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The Evaluation Exchange highly commended at UCL East Engagement Awards

13 January 2025

Ruth Unstead-Joss reports on the Evaluation Exchange’s high commendation at the UCL East Community Engagement Awards.

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The Evaluation Exchange was highly commended at the UCL East Engagement Awards ceremony held on Wednesday 4 December.  

The Evaluation Exchange was nominated for the ‘Excellence in Co-creation’ award.  The Excellence in Co-creation award is for a team who have demonstrated excellence and innovation in the co-creation, development, and delivery of a collaborative project. The Evaluation Exchange team received a certificate and medals to celebrate being highly commended for the award.  

The UCL East Engagement Awards recognise and celebrate staff, students, partners, and projects that have exemplified mutually beneficial engagement between UCL and our local east London communities. 

The Evaluation Exchange began in 2017 to meet a pressing need among small charities and community groups in Newham to better evidence the impact of their work. Many of these organisations offer essential services to people facing complex challenges. The ability to demonstrate the effectiveness of their work is critical to meeting the needs of those who access their services and to securing future funding. To address this need, the Evaluation Exchange brings together teams of PhD students with the expert knowledge of local organisations to develop locally appropriate and sustainable evaluation approaches that work in the real-world. The Evaluation Exchange is delivered by a team from UCL led by Dr Gemma Moore in collaboration with the community-based organisation Compost London.   

It was an honour to be nominated alongside a selection of really strong candidates for the ‘Excellence in Co-creation’ award. Congratulations to the winners, Another Provision, a collaborative project between UCL researcher Hanna Baumann and artist Johann Arens.  

This is the first year of the UCL East Engagement awards. 30 nominations were made across six different categories. The panel, made up of community engagement experts from across UCL and east London partners, said they were impressed by the variety of creative and collaborative approaches taken, the widespread commitment to building long-lasting reciprocal relationships with groups not often heard in academia, and the meaningful impacts brought about.  

Thank you from the Evaluation Exchange to UCL East for your support, and congratulations to everyone who was nominated and recognised for their community engagement work. 


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