Webinar - , 09-11-2023

Experiments in Equitable Evaluation

Speaker(s):

Bio: Lauren Souter is Audience Research and Advocacy Manager, working across the Science Museum Group. Lauren is currently leading the Audience Research and Advocacy Team to take action to embed equity into their day-to-day research practice across 5 different work areas: research design, recruitment, data analysis, dissemination and team mindset and culture.

Bio: Yu-Shan is a Senior Consultant at TSIC. She has conducted 30+ monitoring, evaluation and learning projects with clients focused on issues such as equality, education, climate change and community development. Her clients include Comic Relief, British Council, OVO Foundation and the Science Museum Group. She specialised in equitable evaluation and data visualisation/storytelling. She is part of the coordinating team at the Equitable Evaluation Collective, which was established to enable and promote equity centred practice in social sector evaluation. Prior to TSIC, she worked in management consulting at KPMG, where she advised 10+ social ventures in sectors ranging from children and young people to sustainable agriculture, on business strategy, corporate partnership and organisational design. She also has experience in a start-up accelerator, an education charity and a sustainability business. She holds an MSc in Management from Imperial College London and a BA in Foreign Languages and Literatures with a minor in sustainability development from National Taiwan University. She was also in a 6-month scholar programme with McKinsey & Company.

Abstract:

The Science Museum Group (SMG) worked with The Social Investment Consultancy (TSIC) to conduct a summative evaluation of Medicine: the Wellcome Galleries at the Science Museum. The methodology for the project applied equitable evaluation principles to offer new insights on visitor research as well as on the Galleries. Community Leaders were engaged to co-produce the evaluation, working with SMG and TSIC to refine the research questions, create methodologies and develop the project outputs. Using innovative evaluation methodologies, the project gathered Community Leaders and young people’s feedback on the Galleries. The results were represented in a report and creative film.

 

The webinar will be a case study with speakers outlining the project, focussing on methodology, as well as discussing lessons learnt and answering audience questions. Speakers from both SMG and TSIC will offer both the perspective of an in-house researcher/client and of a consultancy, specialising in socially engaged practice.