Anne Bergen is an evaluator, consultant and researcher based in Guelph, Ontario, who seeks to build a common understanding of problems and solutions through participatory research. She loves data and is a self-confessed evaluation nerd.

In this week’s episode, we explore the difference between evaluation that’s driven by reporting and evaluation that’s part of a learning culture. We talk about different ways of engaging with people and how the tools we use to measure may in fact affect behaviour. We ask what data might you already be collecting – and what might you be able to do with that? Knowing that people may interpret data in different ways, how can we be mindful of secondary audiences to our evaluation work?

Resources mentioned in this episode:

* 10C – the Guelph coworking space where we interviewed Anne. 10C was also a partner on the Useful Evaluation Project, from which this podcast was born.

* When we say knowledge mobilization, what do we really mean? The Knowledge Mobilisation Toolkit explores this question.

* Learn more about the Logic Model

* Anne’s website is KnowledgeToAction.ca

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.