Tania will begin the session looking at how we can apply youth-centred evaluation in practice. We will then hear case-study perspectives from two charities, St Mary's Youth Club and Gendered Intelligence who will share the evaluation approaches they are using and why this works for them.
Speakers: Tania de St Croix, Lecturer at King’s College London; Aston Wood, Youth Development Manager, St Mary's Youth Club; and Finn Grieg, Director of Youth & Communities Department, Gendered Intelligence
All handouts are available in the handout section above.
Agenda
2.00pm | Keynote: Using a core components approach to describe provision, adapt, and learn - Mary McKaskill & Nick Axford
2.40pm | Networking break
3.00pm | Measuring what matters: a systems approach to evaluating impact and effectiveness in children's social care - Professor Rick Hood & Brendan O'Donovan
3.35pm | Evaluation in practice: Challenges, dilemmas and youth-centred approaches - Tania de St Croix, Louise Doherty, Aston Wood & Finn Grieg
4.35pm | Break
4.45pm | Social and emotional skills: Understanding and evaluating impact - Professor Robin Banerjee
Dr Tania de St Croix is a Lecturer at King’s College London. She is currently researching the experiences of young people, practitioners and policy influencers in relation to youth impact and accountability mechanisms, with Louise Doherty (ESRC...
Lecturer in youth and community work at Goldsmiths University
Louise Doherty is a Lecturer in youth and community work at Goldsmiths University teaching on a combined MA programme with three pathways- MA Applied Anthropology, Community and Youth Work / Community Development / Community Arts, and Research...
Aston is responsible for the delivery, monitoring and evaluation and development of the youth services, supervision of delivery staff and is the designated safeguarding lead. He has 20 years of experience working with inner-city young people, in a...
Director of Youth & Communities Services, Gendered Intelligence
Finn is a founding member, and now the Director of Youth & Communities Services department at Gendered Intelligence (GI). The department includes: Trans Youth Work; Families Work; Adult Well-Being Service; Community Development and Partnerships...