Programme
Chairperson: Tom Mullarkey MBE, Chief Executive, RoSPA
09:45 Registration and refreshments
10:15 Welcome
Tom Mullarkey MBE, Chief Executive, RoSPA
10:30 E-valu-it Update
Lindsey Simkins, Road Safety Research and Evaluation Officer RoSPA and Elizabeth Knight, Road Safety Manager, London Borough of Hounslow
- A refresher description of the website and toolkit
- Details of how both have been used since their launch, including the results of a user survey
- Details of RoSPA’s Evaluation Training
- Outline of further work planned
10:55 Practical Evaluation Experiences
Stephen Stradling, Professor Emeritus, Transport Research Institute, Edinburgh Napier University
- Real life examples from the speaker’s practical experience of how evaluations were designed
- Problems that occurred (such as recruiting participants) and how they were overcome
- Examples of how the results were used.
11:20 Refreshments and networking
11:35 How To Do Before and After Studies
Shaun Helman, Principal Psychologist, TRL
- How to design and conduct before and after Studies
- Real case-study examples
- How to analyse results and measure change
12:00 The Road Safety Observatory
Kevin Clinton, Head of Road Safety, RoSPA
- A description of the Road Safety Observatory (formerly BURSE) project
- Why and how it came about and its purpose
- How to use the Road Safety Observatory
- How it complements other activities in the Strategic Framework for Road Safety, such as the Local Authority Performance website and E-valu-it.
12:25 Lunch and networking
13:10 Workshop Session 1 & 2 - Parallel Sessions
Workshop Session 1: Writing Questions
Facilitators: Beth Fylan, Director, Brainbox Research and Duncan Vernon, Road Safety Manager (England), RoSPA
This workshop will cover how to write and test questions to ensure that they are clear to the respondents, provide the desired information and are not leading. It will also look briefly at analysis.
Workshop Session 2: Setting Aims and Objectives and Producing a Logic Model
Facilitators: Lindsey Simkins, Road Safety Research and Evaluation Officer, RoSPA and Elizabeth Knight, Road Safety Manager, London Borough of Hounslow
This workshop will cover the difference between goals, aims and objectives and how to write them, and a description of logic models and why and how to write and use them.
14:15 Workshop Swap Over
14:20 Workshop Session 3 & 4 - Parallel Sessions
Workshop Session 3: Planning and Piloting an Evaluation
Facilitator: Stephen Stradling, Professor Emeritus, Transport Research Institute, Edinburgh Napier University and Lindsey Simkins, Road Safety Research and Evaluation Officer, RoSPA
This workshop will cover the importance of needs analysis, identifying the problem and potential intervention, data, piloting evaluation methods and the intervention. It will also include the importance of planning the evaluation at the same time as planning the intervention.
Workshop Session 4: Running Focus Groups
Facilitators: Duncan Vernon, Road Safety Manager (England), RoSPA, and Dr Jenny McWhirter, Risk Education Adviser, RoSPA
This Workshop will cover the pros and cons of focus groups, how to set them up, how to run them and how to begin to analyse the findings.
15:25 Close and refreshments