The survey workshop we ran with Kerry Bell from Bellmetrics in Toowoomba has now been and gone! The 15 participants (across Health; State government; agriculture and post-graduate students) really got into it and shared their experience as well as posing insightful questions. As one participant put it…”What I liked most was actively involving participants so that they integrate the skills from workshop”. Our aim had been what one participant described on the feedback form...”Improved understanding of framework/structure, analysis of data (quantitative and qualitative) - and overall confidence of constructing a survey in future”.
There has been some interest expressed in having us run the workshop elsewhere in Australia and we are considering our options – If you have any ideas or see a need somewhere, please let us know!
Jeff went to Canberra recently to deliver the final report on "Evaluating the Defeating the Weed Menace R&D Program" at Land and Water Australia and DAFF. Despite the shock of the closure of LWA, a number of staff attended the presentation and became involved in a very useful discussion. The evaluation concluded that the program had performed very highly against its ‘objectives, scientific outcomes and performance indicators' and with a strong positive feedback from researchers about the excellent management of the program.