Chris Fox - An Introduction to Evaluation

Chris Foxis Professor of Evaluation and Policy Analysis at Manchester Metropolitan University, where he is Director of the Policy Evaluation and Research Unit (www.mmuperu.co.uk). PERU is a multi-disciplinary team of evaluators, researchers, analysts, and economists and undertakes evaluation and applied research in the UK and Europe. Chriss work cuts across a number of policy areas. He has led numerous evaluations in the criminal justice system and currently is leading large, long-term research and evaluation programmes on reducing re-offending, and on prisoner education. Chris is also interested in social policy innovation and is Director of a European Commission-funded project Innovative Social Investment: Strengthening communities in Europe that is studying innovative approaches to welfare reform in ten European countries.Robert Grimmis Associate Director at Ipsos and leads the Ipsos Public Affairs, Political and Social Research Team in Germany. In this capacity, Robert is responsible for the design and management of major social research projects for academic institutions, NGOs and Private Sector Clients. His work includes developing research instruments, sampling strategies, designing indicators and measurements, setting up baselines measures and continuous performance tracking. Robert is also leading on the development of Ipsos political polling in Germany. Before joining Ipsos, Robert worked as an academic at Manchester Metropolitan University. Roberts research interests included social innovation and social investment and he has been involved in many European Commission funded research projects. Robert taught evaluation and social research methods to postgraduate students and continues to be a fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University.Rute Caldeirais a social scientist with a doctorate in sociology. She has 15 years of work experience, mostly in the NGO sector; the last eight years were dedicated to setting up planning, performance and monitoring systems both in complex not-for-profit and in community-based organisations with a view to enhance their ability to enable social impact. Rute currently heads Transparency International Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Unit, which she set up in 2011. She brings in extensive knowledge of methods and methodological approaches, of evaluations and assessments, and of organisational capacity to absorb learning from impact studies and evaluations.