Table of Contents

Foreword to the first edition

Preface to the first edition

Preface to the second edition

Preface to the third edition

Acknowledgements & Dedication

Guide to contents

List of Guides and Diagram

Who and what this book is for

The value of doing everyday evaluation - and why we don't do it

Whose values?

But how on earth can we make time for it?

1 What is evaluation?

2 The evaluative research cycle

3 Open inquiry and audit review

4 Developing a culture of evaluation

5 Models and techniques

About the Author

Yoland Wadsworth is a path-breaker in methodology and use of social research and evaluation in health, community and human services. She is Adjunct Professor in the Centre for Applied Social Research, RMIT University, a Principal Fellow in the McCaughey VicHealth Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, University of Melbourne and a Fellow of the Australasian Evaluation Society (FAES). She is author of the bestselling Do It Yourself Social Research and of Building in Research and Evaluation: Human inquiry for living systems.