Tagged: Evaluation

And so a fourth Access Assembly has come and gone, and a fourth Evaluation Report has been completed. Why go to all that effort to evaluate the event? To collect different types of data before and afterwards? To carefully look across that data with multiple eyes, to produce findings and come to final conclusions and […]

In recent years, UKRI, and its constituent research councils, have funded numerous initiatives that include flexible funding as part of their mandatory work programmes. In managing these flexible funds, research investments find themselves having to act as funding bodies, governing and distributing resources effectively and fairly – yet many have limited experience in doing so. […]

  One of the key aims of ACCESS is to bring diverse individuals and organisations together to support connections and spark new conversations in environmental social science. Our Annual Assembly plays a key role in this relationship building. Every June, we bring together some 80-plus environmental social scientists from across academia, the public sector and […]

We will be looking to implement some of the recommendations in Round 2. We hope these insights will be useful to other organisations administering funds and also to future Flexible funds applicants. For more information please contact us. Flex Fund Evaluation report Reflections on setting up a Flex Fund  

Early in the planning for the Assembly, we decided we wanted to welcome in-person and online visitors. It was important for us to: Invite people from various disciplines and champion the benefits of collaboration and co-production. Be inclusive and offer equally enriching experiences and networking opportunities to those in the room and those sitting at […]