Dr Paul Duignan is a psychologist, social science and organizational specialist who works in the areas of outcomes, performance management, evaluation and assessing research and evidence as the basis for decision making. He has undertaken theoretical work on these topics (Outcomes Theory) and developed a simple but comprehensive method for organizations to work with outcomes, monitoring, evaluation and outcomes-informed contracting here. He has also been involved in developing the outcomes and evaluation software DoView. He works at an individual, organizational and societal level to develop ways of identifying and measuring outcomes which facilitate effective action. Read Paul’s bio and CV to find out more about his. The first posting in this blog sets out what his Outcomes Blog is all about.
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Dear Paul
You may be interested in a (universal) sustainability model I have been promoting, that has potential in evaluation. It has been presented once very briefly (among other methods) at an evaluation symposium here in Auckland, on my behalf, by Rachael Trotman. Seeing the breadth of your work on your blog here, and your interest in standards, made me think you might be interested in such an approach, which is based on ideas from ecosystem health. You will see various papers on it at the URL below. My most recent paper related to personal well-being assessment, that I see is one of the fields you cover.
My current interests are urban infrastructure options evaluation, since I am now working for a water utility company. We need usable
evaluation models that might help to separate conventional options from those which are more likely to favour sustainable development. We face two issues, getting infrastructure planners to accept that sustainability assessment can do the whole job, and then helping them to choose the sustainability assessment model. Naturally this is difficult given the many concepts of sustainability that there are out there, although I am hoping they will come to see the benefits of a standard approach.
What may be of interest to you is that the systems model integrates process and outcomes considerations, lessening dependence on the latter which can be expensive, and providing more opportunity for linking outcomes to specific policies and actions.
Best regards
Paul Luckman