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Forthcoming QuIP with TASO
We’re excited to announce that we are working with The Centre for Transforming Access and Student Outcomes in Higher Education (TASO) and St Mary’s University, Twickenham on a small n evaluation of their Boundary Spanner project. A recent TASO report highlights the rise in reported mental health difficulties amongst UK higher education students, but limited...
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When (some of) the world converged in Bath
It’s been an incredibly busy summer for Bath SDR, over the months when typically those of us in the Northern Hemisphere tend to try to take holidays, which makes a rush of projects all culminating at the same time even more difficult than it would be at any other time! So, a big thank you...
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Introducing the new Causal Pathways Resource Hub
This week we point you to a joint blog and project we have been involved with over the last two years. https://www.betterevaluation.org/blog/introducing-causal-pathways-resource-hub The Causal Pathways Initiative is a group of practitioners interested in approaches which focus on the pathways to change, expected and unexpected, without relying on experimental or quasi-experimental approaches. This fantastic resource hub...
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Conference season approaches!
As we wend our way through a ‘is it really Summer?’ season in the UK 🌦️, we get ever closer to a series of exciting conferences which will feature at least a passing reference to some of our work! First up is BIEN, the world’s largest annual Basic Income Conference convened by the Basic Income...
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Book now for next QuIP training course starting 14th October 2024
Our next Lead Evaluator Course in QuIP project design and management is booked to run between 14th – 21st October 2024. Find out more about the course and see testimonials from previous attendees here. The course offers an introduction to the theory behind QuIP as well as covering the practical aspects of designing, costing and...
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Three new QuIP reports from WFP, UNDP and Notre Dame
We always enjoy seeing shared results of evaluations using QuIP, and in the last few weeks we have been treated to three such examples which we are pleased to say are now available on our resources page – just search for Example Reports. The first study was conducted in Haiti by the University of Notre...
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2023 – it’s a wrap!
As we say goodbye to 2023 we (Hannah and Fiona) reflect on the highs and lows of another busy year for our little team in Bath, UK. We started the year with a beautifully post-pandemic move into an in-person office space in the vaults underneath the old railway station in Bath, Green Park Station, run...
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Causal Map update #3!
For anyone who has followed our journey into the world of qualitative data analysis software, we’re pleased to announce a sleek, new and improved version! Causal Map version 3 (CM3) has launched and is already being used regularly by a team of early adopters and new users. The update has a much cleaner look, is...
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Thinking about the future: methods and approaches to inform development policy and practice
This blog was originally posted by the University of Bath Centre for Development Studies and is reproduced here with the permission of Prof James Copestake. Cartoon by Chris Lysy of Fresh Spectrum, reproduced (with permission) from the fantastic book Evaluation Illustrated. In an era of heightened crisis and uncertainty, prospects for anticipating future trends and...
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