Link to the article in AJE

Link to the YouTube video of the interview

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About Gregory:

Gregory spends a lot of his time thinking about the nature of evidence and its role in policy decisions. He believes that applying sound evaluative thinking and appropriate research methods helps us down the path toward building a just and equitable society. His current research examines the "how and why" of evidence-based policymaking and how we evaluate interdisciplinary research.

Gregory currently works with Eval4Impact, helping organizations understand which aspects of their interventions are successful. He is also an honorary fellow with the Centre for Program Evaluation at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, where he co-taught evaluation for the past four years. Before making his way to evaluation, he managed legislative research and policy analysis on barriers to prisoner reentry and drug policy at a university in Illinois.

Gregory earned his PhD in Interdisciplinary Evaluation from Western Michigan University in 2020. He is the website coordinator for the RoE TIG and an associate editor for the Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation.

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Articles Mentioned:

• At the beginning I mention the RoE TIG’s definition of RoE, which is summarized here.
• Evaluation Journal of Australasia – Special Issue on Values in Evaluation
  • Vol 19, Issue 4: Guest Editors: Keryn Hassall, Kelly Hannum, Amy Gullickson and Mathea Roorda
  • Vol 20, Issue 2: Guest Editors: Ayesha S Boyce, Amy M Gullickson, Keryn Hassall and Kelly Hannum
• New Directions for Evaluation Volume 2020, Issue 166 - Examining issues facing communities of color today: The role of evaluation to incite change: Issue Editors: Leah C. Neubauer Dominica McBride Andrea D. Guajardo Wanda D. Casillas Melvin E. Hall
  • Neubauer, McBride, Guajardo, Casillas, & Hall (2020) Examining issues facing communities of color today: The role of evaluation to incite change
  • Hall (2020) Blest be the tie that binds
  • Reid, Boyce, Adetogun, Moller, & Avent (2020) If not us, then who? Evaluators of color and social change
  • Ghanbarpour, Mercado, & Palotai (2020) A language justice framework for culturally responsive and equitable evaluation
  • Dhaliwal, Casey, Aceves-Iniguez, & Dean-Coffey (2020) Radical inquiry—liberatory praxis for research and evaluation
  • Guajardo, Robles-Schrader, Aponte-Soto, & Neubauer (2020) LatCrit theory as a framework for social justice evaluation: Considerations for evaluation and evaluators
  • Moss & Crewe (2020) The Black perspective: A framework for culturally competent health related evaluations for African Americans
  • Lemos & Garcia (2020) Promoting culturally responsive and equitable evaluation with Latinx immigrants
  • Bowman (2020) Nation-to-nation in evaluation: Utilizing an indigenous evaluation model to frame systems and government evaluations
  • McBride, Casilla, & LoPiccolo (2020) Inciting social change through evaluation
  • Neubauer & Hall (2020) Is inciting social change something evaluators can do? Should do?
• Lemire, Peck, & Porowski (2020) The growth of the evaluation tree in the policy analysis forest
• Hurteau, Rahmanian, Houle, & Marchand (2020) The role of intuition in evaluative judgment and decision
• Brown & Di Lallo (2020) Talking circles: A culturally responsive evaluation practice
• MERL Tech State of the Field Series
• Engage R&D (2020) Listening for change: Evaluators of color speak out about experiences with foundations and evaluation firms

Contact:

EvaluLand: Website & Twitter (@EvaluLand)

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Topics Covered:

• How Zach got into evaluation and at Western Michigan University (01:12)
• What peacebuilding evaluation is (03:52)
• Evaluation specialists vs generalists (05:45)
• Research on evaluation and meta-evaluation (09:50)
• Prescriptive vs descriptive theories (22:35)
• Evaluation theory (25:00)
• Zach’s dissertation: RoE on peacebuilding evaluation (35:50)
• Adjusting to life amidst Covid-19 (40:10)
• What’s next for Zach (46:00)
• What’s giving life for Zach (50:55)

Resources mentioned:

• Western Michigan University Interdisciplinary PhD in Evaluation, including Michael Harnar and Chris Coryn
• EPP article on knowledge syntheses
• AEA Research on Evaluation TIG
• Blog describing working group’s updated RoE definition
• Weaver & Cousins article on participatory evaluation
• AEA Integrating Technology into Evaluation TIG
• MERL Tech conference
• Everyday Peace Indicators
• Digital Impact Alliance
• Evaluation Practice Reconsidered by Thomas Schwandt
• EvalCentral Unwebinars, Blogs, and Discussion Forum
• Equitable Evaluation Initiative
• Eval4Action Campaign
• Black youth-led movements: Black Visions Collective Reclaim the Block, The Twin Cities Coalition for Justice for Jamar, and Minnesota Freedom Fund

Contact:

• Zach Tilton: @ZachTilton on Twitter and zachary.d.tilton@wmich.edu
• EvaluLand: Website & Twitter (@EvaluLand)

About Zach:

Zach Tilton is a Doctoral Research Associate at the Interdisciplinary PhD in Evaluation Program at Western Michigan University where he is setting and pursuing an agenda for research on peacebuilding evaluation. He holds a BS in Peacebuilding and Business Management from Brigham Young University-Hawaii and an MA in Peace Studies from the University of Bradford. Along with peacebuilding evaluation, he researches technology-enabled evaluation, meta-evaluation, and participatory and collaborative evaluation. He is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, a Rotary Peace Fellow, an Institute for Economics and Peace Ambassador, and has worked as an evaluation practitioner for various international peacebuilding organizations. He is also currently an Evaluation Consultant for the Digital Impact Alliance at the United Nations Foundation, an Associate at Everyday Peace Indicators, and the Co-chair for the Topical Interest Group for Integrating Technology into Evaluation and the EvalYouth representative to the American Evaluation Association.

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