Exploring what COVID-19 means for evaluation
October 8, 2020
While COVID-19 has significantly disrupted our lives, a closer inspection shows we are not all impacted in the same ways. For example, some groups have experienced enormous financial and social impacts, while others have not.
Recently, practitioners in economic develop...
A complexity view of contracting public health services
September 8, 2020
Public health and social services are often hard to specify, complex to deliver and challenging to measure. This research uses a complexity theory-informed lens to explore the challenges and opportunities of contracting out for public health and social services in Aotearoa N...
Videoconferencing: the new normal for getting work done
March 21, 2020
Working online and working at home are not new to us, and probably aren’t to you either. But suddenly we find ourselves doing it more, and under different circumstances. For example, meetings, workshops and interviews that a couple of weeks ago we’d have planned to hold ...
Envirolink Evaluation completed
December 9, 2019
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) commissioned Pragmatica to review the Envirolink Fund. The review aimed to inform MBIE of how well the Envirolink Fund operates and whether it achieved its intended outcomes and provided value for money.
Pragmatica f...
Rubrics — a tool for unboxing evaluative reasoning
October 1, 2019
Judy Oakden presented a session about rubrics with Kinnect Group colleagues at the 2019 Australian Evaluation Conference.
Rubrics are an intuitive way of implementing the evaluation-specific methodology. Rubrics can help to unbox, demystify and democratise evaluative reasoni...
Evaluation Building Blocks: A guide
March 14, 2019
With colleagues from Kinnect Group we published an e-book on the use of rubrics in evaluation.
Download your copy here
The Kinnect Group developed the ideas in this book over ten years of collaboration. In the introduction they observed:
“There are many other guides to eva...
Evaluation chapter in Social Science Research in NZ
December 6, 2018
Julian King and I recently published a chapter about evaluation in Martin Tolich and Carl Davidson’s introductory social research textbook, Social science research in New Zealand: An introduction.
For more information please click here...
“Making sense of the mess” Adaptive Action Lab
November 5, 2018
Change is quickening for individuals, communities, and institutions around the world. Often change brings excitement and opportunity, but sometimes it challenges us. How do we adapt to that change and cope with the messiness that results?
Judy Oakden recently collaborated w...
Applying complexity theory to contracting out
September 13, 2018
As part of the early stages of her Master of Philosophy, Judy Oakden was encouraged by her supervisors to attend the Operations Research Society Conference, in Lancaster UK, in September 2018.
As this was the 60th Conference of the Operations Research Society, the orga...
Dealing with complex change in evaluation
July 17, 2018
Glenda Eoyang, the Human Systems Dynamics (HSD) Institute founder and Judy Oakden, Director of Pragmatica, recently ran a half-day workshop at the ANZEA conference. What set the workshop apart was that Glenda led the session via Zoom from Minneapolis, US, while Judy ran the ...
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