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How Do You Know If You Are Making a Difference?
A Practical Handbook for Public Service Organisations
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This book is ideal for public service workers, managers, policymakers, and anyone involved in social care, health, and community development seeking effective ways to measure and communicate their impact.
This book sets out practical and theoretically robust approaches for understanding and tracking change that any organisation can use to evaluate their contribution to social change and become more efficient and effective.
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Why is it hard to know if you are making a difference in public services? What can you do about it?
Public services throughout the world face the challenge of tackling complex issues where multiple factors influence change. How Do You Know If You Are Making a Difference? sets out practical and theoretically robust, tried and tested approaches to understanding and tracking change that any organisation can use to ensure it makes a difference to the people it cares about.
With case studies from health, community, research, international development, and social care, this book shows that with the right tools and techniques, public services can track their contribution to social change and become more efficient and effective.
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Praised for being engaging, enlightening, and practical, this book is deemed essential reading for public service professionals eager to demonstrate their impact. Reviewers highlight its honest acknowledgement of complexities and the encouragement it offers to persist for meaningful change.
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ISBN: 9781447361930
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 November 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Policy Press
Illustration: 6 Tables, black and white; 34 Illustrations, black and white
Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 138.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 196
About the Author
Sarah Morton is Director and Co-Founder of Matter of Focus and Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She has been at the forefront of the emerging field of knowledge mobilisation over the last 25 years and has pioneered research impact assessment methods that are used internationally. She has a PhD in Social Policy, has worked in the third and public sectors, and held several posts at the University of Edinburgh including Director of Knowledge Exchange at the Usher Institute.
Ailsa Cook is Director and Co-Founder of Matter of Focus. Ailsa is a leader in the field of outcomes. Through her research and work with policy and practice, Ailsa has made a significant contribution to shifting the focus of public services in Scotland towards the outcomes that are important to citizens and communities. She is co-originator of the Talking Points Personal Outcomes approach, now used across 1000's of organisations internationally. She has a PhD in Sociology and Social Policy and before setting up Matter of Focus was Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh.
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