Katie builds in an evaluation of partnerships as part of a larger grant application

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I really try hard not to be just ticking the box of having them in the room, but really checking in with them. I don’t do any kind of formal surveys or evaluation of that per se, it’s more just a gut feeling I guess and trying to create a safe space where if they felt something wasn’t going how they assumed it would, then we could talk about that.

Interviewer: Since you brought up the idea about evaluation, have you thought about doing an evaluation about the process?

Yeah, so just recently actually, I was writing a grant and we built in an evaluation to use the tool from McMaster to actually evaluate the engagement process, but that’s the first time I thought about doing it formally. Because I’ve had a pretty positive experience, I guess, I haven’t thought about the need to evaluate. But as I get more engaged in engagement, I do think it’s important to evaluate that and also to contribute to the literature on that because there isn’t much. So yeah, we’ll see how it  goes.

 

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