Everyday Evaluation on the Run

Yoland Wadsworth is a pathbreaker in research methodology and its use in evaluation in health, community and human services for over forty years. She has been an evaluator and evaluation consultant and facilitator in community-based non-government organisations and self-help groups, and for state, federal and local governments; Adjunct Professor in the Centre for Applied Social Research, RMIT University, Principal Fellow in the McCaughey VicHealth Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, University of Melbourne, and deputy to the Director of the Policy & Research Branch in Premier & Cabinet, Victorian government. She is a Fellow and Life Member of the Australian Evaluation Society. She is also author of the best-selling Do It Yourself Social Research and culminating magnum opus, Human Inquiry for Living Systems: Building in Research and Evaluation for Life.

• 1. Introduction 2. A Conceptual Framework 3. Two Approaches to Evaluation 4. Doing Evaluation 5. The Evaluation Industry's Toolbox 6. Some Reading

‘Practical, useful counsel emanates throughout. Impressively grounded in real world experiences.’Michael Quinn Patton, Author of Utilization-Focused Evaluation‘Yoland Wadsworth’s Everyday Evaluation on the Run is a timeless and accessible guide that continues to equip practitioners with the clarity and confidence to integrate meaningful evaluation into their everyday work, even in the most complex and time-pressured contexts.’Dr Leanne Kelly, Deakin University, Australian Red Cross, Author of Internal Evaluation in Non-Profit Organisations and Evaluation in Small Development Non-Profits