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Scottish Book Trust – An Approach to Evaluation
In this blog, ESS Board Member Katherine – Head of Research & Evaluation at Scottish Book Trust – shares how evaluation is approached at SBT.
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Health & Wellbeing in Evaluation
In this wrap-up of our ‘Health and Wellbeing’ theme you will find a recap of the theme, including useful resources and content we shared!
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Wellbeing at ESS
Our wellbeing policy is about how we recognise and manage different needs so that we can all individually be at our best, and so that ESS can perform at its best!
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Involving lived and living experience – what this means for funders
In this blog we provide reflections on our learning about involving people with lived (& living) experience of the issues we fund in funder decision making or delivery.
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Participatory Research – Round Table Discussion
TSRF & The Binks Hub hosted a discussion at the Edinburgh Future’s Institute site, with peer-researchers from Poverty Alliance & Youthlink Scotland. In this blog, Marianne, Communications Officer at ESS, shares her thoughts from the round-table discussion.
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Funders! it’s time to trust (an evidence-based rant)
The Scottish Third Sector Tracker collects ongoing data about the state of the sector from hundreds of third sector organisations. Over half of respondents said that grant conditions had become more demanding!
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Good news! Funders do read and use grantholder reports!
Good news – some funders are using grantholder learning and doing so well! This blog contains some tips from the Funder Evaluation and Learning group that might interest grantholders and inspire other funders.
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Young people in charge of evaluation!?! How could that work?
Young people from the Scottish Youth Parliament (SYP) were commissioned by Scottish Government to carry out an evaluation of Scottish Government funded mental health and wellbeing community support and services for 5–24-year-olds, their parents and carers.
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A database with a heart: using IT for meaningful evaluation
It’s a universal truth: youthwork and evaluation databases go together like vegans and steak. No youth worker wants to fill in a database. No database captures the magic of youthwork.
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How NOT to get overwhelmed when exploring digital tools for evaluation
If you feel overwhelmed by all the digital evaluation tools out there, first of all, do not panic! You are probably already doing all the right things but just need to review the factors that influence how you choose your evaluation methods.
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Embedding Research Ethics in a Third Sector Organisation
Dr Amy Calder and Dr Neil Davidson talk about their partnership work in developing an ethics research policy for a third sector organisation
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What do we mean by ‘ethical research principles’? What does that mean in practice?
We all want to ‘do’ research well and ensure that as we find out the answer to our questions we don’t upset or harm those that we work with, those we interview and involve in the research or ourselves. It all sounds easy but when it comes to practice sometimes its easy to fall foul of best practice without really realising. Read this blog about TSRF new guide to applying ethical research principles.