Our Work
Evaluation
We specialise in finding new approaches to evaluation in complex systems. Our clients are in the public, private and voluntary sectors, in the UK, Europe and worldwide.
An international track record
Drawing on our experience of action research and consultancy, we have contributed to the international development of evaluation practice. This continues today. We…
- host the peer-reviewed journal Evaluation
- take part in the UK and international evaluation societies
- contribute to national and international guidelines on evaluation practice.
And not just evaluations
We also…
- design evaluation frameworks and strategies for organisations and programmes
- conduct meta-evaluations (or evaluation overviews)
- provide bespoke training in evaluation, including self-evaluation methods.
We combine these skills with experience in (amongst others):
- central and local government
- employment and social inclusion
- ICT and information society
- health, public health and social care
- training and professional development
- European commission/European Union
- voluntary, community and faith sectors
Select area of Research…
Featured Case Study
External Evaluation of the EU Programme of Community Action to encourage co-operation between Member States to Combat Social Exclusion
The programme evaluation addressed issues of large systems learning, and transferability of learning across 25 member states’ policy and practice actors in relation to multi-dimensional aspects of social exclusion through six instruments or actions.