Episode 15 - Planning Impact Together: Katja Mayer on Participatory Evaluation

Katja Mayer gives fascinating insights into participatory methods
for evaluation, with a particular focus on evaluating science
projects that themselves have participatory elements. We learn
that it is a challenge for scientists to suddenly be moderators
of a complex debate and mediators of group dynamics. But we also
learn how this can be tackled and how a participatory process can
be democratising rather than exploiting. Also, participation does
not mean to include everybody, but to get representation right
for the purpose of the project at stake.


With a fundamental understanding that evaluation has to be part
of every research project and not something that is done by
auditors afterwards, Katja invites planning, designing and
creating impact together from scratch. This is how it is a
co-evaluative journey throughout the research process and
citizens will not feel evaluated themselves, but get a tool at
hand to be masters of their own impact.


Our focus episodes on participatory methods are drawing from the
experience we made in the special issue #54 of the fteval
Journal. The next episode 16 presents an interview with Emilio
Velis with an approach to open innovation.


Links


Special Issue of the fteval Journal:If you are interested in
receiving a printed version of the special issue, please feel
free to drop us a note! podcast [at] fteval.at

Katja Mayer

Whitepaper on Co-evaluation of Citizen Social Science

CoACT Project: Co­designing Citizen Social Science for
Collective Action

Paper about the term "Citizen" in Citizen Science

Antonella Passani, T6

ACTION Project: Participatory science toolkit against
pollution

Impetus Project: Impetus for Citizen Science

The “OIS Zam” conference series as a good practice example
for an “arena” for citizens, researchers and funders

Episode 16 on open innovation: Interview with Emilio Velis



This episode was made possible with the kind support of the
Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy,
Mobility, Innovation and Technology. Thank you! 


Music: Urbana-Metronica (wooh-yeah mix) (ft. Morusque, Jeris,
CSoul, Alex Beroza) by spinningmerkaba
http://ccmixter.org/people/jlbrock44; SouljaUnit Remix of
DeadRobot Music’s Surfy via
https://freesound.org/people/SouljaUnit/sounds/640175/


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