Category Archives: Blog Post
Sep
Back to Life
The evaluation of Timebank’s Shoulder to Shoulder project is now underway, and we’re currently designing the evaluation for the Back to Life project.
Jul
Monitoring and evaluation system, Magic Bus
As part of a partnership including Streetfootballworld, Laureus and Aqumen Social Technologies, Orla’s heading to Magic Bus in Delhi next week to assist with the creation of a monitoring and evaluation system.
Tagged | M&E
Jul
Virtual facilitation
Participating today in a demonstration of ToP facilitation via Skype and Adobe Connect, hosted by ICA. 10 participants so far, spread across US, Taipei, Europe, Hong Kong. Very interesting.
Jun
Group facilitation training
Orla is training with ICA:UK on the Group Facilitation Methods courses in Dublin (14th & 15th June) and Limerick (16th & 17th June). There are still some heavily discounted places available on both of these courses. Contact www.ica-uk.org.uk or call 0845 450 0305 to learn more and to reserve your place.
Tagged | facilitation, training
Jun
Sport for Development Research Mapping
The mapping of Sport for Development research was presented and discussed at the UK Sport for Development network meeting hosted by UK Sport on 7th June. The presentation (a summary of the report) is available here, and the minutes and actions will be circulated presently.
Jun
Comic Relief Sport for Development Research Mapping
The Comic Relief Sport and Development Research Mapping report is now available here. This report is a sampling of the current research initiatives and approaches to monitoring and evaluation in the sector. Issues identified under the themes of problem identification, knowledge generation and knowledge use are discussed.
Tagged | M&E, review, sport for development
May
Evaluation of the Timebank/Combat Stress Shoulder to Shoulder project
We’re delighted to have been appointed evaluators of the Timebank/Combat Stress Shoulder to Shoulder project.
Mar
Sport for Development Research Review: Comic Relief
Delighted to report that OCR have been commissioned by Comic Relief to map the literature on Sport for Development and update an earlier review. This will be presented at the next UK Sport for Development network meeting in June.
Tagged | qualitative research, sport for development
Feb
Coo-L’s cool..
Spring’s in the air, lots of interesting projects on the go, and OCR/Wildcard have just delivered the Coo-Levaluation report: lots of actionable feedback for Camden Council derived via workshops, interviews and an online survey. Always a delight to work on a project where the beneficiaries are so engaged and positive.
Tagged | evaluation, interview, survey, workshop
Feb
Qualitative data analysis & techology
Computer aided qualitative data analysis? A conversation with a colleague today revealed that there is still resistance to technology in this field. Arguing that computer assisted qualitative data analysis is detrimental to ‘meaning’ is a little like saying that a telephone is detrimental to a conversation. The content is what matters, regardless of the tools you use to mine it. Computer aided qualitative data analysis (CAQDAS) doesn’t *have* to involve automation (though there are occasions where it can, and it’s helpful). Rather, it helps you systematically analyse large corpora of data (text, video, photos) without giving you RSI in the process. Taking some of the drudgery out of the analysis should enable you to pay even more attention to what your data actually “mean”, not to mention enabling you to track your logic systematically, thus helping you to justify your conclusions. The CAQDAS networking project at the University of Surrey is a great resource for this topic, providing independent reviews and comparisons of different software packages, in addition to training courses and methodological working papers. http://caqdas.soc.surrey.ac.uk/