Shaw-IAU Workshops by the OAE

In this presentation, we will give a practical guide to the Europlanet Evaluation Toolkit (http://www.europlanet-eu.org/europlanet-evaluation-toolkit/), a resource that aims to empower outreach providers and educators in measuring and appraising the impact of their activities. The toolkit is intended to provide advice and resources that can be simply and easily integrated into normal outreach and education activities. The toolkit has been developed over a number of years with input from professional outreach evaluators and from active outreach providers within the planetary science community.

The toolkit includes a brief introduction to evaluation, a choice of 14 data collection tools, worked examples of data analysis techniques, case studies and tutorials.

About Anita Heward

Anita Heward leads communications and outreach activities for the Europlanet 2024 Research Infrastructure. She has over 20 years’ experience working in space and astronomy engagement, including for the Royal Astronomical Society and the National Space Centre in the UK. She has an MSc in Earth Observation Science from the University of Leicester, an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Sussex and a PGDip in Science Communication from Birkbeck, University of London. She has worked with Europlanet outreach since 2005 and is the first elected Secretary of the Europlanet Society. She is a Director of the Dill Faulkes Educational Trust Ltd and the Faulkes Telescope Project Ltd, and leads engagement for the Horizon 2020 EXPLORE project.

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