As reported by Gordon Stone On 12th May 2011 QualDATA directors, Jeff Coutts and Gordon Stone, attended a Roundtable meeting in Canberra jointly convened by the Council of RDCs and CSIRO. The purpose of the meeting was to consider strategic approaches to, and future possibilities of, impact evaluation of research – in context of the
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CSIRO/CRRDC Evaluation Roundtable – considering social & environmental impacts
The travel diaries of Gordon Stone
Over the last 3 weeks I have been in the USA and had the opportunity to meet with senior global agribusiness representatives, a senior independent on-farm consultant, an innovative horticultural producer in Canada and one of the agriculture focussed universities.
Indigeneity, web crawlers and social justice: Reflections on the 2010 AES conference
Kia ora! The beautiful NZ city of Wellington played host to the 2010 Australasian Evaluation Society (AES) Conference (Sept 1-3) which this year had the theme ‘Reflecting on Evaluation’. In NZ for holidays at the same time, I was able to drop in for the first day. After we were greeted in the traditional Maori
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Evaluation trends into 2009
As we come to the end of 2008, we are finding the discipline of Evaluation is becoming even more relevant to everyday work. Government departments and publicly funded organisations (e.g.NRM bodies and Research and Development organisations) are under increased scrutiny, which means that they are seeing an increased need to be to able monitor their
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