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Public Lecture on ’Evaluation for the Public Good’
The PhD Child and Youth Research are delighted to host a Public Lecture on 'Evaluation for the Public Good' by Professor Jennifer Greene, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Venue: MY243, Aras Moyola, NUI Galway
Time: 6 pm, Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Jennifer C. Greene is a professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her work focuses on the intersection of social science methodology and social policy and aspires to be both methodologically innovative and socially responsible. Professor Greene’s methodological research has concentrated on advancing qualitative and mixed methods approaches to social inquiry, as well as democratic commitments in evaluation practice. Professor Greene has had a distinguished career since gaining her PhD in Educational Psychology at Stanford University in 1976. She has taught across educational psychology, policy analysis and evaluation methodologies at the Universities of Rhode Island, Cornell and Illinois. She has an impressive list of publications and is a frequent keynote speaker. Professor Greene has held leadership positions in the American Evaluation Association and the American Educational Research Association.