I am Dr. Aaron Kates. I am a clinical social worker and an independent evaluation consultant from Northwest Indiana. I am a recent graduate of the Interdisciplinary PhD in Evaluation Program at Western Michigan University. “I just want to help people.” This was the mantra I heard over and over again from my fellow students …
Hello, my name is Tamarah Moss, PhD, MPH, MSW I am the program co-chair for AEA Social Work TIG and an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, Bryn Mawr College. As a social work educator and a health and mental health services delivery researcher, I often think about self-care, …
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Hi, we are Djosy Charles, Leon Moraes, and Lisa Melchior from The Measurement Group LLC, a consulting firm focused on evaluating health, behavioral health, and social services for at-risk and vulnerable populations. We would like to share some thoughts about the Health Stigma and Discrimination Framework, which we recently found useful in the context of …
Hi, I am Dr. Aaron Kates. I am a clinical social worker and an independent evaluation consultant from Northwest Indiana. I am a recent graduate of the Interdisciplinary PhD in Evaluation Program at Western Michigan University. In this post, I will be sharing the valuable contributions social workers can make to your evaluation team. I …
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Hello! I am María Bustamante Liria, a researcher and Ph.D. candidate on food systems evaluation at the Technical University of Madrid. I am happy to share with you a Systems Thinking and Complexity Science principles-based framework that I had the pleasure to develop with Lauren Baker and Pablo Vidueira, both from the Global Alliance for …
I’m Emily Gates. I teach, write about, and practice evaluation at Boston College. My work focuses on the intersections of values, systems, and equity in evaluation, particularly in public health and education. I’m Francisca Fils-Aime, a PhD student at Loyola University Chicago. My research interests include international systems and global peace. We studied an exemplar …
I’m Cameron Norman. I am a professional evaluator, educator and designer and President of Cense Ltd. My work is focused on helping organizations to learn, grow, and develop using design-driven evaluation (DDE). Design-driven evaluation isn’t a technique or method but a means of strategic learning and development that connects the practice of design with utilization-focused …
Kia ora from Aotearoa, New Zealand. Our names are Maria Hepi and Jeff Foote and we are part of a cross-cultural research and evaluation team from the Institute of Environmental Science and Research, Universities of Otago and Canterbury and Victoria University of Wellington. Over several years, we have undertaken research in partnership with Hokianga based …
Greetings! We are KaYing Vang, Marah Moore, and Claire Nicklen – members of the IMEP team (a.k.a. the Integrated Monitoring, Evaluation, & Planning team) at the Collaborative Crop Research Program. We are also co-authors of the recent article, Applying a systems and complexity lens to building evaluation capacity: Learning from a multicountry donor’s experience. It …
My name is Bob Williams. I’ve been involved in the systems field since the mid-1970s. Over the past forty years I’ve learned to distinguish between three different approaches to systemic practice: Observing systems Thinking systemically Being systemic These differences have major implications for evaluation. First, the distinction between observing systems and thinking systemically. In an …
