The Southern Knowledge Transfer Partnership office will present an Engage@Lunch Webinar hosted by Dr Isabelle Bartkowiak-Theron, University of Tasmania, on Thursday, 28 August at 1.45pm.

Measuring Community Engagment: What are we waiting for? takes a humorous, yet cynical look at community engagement evaluation. Scientific commentators often point at the lack of scientific evaluations of community engagement. At the same time, the difficulty in measuring the various processes and outcomes attached to community engagement and service learning is widely acknowledged.

Nowadays, whether we take community engagement as a process or an outcome of research or teaching initiatives, or as an activity in and of itself, the large array of qualitative and quantitative methodologies to borrow from should allow us to pick and choose the evaluation tools that suit us best. The determination of (all over essential) key performance indicators then becomes a rather simple exercise in gauging the aims and objectives of an initiative.

We can all do a much better job at appraising community engagement, and pave the way for institutional leaders to acknowledge the scientific relevance of community engagement for organisations (academic or otherwise) and their partners (community or otherwise). So what are we waiting for?

To register for this workshop please email admin@engagementaustralia.org.au. You will be sent a weblink the day before the scheduled presentation.