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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Steve Powell shares news of the publication of our article on causal mapping in the journal Evaluation. We have come to think of causal mapping as (part of) the logic of QuIP analysis, but until now had not set this in the context of an existing body of work which has contributed to the development...
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Nearly everyone is in favour of mixed method impact evaluation (MMIE), but that doesn’t make it easy to do well. Indeed, it’s often not even that clear what MMIE means. We all know it has something to do with combining ‘quant’ and ‘qual’, but are we talking about tasks, tools, techniques, methods or approaches? Having...
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Recent news has rung alarm bells about how far away the world is from meeting the 17 Sustainable Development Goals set by the UN; documenting what is and isn’t helping us move in the right direction has never been more important. Speeches and campaigns tend to grab headlines, but what is really going on at...
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Over the last two years Bath SDR has been working with Kantar Public UK on several research projects, embedding QuIP into larger evaluations. The most recent study was commissioned to help evaluate the sector and organisational level impacts of the UK Government’s Tampon Tax Fund (TTF). This fund was set up to divert the VAT...
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Bath SDR is an active member of the Causal Pathways network – a group set up to focus interest in all things causal, particularly amongst US philanthropic institutions. The group has a centralised resource hub and news page which you can find at causalpathways.org. Here we bring you news of a virtual symposium which may...
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(Updated in March 2025) A typical QuIP evaluation study is based on a ‘unit’ of 24 interviews (and sometimes 4 focus groups), scaled up in units to 48, 72 and 96 (being the largest we have done on some complex and large projects). This invites a lot of questions! Why start with 24? Is that...
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We are grateful for this guest post from Michelle James. Michelle is a PhD researcher specialising in refugee and asylum seeker welfare and wellbeing in the UK. She also works as an independent research consultant in the development sector. Her particular interests include partnership models of development, community empowerment and mobilisation, and behaviour change. I...
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Last week saw the wrap up of our latest QuIP Lead Evaluator training course (next one comes up in June this year!), an event which always involves sending lots of links out to various resources we have written and collected over the years. Our new Resources page is lovely and easy to filter now, and...
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