Working with the draft framework made it possible to produce a dozen full impact case studies from initial observations. To undertake this almost contradictory challenge, we developed a new evaluation framework that we tested across multiple projects in a pilot exercise. A new evaluation framework: building blocks
The initiative identified an additional challenge: that of demystifying and operationalising impact evaluation in a coherent and accessible way that nonetheless allows for diversity, subtlety and uncertainty. In addition to programme activities such as training workshops and small-group conversations, the initiative identified an additional challenge: that of demystifying and operationalising impact evaluation in a coherent and accessible way that nonetheless allows for diversity, subtlety and uncertainty. This mission stemmed from a 2012 external impact evaluation which recommended directing attention toward helping researchers generate and record impacts. With this in mind, Forest Research, the government research agency that supports the UK forestry sector, has committed to promote a culture of knowledge exchange and interdisciplinarity in its research. The increasing pressure placed upon research organisations of all kinds (not just universities) to demonstrate impact is often passed along to researchers and research managers without the support of an accompanying cultural change within the institution. These building blocks are five types of impacts five broad categories of stakeholders and eight causal factors, along with a set of over-arching reflective questions.
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At a loss for how to demonstrate impact? Laura Meagher and David Edwards outline a dynamic understanding of impact evaluation comprised of ‘building blocks’.
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