This course tackles the tricky area of demonstrating the impact of your work.  This is ideal for those working in Students’ Unions, community, voluntary or social enterprise sectors looking to develop their skills in researching and reporting. It expands on the different ways you can collect and use data, and looks at ways that this can be done innovatively, engaging with service users.

All of our courses are interactive, creative and focused on reflecting on your working practice, and developed in consultation with the community sector.

Learning Outcomes:

• Be able to describe, evaluate, and communicate the impact of your work
• Be able to assess the requirements for different types of reporting
• Evaluate the challenges of different types of research techniques and where to access support on using them
• Be able to identify different types of data and understand how you might choose to analyse it
• Understand how you can engage service users, customers or your audience creatively in measuring your impact

Course Schedule:

Day 1

• A chance to share current experiences and problem solve issues you have faced
• Responding to types of reporting processes
• Research techniques: desk-based research, surveys, interviews
• How to evidence different types of working
• Data Protection

Day 2

• Dealing with data, an introduction to working with different types of data and the limitations and challenges
• Beyond KPI’s: A Creative Enhancement Based Approach to Planning and Evaluation
• Using  case studies effectively
• User-led impact mechanisms, storytelling, video work and visual arts as integral and robust reporting mechanisms

This event is ideal for those working in Students’ Unions, community, voluntary or social enterprise sectors looking to develop their skills in researching and reporting.