DEEP: Most significant change
Reflective practice and evaluation: most significant change
30 places are available in this session. Places will be allocated on a first come, first allocated basis.
What is DEEP?
DEEP is a co-production approach to gathering, exploring, and using diverse types of evidence in learning and development using story and dialogue-based methods.
The importance of meaningfully gathering and exploring stories of change
Outcomes-focused evaluation has long been promoted, particularly in services and programmes focused on change and improvement. Gathering evidence of people’s outcomes is included in the Social Services Performance and Improvement Framework. However, measuring and gathering change outcomes in ways that are meaningful can be challenging. There is growing recognition that people’s stories can be a powerful way to explore and learn from people’s change outcomes. Most Significant Change (Davies and Dart, 2005) is an approach to gathering and exploring change outcomes through stories that was developed in the context of public health and community development.
This session
This half-day session will introduce the essential of the Most Significant Change approach. It will outline the principles and practice of gathering Most Significant Change stories and detail how to explore and learn from these stories in story selection panels.
Who might benefit from the session?
The session will be of interest to people with a role in evaluation, especially those working in services, courses or programmes that are focused on change and/ or improvement. The session will particularly benefit people who implement the Social Services Performance and Improvement Framework.
Further information about the session.
If you would like to find out more about the session, please contact Nick Andrews at: n.d.andrews@swansea.ac.uk