Q13 - other comments

This was an interesting final question. There was a number of themes that came from each interviewees final responses.

A number of people talked about the need for support and resources on evaluation. Both during the time of application and also during the project. Suggested ideas included templates and guidelines as well as information available of different frameworks and their benefits.

A few people mentioned having time to look back at the project revisit it an look at impact - but I guess that would depend on whether the project produced an 'product' that could be evaluated for impact.

A few people mentioned the importance of incorporating the evaluation into the research cycle. And there was the mention of the importance of receiving constructive feedback from the university. This could be viewed as a need for identifying study audiences and stakeholders which was another theme that came out re the importance if one required some traction in implementing the outcomes of a project.

Another theme was the forms - make evaluation compulsory and give it importance by having a section on the application, but more importantly on the reporting pro-forma.

And finally the theme of networking was also evident. Participants mentioned the benefit of sharing findings with people who were interested ie L&T related research etc.