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Qualitative research in a pandemic – what we learned in 2020
Almost a year ago we published a blog on the back of a virtual discussion held with researchers from the Bath SDR network and beyond about the challenges and opportunities facing qualitative researchers conducting fieldwork during the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite the uncertainty about procedures and practicalities, we committed to ‘try, learn, fix, and try again’....
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When Qualitative Approaches Work Best – a guest blog post by Ann Mitchell
The following blog post is a contribution from Ann Mitchell, Full Professor in the Department of Economics at the Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA). Whilst in Bath working with Severine Deneulin at the University of Bath she trained as a QuIP Lead Evaluator in 2019 and went on to use the approach independently to evaluate a...
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Free QuIP Coding Refresher course
Since 2017 we have trained over 120 people in QuIP study design and data analysis on our QuIP Lead Evaluator course. This is a valued community of standard bearers who help us in our mission to encourage more and better use of qualitative data in evaluations. Since the launch of Causal Map and Bath SDR’s move...
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New paper on QuIP case selection strategies
We’re pleased to make available a pre-publication version of a new paper by James Copestake, forthcoming in the journal Development in Practice; Case and evidence selection for robust generalisation in impact evaluation The paper focuses on sampling – or ‘case selection’, one of the areas researchers new to QuIP find most difficult to reconcile with...
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Causal mapping – the next frontier
A guest blog by Steve Powell who is working with Bath SDR on solving some of the knotty problems encountered in analysing and using causal connections – the heart of so many evaluations. As programme evaluators, we often have to deal with heaps of causal claims, for example that X causes Y, or causally contributes...
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