Nichola Martin began her evaluation career in job evaluation, fighting for participation, equity, and fairness in the United Kingdom. Today she returns to evaluation, as a student at Ryerson University. She is about to embark on her first evaluation as an independent consultant.

In this episode, we chat with Nichola shares her journey from evaluation to sceptic to cautiously optimistic evaluator. We confront the potential for evaluation to be a tool for control and oppression, while time and again returning to the potential for evaluation that empowers and creates meaningful moments of participation.

* Learn more about job evaluation, follow this link

* Meet Nichola’s professor at Ryerson University, Martha McGuire

* The Ontario Pay Equity Act

* We talk about a lot of different concepts, find more information about some of them at the following links: Open Space Technology, Appreciative Inquiry, Participatory process, Impact Evaluation, Logic models and theories of change

Music: Wavy Glass by Podington Bear. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License. Find Podington Bear and other artists at http://freemusicarchive.org/music.