At Catalyst Consulting, we enjoy honing our skills, growing, and deepening our understanding of evaluation and research methods. We come together once a month for a lively discussion on a variety of topics. Over the past year, we spent three of these meetings...
How to measure big societal change? We love learning about new methods! And we recently had the opportunity to do just that. Last year, Catalyst was hired by a private foundation who is funding professional organizations to make big societal changes. Our role was to...
Do great minds think alike? Sometimes, yes. But a lot of the time, they don’t. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, it can be a great thing. Bringing people together who have different ideas, backgrounds and opinions can produce deeper levels of understanding...
Hello there, and welcome to the story of my 2022 professional identity crisis! Last year, after 12 years of being in business, I rebranded and renamed my company. Some said it was a great idea, that it would signal to the world that things were going well. Others said...
Introduction This blog post demonstrates the value of beginning to study informal science learning (ISL) participants and visitors based on intersectional identities. Intersectionality is the idea that human characteristics such as race and/or ethnicity, gender,...
In my last blog post, I shared some of the broad approaches that KPC has used to work with clients on projects that focus on diversity, equity, access and/or inclusion. Here I share more about what these terms mean to me (at the moment, because I feel like I’m...
Last week I submitted a proposal for a new project, and one of the required components from the RFP read as follows: Describe your experience/skills related to diversity, equity, access and inclusion (DEAI) in setting goals and evaluating the impact of your work. I...
Christmas came early in 2020, as I had the chance to interview an awesome group of leaders from across the informal learning and science communication fields to learn about their experiences with research-practice partnerships (RPPs). My job was to learn about their...
EvalFest (EF) partners Karen Peterman, Jane Robertson, and Kim Kiesewetter headed to the Motor City in July for the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Visitor Studies Association (VSA) where they participated in two different sessions as presenters. The VSA conference was...