Building in Research and Evaluation

Yoland Wadsworth is a path-breaker in methodology and use of social research, evaluation and complex systems thinking in health, community and human services. She is author of the bestselling Do It Yourself Social Research and Everyday Evaluation on the Run.She is Adjunct Professor, Centre for Applied Social Research, RMIT University, and Principal Fellow, McCaughey VicHealth Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, University of Melbourne.

• FOREWORDPREFACEDEDICATIONLIST OF TABLES AND FIGURESACKNOWLEDGEMENTSPROLOGUE1. SOME INTRODUCTORY FOUNDATIONS FOR BUILDING ON2. LIVING SYSTEMS3. CYCLES OF RESEARCH, EVALUATION AND INQUIRY FOR LIFE4. MORE (TRULY) LIVING HUMAN SERVICES5. EXAMPLES OF BUILDING IN INQUIRY FOR LIVING HUMAN SERVICE SYSTEMS 6. CONCLUDING WORDSAPPENDICESAppendix 1. How to deliver negative evaluation results constructivelyAppendix 2. Key drivers of organisational excellenceAppendix 3. What s the Myers Briggs indicator got to do with it?Appendix 4. An example of use of the sequence of whole cycle research questions: in healthpromotion practiceAppendix 5. Other integral theories of changeANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHYREFERENCESINDEX

'Sound and persuasive, insightful, important and inviting. A great contribution' - Michael Quinn Patton, author of the best-selling book, Utilization-Focused Evaluation'Brilliant. I'm not aware of any other book of this nature. The examples are impressive' - Linette Hawkins, social work educator'I remain critical of 'systems' models and biological analogies for organisational processes, but this work is unquestionably original and in major ways innovative' - Raewyn Connell, sociology professor'Highly original. an ambitious integration of concepts. Credible and useful. Grounded in pioneering empirical research' - Danny Burns, professor of organisational learning