Learning and evaluation partnership for the Wellcome Institutional Research Engagement Fund (IREF) (2019 to 2020)
As external consultants for Wellcome, we worked with the IREF pilot partners (University of Oxford and a network of Scottish Universities) to evaluate the IREF against its goals and Theory of Change, and to capture and map the learning and added value of this new approach to supporting public engagement around health research. We used a mixed methods approach, working closely with project partners and the cohort of IREF applicants to gather a range of qualitative and quantitative data from multiple perspectives to address the evaluation objectives.
