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Hi Matthew, There is indeed a place to share evaluation results and ‘top tips’ in the context of UK science communication. It is hosted by the British Science Association and called ‘Collective Memory’: http://collectivememory.britishscienceassociation.org/ While I am at it, I will note here a few articles I have published in the open access science communication journal JCOM (also a good place for sharing evaluation findings) that are relevant to science communication evaluation: 'The problems with science communication evaluation' https://jcom.sissa.it/archive/13/01/JCOM_1301_2014_C04 'Evaluating impact and quality of experience in the 21st century: using technology to narrow the gap between science communication research and practice' https://jcom.sissa.it/archive/14/03/JCOM_1403_2015_C01/JCOM_1403_2015_C05 'Highlighting the value of impact evaluation: enhancing informal science learning and public engagement theory and practice' https://jcom.sissa.it/archive/14/03/JCOM_1403_2015_Y05 Best wishes, Eric --------------- Dr Eric Jensen, Fellow Higher Education Academy Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer), Department of Sociology, University of Warwick http://warwick.academia.edu/EricJensen Latest book: - Doing Real Research (SAGE): https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/doing-real-research/book241193 Check out a sample chapter here - https://us.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/73894_Jensen_Chapter_6.pdf Sociology at the University of Warwick ranked: The Guardian, Complete University Guide and The Times Good University Guide – 3rd QS World University Ranking - 23rd On 16 Aug 2017, at 07:39, Matthew Lee <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: Hello all, I don’t see much evaluation data shared on here and I’m not sure why. Maybe it’s not the place to share it? For those that think it is the place then behold all* of the evaluation data from Big Bang Bristol - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7mVs0QVH59RdHM5QUtrUVJ3WEk - Everything in this Google Drive folder you can use however you like, whether it be for grant writing or stealing ideas etc. Hopefully someone will find it of use…. In the Google Drive Folder linked you will find the following: The independent evaluation of our event The raw data used to evaluate our event and a much easier to read raw data set (in the folder ‘compiled response to evaluation docs’) The forms we used to collect the raw data A full report on Big Bang Bristol written by me (this is looooong) A short report on Big Bang Bristol, also written by me (much more palatable) Many of you already know this, but when I started out i didnt so I want to point out three things from being the lead organiser and from the event itself that I’ve learnt and will affect how i do PE/Scicomm in the future: 1. people doing PE/scicomm have very different opinions to what is and isn’t important or considered ‘engaging’ compared to the actual people they are trying to engage. 2. working with other people is hard, and is made especially hard if you are in charge and don’t tell the other people what the actual plan is so they don’t have enough information to do their jobs to the best of their ability. 3. Volunteer work is tough. Not being paid to do what is essentially a full time job is a bitch. Bonus point. At universities there's a whole load of people who can help and teach staff/students what to & not to do for PE/Scicomm. Is there nobody out there that can go into a business and teach them the same. There are some companies/people/organisations/etc out there that do really bloody cool stuff but just can’t communicate that to people. My feeling is there are people/orgs that do teach companies/etc this, but the problem is that companies/etc don’t buy this service - maybe I’m wrong…. If you have any questions about Big Bang Bristol or the evaluation, or if you want to chat because you’re about to do a similar event get in touch [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> All feedback is good feedback! So if you have any feedback, whether it’s what we should have done or shouldn’t have done, or if you just want to tell me i did a shit job then again get in touch [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Thanks! Matthew *when i say all i mean all of it. There is nothing else, and this includes all of the feedback that said the event wasn’t good and that the organisation was terrible. ********************************************************************** psci-com how-to: Once subscribed, send emails for the list to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. 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