Guest Bloggers

Valued colleagues and emerging voices write here on a wide range of subjects, bringing fresh perspectives, diverse experiences and new energy to the conversations this site explores. Young and emerging evaluators (YEEs) often receive special attention, given their role in the future of the evaluation and transformation fields, and in the world.
11
Sep
Candice Morkel's Top YEE Tips

Candice Morkel's Top YEE Tips

My top tips are a bit different from those you have been reading about lately in this series. They'
4 min read
06
Sep
Julian Barr's Top YEE Tips

Julian Barr's Top YEE Tips

Others in this series will, I trust, give you useful technical tips on evaluation designs, methods, data collection and analytical
5 min read
04
Sep
The Russons' Top YEE Tips

The Russons' Top YEE Tips

Top Tip 1. Do not compromise your standards of integrity. Janis Joplin is famously quoted as saying, "Don'
2 min read
30
Aug
Michael Patton's one Big YEE Tip

Michael Patton's one Big YEE Tip

There is a lot to learn as a Young and Emerging Evaluator. You need to know methodological alternatives. You need
3 min read
16
Aug
Benita Williams's Top YEE Tips

Benita Williams's Top YEE Tips

For young and emerging evaluators there is plenty of advice about how to gain the necessary skills and knowledge, and
1 min read
14
Aug
Juha Uitto's Top YEE Tips

Juha Uitto's Top YEE Tips

Unprecedented wildfires, deadly heatwaves, extraordinary floods, storms and droughts from California to Sweden, from Greece to Japan. The northern summer
3 min read
03
Aug
Fred Carden's Top YEE Tips: 'Whose knowledge' matters!

Fred Carden's Top YEE Tips: 'Whose knowledge' matters!

Whatever methods and frameworks we use, we tend to rely on the scientific, the 'objective' data and evidence;
2 min read
31
Jul
Zenda's Top YEE Tips 2

Zenda's Top YEE Tips 2

While the five 'Top Ten Tips' in my previous post for Young and Emerging Evaluators (YEEs) related more
8 min read
26
Jul
Zenda's Top YEE Tips 1

Zenda's Top YEE Tips 1

Given my 17-year long experience in evaluation, what are the top tips I would give to Young and Emerging Evaluators
6 min read
26
Apr
Oh for the Love of Sticky Notes! The Changing Role of Evaluators Who Work with Foundations.

Oh for the Love of Sticky Notes! The Changing Role of Evaluators Who Work with Foundations.

Julia Coffman is one of our best-known evaluation leaders working primarily with foundations. I always think of her as innovative,
1 min read