What we provide

Our research and evaluation service includes:

• Establishing project aims and desired outcomes
• Producing a tailored research and evaluation framework
• Exploration of management information systems and data collection, recording and monitoring
• Designing data collection systems
• Producing evaluation questionnaires
• Conducting 1 to 1 qualitative interviews (face to face or telephone)
• Running focus groups
• Supporting project teams through planning, evaluation and development sessions
• Using either solution focussed or traditional, issue focussed evaluation techniques
• Collating and organising data
• Data analysis
• Drawing conclusions
• Making recommendations
• Writing formal reports
• Presenting key findings to interested parties

Among the issues we address are:

• Independent evaluation to satisfy funding requirements
• Providing additional resources when needed
• Freeing staff to maintain and develop the service
• Learning more about the needs of the client group
• Evaluating “difficult to prove” projects that may not come review well using traditional success measures.