Connecting Diverse Fields to the Practice of Evaluating Behaviour Change
Show me the Change
Complexity and the Art of Evaluation – Reporting Sheet
Topic: Connecting Diverse Fields to the Practice of Evaluating Behaviour Change
Leader: Geoff Brown
Participants: Mark Boulet, Che Sutherland, Kirsty Fenton, Sue Lewis, Colin Hocking, Vera L
Key Points:
• Feel Blue – Touch Green (Dr. Mardie Townsend, La Trobe University)
• Greensteps Program deliberately sets out to recruit students from across various disciplines to educate for sustainability – because sustainability is much broader
• “Working across the disciplines is “Really HARD!!” – lots of struggles
• Key Question: “When is making connections across ‘diverse’ fields (eg, human health, global health) needed?”
• Some connections like people-health and sustainable transport
• What are key topics that bring us together across disciplines?
• Resilience and Adaptation
• General observation that links between healthcare and sustainability are present
• Health/Quit campaign network has a wealth of knowledge about people and behaviour change
• Concept of “Real Synthesis” is a mid-level theory that brings together connections between high-level theories and lower level insights into specific problem focussed studies (eg, well design evaluation of a program) – can result in a expert
• Observation that within the “Sustainability” field
• Barrier to collaboration between the different fields can be the difference in language and clinging to expertise in their field
• From Discipline to Discipline – we need to look for common ways in which we do our work (our tactics and approaches)
• Another thing that cuts across disciplines is the emotions that our target groups
Outside of IF 8
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