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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We never stand still at BSDR, and the last few months have been all about reviewing the approach we take to coding our data! This short blog will summarise some of these conversations and link to a new resource for QuIP analysts to understand the implications of any changes for coding QuIP data. The QuIP...
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We are delighted to announce that the much anticipated book dedicated to the QuIP, ‘Attributing Development Impact: The Qualitative Impact Protocol Casebook’, launched on 18th March at the Bond Conference in London! Hardback and paperback copies are available from the publisher (and other well-known online booksellers), and thanks to the generous support of the University of...
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It’s World Book Day, and for many parents this means getting the dreaded craft box out and spending increasingly fraught hours making a costume or book character out of a potato, wooden spoon, hard-boiled egg etc. Surveying the chaos left after last night’s efforts reminded me of the (much more enjoyable) recent Qualitative Research Symposium...
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Voscur is the support and development agency for Bristol’s Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise sector (VCSE). They support organisations to increase the impact they create for their users. David Whittaker, Services Manager at Voscur writes here about a recent QuIP study undertaken with their clients in Bristol to assess what is driving change in local...
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