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Resource Session – Making sense: analysing qualitative information

In these short free lunchtime sessions we will introduce one of our resources and share tips to help you get the most out of it, you’ll also have the chance to ask any questions. We have lots of great resources and practical tools freely available on our website – please let us know if there is a particular resource you’d like to see featured in a future session!

These sessions are designed for those with an existing knowledge of evaluation working in the third sector; those working in the public sector may also find them useful and are welcome to attend.  As a charity, our priority is to support volunteers and those employed in the voluntary and public sectors; therefore, our free resource sessions are not available to private consultants.

Come join us as we introduce the following resource:

Making sense: analysing qualitative information.

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Making sense: analysing qualitative informationMartha Lester-CribbThursday 26th February 2026

11.30am – 12.10pm
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About the resource:

This resource is about analysing qualitative information. Qualitative information is non numerical – It can be about what people say, hear or experience. It can be about: what has changed personally for them or what outcomes have been achieved.

Qualitative information can come in a variety of formats, for example: quotes, photographs, art work, or creative responses – stories (people telling you what has happened to them and how they feel).

This guide can be used to help you make sense of qualitive information.

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If you are you looking for training on evaluation, we would recommend our workshop Let’s Evaluate! Lite or the full Let’s Evaluate! programme. If you would like a support session, please see tailored support for more information on how we can support you with specific evaluation needs.

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Martha Lester-Cribb

Deputy CEO

About Martha

Martha has worked in a range of roles in the third sector over more than 40 years! This included being part of the development of Talking Mats™ at the University of Stirling, co-founding Pass IT On (an IT reuse charity for people with disabilities) and being the Quality Officer at Befriending Networks.  She has also learned about being in the role of funder by sitting on grants allocation panels for Shared Care Scotland.   

Martha moved to ESS in 2013 and enjoys that she gets to work with organisations large and small in a range of different fields. 

“I love the moment when I can see that evaluation has changed from being something dull that organisations have to do, to something which makes sense to them, is useful and even fun!”  

She has a special interest in running Shared Learning Programmes – a way of working with funders and their grantholders over time to identify emerging themes, gather the range of learning, and support those involved to use and share that learning more widely. 

“I was once misquoted as saying that the only reason I get up in the morning is for self-evaluation.  This isn’t true!  BUT… my career motivation is to make a difference, so if I don’t know whether I’m making one, why bother going to work?”

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