Our next Lead Evaluator Course in QuIP project design and management is booked to run between 3rd – 10th February 2025. 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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Written by Hanadi Al-Saidi of 60 Decibels and Hannah Mishan of Bath SDR Evaluations face many constraints – both external and internal, making it challenging to apply a one-size-fits-all methodology (see more about methodological bricolage here). What proves effective in one context may be ineffective or not relevant in another. Bath SDR had the privilege...
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Summarising complex pathways of change for a Cash Plus project. This year saw us undertaking analysis of over 100 QuIP interview transcripts for one of our largest evaluations to date, for Save the Children, with the support of our longstanding research partner in Malawi – Palm Consulting. Such a large and complex evaluation has forced...
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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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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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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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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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Any academic will tell you that one of the high points of their research is seeing work finally published; so I’m delighted (and relieved!) to be able to share the news that another paper building on QuIP experiences has just been e-published – this time in the Journal of Development Effectiveness. This adds to the...
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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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