Helen Simons Email & Phone Number

I started my professional life as a teacher and psychologist, but most of my working life has been in evaluation - evaluation of educational, health and social programmes. I take a democratic approach to evaluation believing that all participants and stakeholders olders have a perspective that contributes to evaluation knowledge and that equity and fairness are core values in a democratic society.Case study evaluation is my preferred methdology as it enables me to get close to presenting the experience of those who interpret the policies in the field and the social/political reality of the site in which the programe or policy is situated. I have also in my evaluation life spent much time facilitating institutional self-evaluation.In the second half of my career I turned to the arts, retraining to a degree, and now incorporate artistic processes, where appropriate, into evaluation.

Listed skills include Editing and Creative Writing.

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  Professor Emeritus Of Evaluation And Education

  University Of Southampton

  Sep 2006 - Present - Southampton, United Kingdom

  Offering keynote addresses and seminars on case study research, evaluation and the use of artistic processes in research.Conducting training workshops on case study evaluation and researchAdvising students in UK universities and abroad on how to research and write up research, especiallyqualitative research.Mentoring the design,conduct and writing up of evaluationsCreative writing, poetry, dance and movementEditing of creative projects and writing for publicationConducting professional development workshops (including using the creative arts)Directing evaluation training in programme and policy evaluation and instititional self-evaluation Acting as external reviewer for Faculties of Education self review in Universities nationally and internationally

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  University Of Melbourne, Australia; University Of East Anglia, Uk

  Psychology And English Literature; Education; Democratic Evaluation