Professor Jo Roycroft-Malone, Pragmatic Evaluation: Challenges and Opportunities

Wherever we are on the research and evaluation continuum we need to know:

• WHY – what do we already know from the evidence – how do we build on that
• WHO – identify & engage with likely users of research at the outset, including lay perspective
• HOW –appropriate (mix) of methods, consider use of existing data sets, capture context
• WHAT- use multiple data sources (impact, care, service, cost outcomes), triangulate
• WHEN – timing, formative/developmental, summative