon in the events featured in the video, sharing with @ucl students their experience in local voluntary and community sectors.

@KentishTownCC @TheUnionUCL @UCLVolunteering @NCVO @wrkwll @Clarion_Group @OneCamden ...and of course @isayRAAR, whose film making captured the essence of how it feels to be part of something like this 📽️🤩

'How do you measure social value?'. Watch our new film showing how our @UCL course, 'Evaluation Training for Community Consultancy' explored this + benefits those who take part. youtu.be/p_lkHEPejlE

This Summer students did 6-weeks of Evaluation Training for Community Consultancy with @EvaluationExch and @KentishTownCC to assess social value. Find out how they applied academic skills to real-world challenges and made significant community impact ➡️ ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/envir…

Nice little summary for anyone managing an evaluation. (Thanks to @BetterEval, as always!) betterevaluation.org/frameworks-gui…

Looking for one place that answers all your evaluation questions? Take a look at this comprehensive guide for those of you aware of some evaluation terms, but needing some guidance. Thanks to Paul from @MidlandsDSN for sign-posting it to us 🙂midlandsdecisionsupport.nhs.uk/wp-content/upl…

'Using storytelling & stories for evaluation'. Looking forward to next week's 'Thinking Impact' from @TheBartlettUCL. With guests @dpu_ucl's Dr Catalina Ortiz and @ArtsatOFS's Jeremy Spafford. @UCL_IEDE @UCL_ISR @BartlettArchUCL @UCL_BSSC @UCLEastEngage ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/event…

A jam-packed, welcoming, creative and thought provoking Festival of Impact & Evaluation from @ChEW_UK today. Thanks for having us! And for incorporating evaluation into games of Jenga 😊

Thank you @LivingGirona and @univgirona for inviting us to share our experience of, and learn from those across Europe and the World who are passionate about, university, student and community collaboration. @compostlondon @UCLEastEngage

Arts-based evaluation. Looking for inspiration? Cut up the grant application and make a poem, use photos, make collages and memory boxes. Loads of ideas here from @ArtReachToronto. betterevaluation.org/sites/default/…

Role of the 'broker'. When there are collaborations between different groups of people there's often someone acting broker, translator, mediator and connector. A great summary here featuring @fiddlebrain and others' experience through the @theideasfund. theideasfund.org/news/the-role-…

If you want a general idea of what a 'theory of change' is and what some of the associated vocabulary means, this is a handy resource from @tools4dev ⬇️ tools4dev.org/blog/what-is-a…

Measuring impact. There's an increasing focus on demonstrating impact in our work in improvement, change & knowledge creation. But while we're so busy measuring impact, is anything actually changing? Data & measurement are important but they're not enough to create change, particularly in complex systems. Here's a brilliant new discussion article that offers: 1) A history of impact measurement and how its cultural roots are affecting how we think about impact today 2) How "value" skews impact measures 3) How the more uncertain things become, the more the push for methods that help us generate a sense of certainty grows - which should make us question them 4) How might we pragmatically frame ‘impact measurement’ in the context of complex challenges & work to improve systems? medium.com/good-shift/now…. By @Centre4SysInnov via Paul Batalden