Moving towards more equitable evaluation practice in the UK
A useful summary report on a recent workshop from the The Equitable Evaluation Collective.
The move towards rebalancing power within the social sector also needs to include holding up a mirror to how we design evaluation and how we collect and use data.
Coaching a direct report who asks for your help
A useful article that offers prompts to help you steer between telling people what to do and leaving them wondering how to do their jobs. Ten good questions to use including
- Get specific: “What are you planning to do next?”
- Get positive: “What’s already working for you in this process?”
- Get buy-in: “What’s the opportunity here?”
- Get resourceful: “What else do you need to move forward?”
- Get realistic: “What do you need to stop doing to move forward with this?”
- Get collaborative: “Who else do you need to talk with/work with/align with?”
How AI fails us
In the light of current discussions around ChatGPT now is a good time to revisit this essay from the Center for Ethics at Harvard. It is a big read but well worth the effort.
Big Women at Firstsite, Colchester
The wonderfully named exhibition curated by Sarah Lucas has just opened at Firstsite.
Women Photographers
Great selection of articles from Lens Culture.
Here are 24 of the most popular articles and interviews published in LensCulture in the past year. We hope you find some true inspiration from these remarkable women.
Collect 2023: Fair Director’s Choice
If you didn’t manage to make it to the Fair itself here’s a chance to check it out virtually. Also shows an interesting partnership between Artsy.net and the Crafts Council.