Caroline Fiennes

Comment on research, evidence and measuring impact in the Third Sector, from director of Giving Evidence Caroline Fiennes.

Caroline Fiennes

Feedback can be part of the intervention, influencing the results

By Caroline Fiennes, Monday, 14 Mar 2016

Talk of charities 'proving their impact' is dangerous and misleading

By Caroline Fiennes, Thursday, 07 Jan 2016

Santa - if you deal in such things - what I'd love from you this year is more curiosity

By Caroline Fiennes, Thursday, 19 Nov 2015

Caroline Fiennes: Why we looked at every relevant study instead of doing a new - but limited - one

Thursday, 22 Oct 2015

Caroline Fiennes: Stop producing such bad research

Thursday, 08 Oct 2015

Caroline Fiennes: Data and logic are necessary for campaigning, but you need to win people over as well

Monday, 14 Sep 2015

Caroline Fiennes: Giving out grants at random? It might be no worse than the way they are allocated now

By Caroline Fiennes, Monday, 10 Aug 2015

Caroline Fiennes: Tell me about your bad experiences with fundraising and we can apply some science

By Caroline Fiennes, Monday, 13 Jul 2015

Caroline Fiennes: Did you receive a birthday honour? Then help me study whether there's a gong effect

By Caroline Fiennes, Monday, 15 Jun 2015

Caroline Fiennes: Charities can learn a great deal from behavioural economics

By Caroline Fiennes, Tuesday, 12 May 2015

Caroline Fiennes: It's not enough for research to be right - it must travel to where it makes a real difference

By Caroline Fiennes, Wednesday, 15 Apr 2015

Caroline Fiennes: NSPCC's stats on child addiction to porn don't stand up to scrutiny

Friday, 10 Apr 2015

Caroline Fiennes: When you check it out, the giving culture in the US is not all that it seems

Tuesday, 03 Mar 2015

Caroline Fiennes: Presenting assessments of a charity's performance doesn't necessarily increase donations

Tuesday, 17 Feb 2015

Caroline Fiennes: How do you make people give more? Research in the US has some surprising messages

Tuesday, 06 Jan 2015

Evaluation: Caroline Fiennes contends that charities do too much of it

Tuesday, 23 Dec 2014

Caroline Fiennes: In the decade since the Asian tsunami, we're marshalling the evidence with far better effect

By Caroline Fiennes, Tuesday, 16 Dec 2014

Caroline Fiennes: Listening to those we seek to help still seems unusual - but we should all be doing it

Tuesday, 11 Nov 2014

Caroline Fiennes: 'If we don't admit our failures neither we nor our peers can learn from our mistakes'

By Caroline Fiennes, Wednesday, 15 Oct 2014

Caroline Fiennes: If we don't tell MPs our views, how can they represent the sector?

Tuesday, 16 Sep 2014

Caroline Fiennes: Do we only publish graphs that go up? I suspect so

Wednesday, 06 Aug 2014

Caroline Fiennes: 'We should be on our guard against bad research that leads us to waste time and money - and possibly lives'

Tuesday, 08 Jul 2014

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