Author Archives: orlaadmin
Jul
Sports stars as role models or mentors?
A provocative recent article from Armour and Duncombe highlighting the conceptual confusion between role models and mentors. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13573322.2011.608941
Apr
Sport & Development Monitoring & Evaluation Symposium
Looking forward to presenting at the Symposium on Sport & Development Monitoring & Evaluation tomorrow at Southampton Solent University. The associated reference list is available here.
Mar
M&E Moving the Goalposts
Our work for Moving the Goalposts Kilifi, funded by Laureus, was presented at UK Sports Next Step Conference. See a conference summary here and the communique with affirmations, requests and recommendations here.
Feb
Monitoring & evaluation of information literacy interventions
Took part in a delightful and stimulating M&E workshop organised by the Research Information Network on behalf of the British Library for Development studies in Centurion, South Africa. Interesting to see how M&E challenges transfer across different development sectors. Report on the progress developing an M&E toolkit for information literacy, and further details about the initiative, available here.
Feb
Research paper published
Our research paper reporting quantitative evidence for the benefits of the Moving the Goalposts programme, has been published in Evaluation and Program Planning. The research shows that members attending activities at longer established MTG leaguefields in the programme experience greater benefits in terms of positive thoughts and feelings, and that members at fields in the rural areas benefit as much from the programme as those who are near head office.
The full reference for the paper is: Woodcock, A., Cronin, Ó., Forde, S. (2012). Quantitative evidence for the benefits of Moving the Goalposts, a Sport for Development project in rural Kenya,Evaluation and Program Planning, 35(3). http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014971891200002X
Feb
Quantitative data analysis training
Quantitative data analysis can be fun (and the flow of insights is induced by prodigious quantities of chocolate biscuits!) Deliciously nerdy day training/coaching the Rugby Football Foundation monitoring and evaluation team in quantitative data analysis. Elegant baseline data: itching to see the results from their follow-up survey.
Dec
Volunteer mentoring helps young adults recovering from mental illness
Our evaluation of TimeBank’s Back to Life volunteer mentoring programme for young adults indicates that this is a very valuable bridge back into society for young adults moving on formal mental health services. Read the report here.