Building in Research and Evaluation: Human Inquiry for Living Systems

ISBN-13: 9780367717605 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 360 str.

Yoland Wadsworth

Opis

Pioneer researcher Yoland Wadsworth offers a fresh and unique perspective on a core question. How to do research that truly enables health and human service professionals and organisations to do their work effectively?

Recenzje

'Sound and persuasive, insightful, important and inviting. A great contribution' - Michael Quinn Patton, author of the best-selling book, Utilization-Focused Evaluation

'Brilliant. I'm not aware of any other book of this nature. The examples are impressive' - Linette Hawkins, social work educator

'I remain critical of 'systems' models and biological analogies for organisational processes, but this work is unquestionably original and in major ways innovative' - Raewyn Connell, sociology professor

'Highly original. an ambitious integration of concepts. Credible and useful. Grounded in pioneering empirical research' - Danny Burns, professor of organisational learning

Spis treści

FOREWORD

PREFACE

DEDICATION

LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PROLOGUE

1. SOME INTRODUCTORY FOUNDATIONS FOR BUILDING ON

2. LIVING SYSTEMS

3. CYCLES OF RESEARCH, EVALUATION AND INQUIRY FOR LIFE

4. MORE (TRULY) LIVING HUMAN SERVICES

5. EXAMPLES OF BUILDING IN INQUIRY FOR LIVING HUMAN SERVICE SYSTEMS

6. CONCLUDING WORDS

APPENDICES

Appendix 1. How to deliver negative evaluation results constructively

Appendix 2. Key drivers of organisational excellence

Appendix 3. What s the Myers Briggs indicator got to do with it?

Appendix 4. An example of use of the sequence of whole cycle research questions: in health

promotion practice

Appendix 5. Other integral theories of change

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

REFERENCES

INDEX

O autorze

Yoland Wadsworth is a path-breaker in methodology and use of social research, evaluation and complex systems thinking in health, community and human services. She is author of the bestselling Do It Yourself Social Research and Everyday Evaluation on the Run.

She is Adjunct Professor, Centre for Applied Social Research, RMIT University, and Principal Fellow, McCaughey VicHealth Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, University of Melbourne.