Author: drsophiemorris

Public Engagement Trainer working with organisations across the UK and beyond designing and delivering engaging workshops on communication skills, public engagement project management and evaluating impact.
Engagement with Impact

Getting Creative with Evaluation: Beyond Surveys, Spreadsheets and Tick Boxes

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What do ping pong balls, sticky dots, jelly babies and interpretive dance have in common? Well, they could all be part of your next evaluation! When you think about evaluation, what comes to mind? Surveys? Spreadsheets? Pre- and post-questionnaires? Endless requests for feedback? What about creativity, playfulness, reflection, storytelling and, dare I say it... FUN?!… Continue reading Getting Creative with Evaluation: Beyond Surveys, Spreadsheets and Tick Boxes

Engagement with Impact

Beyond data collection: Reciprocity as the heart of ethical evaluation

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Recently, we hosted a Communi-tea Live exploring something that is on a lot of our minds: what does it mean to evaluate ethically? Joined by 11 colleagues working across public engagement, researcher development and impact roles in higher education, we spent an hour unpacking the principles, practices and challenges of conducting evaluation in ways that… Continue reading Beyond data collection: Reciprocity as the heart of ethical evaluation

Engagement with Impact

Taking Stock: Getting our evaluation REF ready

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In March, we hosted the very first EvaluaTea Community Live session as part of the EvaluaTea network- a space to connect, share, and collectively explore how we are approaching evaluation in the context of REF 2029. We began with a simple but revealing question: how prepared do we feel for REF evaluation, using one of… Continue reading Taking Stock: Getting our evaluation REF ready