“Cracking the impact nut” or How the Youth Investment Fund learning and impact strand responds to the challenges of evaluation in open access provision This blog has been written Matthew Hill, Head of Research and Learning at the Centre for Youth Impact.

Inspiral Targets: the measurement of everything and the value of nothing ​Dan Gregory, of Common Capital, makes the case for ‘uncertainty, complexity and modesty’, as he reflects on his recent keynote presentation at The Centre for Youth Impact Gathering 2017.

This blog was written by Jack Welch, who is an autistic and youth voice activist, and has been working with the Centre as a young researcher. You can find him on Twitter and Medium.

Pippa Knott is Head of Networks at the Centre for Youth Impact. She is part of a small team that has established and developed the Centre, and has talked increasingly about creating the conditions for meaningful impact measurement. This requires shifts in culture and behaviour as much as developments in methodological design and research tools.

When treasuring is measuring, and why we might need a rethink

In this blog, Bethia McNeil, Director of the Centre, reflects on how we can collectively shape a new path for evaluation and impact measurement. She argues that we need to do more than just think differently, we need to behave differently.

In an article originally published in Campbell Tickell’s CT Brief, the Centre’s Pippa Knott explores charities’ different objectives in undertaking impact measurement – and on whose behalf.

In this blog, Bethia McNeil, Director of the Centre explores the seeming disconnect between evidence and learning.

In this blog written for the Centre, Jack Welch, one of our Young Researchers, reports on his personal experiences from and thoughts on the Portsmouth Youth Social Action conference, held on 16 February, 2017.

In this piece for our November 2016 newsletter, Kenton Hall, Communications Officer for the Centre, offers his reflections on "proving" and "improving" and the questions this discussion have raised within the youth sector.

In this guest blog for the Centre, Dan Barton, Senior Area Youth Worker for Devon Youth Service discusses his experience of measuring evidence in youth work and the questions and thoughts it has inspired.

Dimitrios Tourountsis writes about his experiences and some of the challenges he faced as London Youth's Head of Learning.