The ChEW Blog

Three months on, Charlotte Turner shares her reflections from the ChEW Festival 2025

ImpactEd Evaluation share how bringing 'on the ground' voices into evaluation early on improves the quality of the evaluation as well as the culture around it

“Agile” is a popular phrase in workplaces these days, particularly in the fields of technology and product management. This approach, however, - often characterised by being quick and iterative and following short cycles of work - is very much used in the research and evaluation space too. One of our key principles and values at ImpactEd Evaluation is being flexible and nimble in response to partner needs, which goes hand-in-hand with an agile approach to evaluation. Dealing

Faced with choosing whether to self-evaluate or commission an evaluator? This blog provides a checklist to help you to decide.

Jo Haffenden discusses the strategic considerations behind the Masonic Charitable Foundation's decision to commission evaluations.

I have spent nearly twenty years working as an evaluation practitioner in many different contexts. For about the first ten years of my...

At our first ‘Bitesize’ event in February the evaluation team from Scope shared their experience of taking a co-production approach. The...

Which elements of Crisis' housing support are most effective for supporting people out of homelessness? Using a Sucess Case Methodology

What does evaluation and impact measurement like during and after the covid-19 pandemic? Stephen Miller, Chair of CHEW and Head of Impact...