"The final report is high quality, engaging and practically useful. It's being used in senior conversations and helping to shape the next phase of the work."
Healthcare Improvement Scotland
Do you have a complex programme to evaluate? Do you need to make sense of and integrate the learning?
We help you learn from and understand the impact of change.
If you are investing time, energy and money into a programme, you may need to understand whether it is making a difference.
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Evaluating the change does not have to feel extractive or complicated.
At its best, research and evaluation help stakeholders to learn, and influence and shape what happens next. Outputs become a practical tool to shape the programme in real-time. They help you understand what is happening, what is working, what is not working and how to adapt.
Make sense of the impact your programme, service, partnership or change initiative is having
Our research and evaluation services include:
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Designing theories of change
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Evaluation frameworks
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Qualitative and quantitative research
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Interviews and focus groups
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Stakeholder engagement
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Learning reviews
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Impact reports
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Recommendations
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Sense-making, learning and dissemination workshops
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Learning outputs and summaries
​Our approach is rigorous, but accessible and we care about about whether the findings are actually practically useful. The aim is to create outputs people can actively use, understand, trust and act on.
You're in the right place if you're saying...
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We need to know whether this programme has worked.
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We need to understand what impact we are having.
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We need a theory of change.
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We need to capture learning from this work and use it to influence others.
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We need to understand what is changing and why.
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We need clear recommendations to inform what happens next.
"There are quite a lot of complexities to the programme... they were very attentive to this and nothing felt rushed" Social Enterprise Kent
Our support helps you understand the impact of your complex change initiative, and adapt it in real time
Our support provides you with a clear understanding of the impact of your programme, and we use a learning cycle approach to help you integrate the learning and improve your programme in real time. We ensure we work from a robust and practical evaluation framework, and gather insight from stakeholders and other sources of data to evidence what is changing as a result of your programme and why. We share process learning, impact and practical recommendations in beautifully designed outputs to support decision-making and influence stakeholders.
Past project examples...
Research, evaluation and learning
Health equalities · VCSE evaluation · Community engagement · Programme learning
Understanding how a health equalities programme was contributing to change in East Kent
Social Enterprise Kent needed to understand how its Health Equalities Programme was contributing to change across communities, VCSE and the wider health system - and what was needed to deepen and sustain its impact.
Public health evaluation · Cancer awareness · Community outreach · Prevention
Understanding how community-based cancer prevention was contributing to change in Kent
Cancer Smart aimed to build awareness and confidence within underserved communities on cancer signs and symptoms, and screening. We needed to understand the difference it was making, what still prevented people from acting, and how it could be strengthened.
Health charity evaluation · Digital health · Theory of change · Learning framework
Understanding the change created by a digital health service, and helping it evolve
This mixed-methods, developmental evaluation helped the Royal Osteoporosis Society understand BoneMed Online’s emerging impact and improve the service during its first year.
