Bath SDR is working with TASO and St Mary’s University, Twickenham to evaluate their ‘Boundary Spanner’ project which supports student wellbeing amongst widening participation students. We hired postgraduate students at St Mary’s to conduct open-ended interviews with students participating in Boundary Spanner activities (gym sessions and paint workshops). In this guest blog, one of the...
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As many of you will know, QuIP’s origins were in the Centre for Development Studies at the University of Bath, where the initial ESRC-funded research was undertaken before we spun out as a non-profit consultancy to continue our research and development. We will therefore be joining CDS later this year when it celebrates turning fifty!...
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Check out some free training recordings – including a QuIP case study. Bath SDR is a member of the Causal Pathways network which seeks ‘to help philanthropy and other funders open-up the black box of strategy and systems change by building awareness, will, and skills to use evaluation approaches that can make sense of causal...
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After many years of offering a hybrid online course on QuIP at fixed times, we have now updated the course to be available as an entirely self-study option. Although live group sessions are wonderful, running the course on occasional fixed dates around our schedules was not convenient for everyone else’s schedules! We would still love...
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We’re excited to share findings and materials launched today by UNICEF Innocenti Global Office of Research and Foresight on two exploratory studies conducted with children and adolescents in Bihar and Telangana, India. Bath SDR worked alongside UNICEF Innocenti and Young Lives India throughout 2024 on this research into child work, labour and schooling , supporting...
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This is a guest post about a recent QuIP evaluation by UNICEF, authored by Silvia Storchi, Joseph Mumba Zulu, Mathilde Van Drooghenbroeck, Thibault Uytterhaegen (UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight) and Adam Silumbwe (School of Public Health, University of Zambia), cross-posted with kind permission from socialprotection.org. The study was conducted in collaboration...
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A guest blog written by Kristen Check, Vice President, EIG Insights and Katie Toop, Senior Director of Transformational Development, World Concern In 2021, World Concern commissioned an external evaluation of the OVT program to assess its community impact. This blog details the rationale and process, but you can see a summarized version of the report...
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It is great to see another independent QuIP publication – Qualitative Assessment of the Implementation and Impact of the Pilot Universal Child Benefit Programme in Kenya by Dr Thibault Uytterhaegen alongside Lusajo Kajula, Sofia af Hällström, Nyasha Tirivayi and Mathilde Van Drooghenbroeck of UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight. This is a...
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This blog had slipped out of sight on our news page, and given that we are so often asked about sample sizes, I thought it was a good time to update it, with a few changes and additional references. Thank you again to the wonderful Chris Lysy for the cartoon, which we republish with his...
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