Impact Evaluation Toolbox

This toolbox offers practical information related to societal impact evaluation. It should be seen as an ever-evolving page, with the aim to provide evaluation methods, guides and examples. If you develop or discover a useful technique for evaluation or have questions about the current content let us know.

Here we draw upon a range of sources, including the ESI team’s experiences and literature on societal impact evaluation methods, to provide a brief introduction to a range of evaluation methodologies and examples of how they can be used throughout the life of your project. Some of the guides are also supported with case studies of impact assessments conducted by researchers from the ESI team. We have summarised how we made use of different evaluation methods, how we set up these assessments and what we learned from using them in practice. Further we provide guides for writing about impact as well as tools that can be used to evaluate your project’s impact.