Category Archives: Adequate scope

Occupy Valentine’s Day and Genuine Evaluation

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Patricia Rogers

It is timely to consider ‘Occupy Valentine’s Day‘, which calls on us to reject the increasingly stereotyped rituals of Valentine’s Day and instead celebrate all forms of love in ways that are affirming, inclusive and uplifting: Celebrating love is wonderful … Continue reading →

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Update on ‘alpine whaling’ – scientific grazing

Posted on March 19, 2011 by Patricia Rogers

We recently reported on some curious developments in evidence-based policy in the state of Victoria in Australia, where the newly-elected State Government had overturned previous policy to keep cattle out of alpine national parks, arguing there was insufficient evidence to … Continue reading →

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Alpine whaling? – Interesting developments in evidence-based policy, episode 2

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Patricia Rogers

While Japan has ‘scientific whaling’, Australia might be beginning a phase of ‘scientific alpine grazing’, reversing a policy of removing cattle from summer grazing in alpine national park in the name of research. (Thanks to a number of GenuineEvaluation readers … Continue reading →

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Friday Funny – community engagement and evidence-based policy

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Patricia Rogers & Jane Davidson

Policy that is developed in response to clearly identified needs and through careful processes of community engagement – while being feasible in an adversarial political system and short timeframes?  Time for the Hollowmen to show us how it can be … Continue reading →

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“No dodgy stats” – highlights and lowlights of the year

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Patricia Rogers

As we run down to the end of our first year of Genuine Evaluation (the blog), we’ve decided to have a series of weeks focusing on what are emerging as key aspects of genuine evaluation (the theory and practice). This … Continue reading →

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