Phone: +61 7 4630 1297
Email: jeff@couttsjr.com.au

Dr Jeff Coutts is a national leader in both rural extension and program evaluation. He has particular expertise in the strategic design of market research tools. In 1992 he developed DPI Queensland’s Extension Strategy. He was Director of the Rural Extension Centre at University of Queensland (UQ) from 1996-2001 where, in addition to overseeing training in new extension approaches, he developed evaluation methods to monitor their effectiveness. He continues to teach the Masters level Evaluation of Projects and Programs Course at UQ. Since 2001, he has established his own evaluation and social research company “Coutts J&R” as well as forming QualDATA with Gordon Stone.

Jeff ran the first Australian Extension Conference at the Gold Coast in 1993, was a founding member of the Australasian Pacific Extension Network and is also a member of the Australasian Evaluation society. He has undertaken extensive research into extension and its evaluation through the Cooperative Venture in Human Capacity Building. The next section outlines some key M&E consultancies and projects he has been involved with as part of the QualDATA team as well as through Coutts J&R.