
Reflections
Giving Back to the Community Equitably: Evaluating the Lotteries COVID-19 Community Wellbeing Fund
Dovetail evaluated a new appraoch to community grants funding, which started from the flaxroots to focus support towards communities most in need.
Taking the Pulse of the Creative Sector
Over the past year, Dovetail has been capturing the mood of the creative and arts sectors in Aotearoa. Here, Adela Wypych describes our approach and the value of an arts outreach survey.
When surveys get used as a blunt instrument
A feedback survey developed by a local business association about road safety changes around a primary school highlights the dangers of poor survey design - affecting both the quality of the research results and their potential input into decision-making.
Survey fatigue: Are we plundering people’s finite resources of patience and trust?
I wonder if sheer volume of requests for feedback surveys that we receive may actually be undermining my practice as a researcher – as someone who regularly employs online surveys in my own work.