Ending the 17-year gap–The Role of PubTrawlr
17 years. Research into the medical and social sciences indicates that it can take up to 17 years before a scientific finding makes its way into regular practice[1],[2],[3],[4],[5] This fact… Read More
Evaluation in Health Services Settings: Reader’s Digest Version
Many years ago when the world was young, Drs. Victoria Scott and Kassy Alia-Ray and I wrote a book chapter on how to approach evaluation in community health improvement. That… Read More
Shhh! It’s a secret.
Have you stumbled across this very short blog post? Well, lucky you! PubTrawlr is now live and in beta testing! Over the next few weeks, we’ll be trying out various… Read More
101 Days of Community Psychology
I’m a community psychologist by training/degree, though like most quasi-academics, my portfolio and interests aren’t constrained to one field. This is the reality for community psychology. It is extremely broad… Read More
Wouldn’t mama be proud? A sentiment analysis of Elliott Smith lyrics
I’ve been an Elliott Smith kick this past month. Although I was one of the lucky ones to see him live (back in 1998 at the now-defunct Trocadero in Philly),… Read More
Making Sense of Data in Practical and Collaborative Settings
When working in community-based settings, there is often a reluctance to engage in evaluation. I generally try to emphasize three main points at the beginning of collaborations. Data is everywhere…. Read More
Not Another Implementation Barriers and Facilitation Post!
I think if I read another “barriers and facilitators” article about implementation, I might conk right out here at my desk. There was one just this morning! Hell, here’s one… Read More
Fitter, Happier, More Productive. Some words on Weiner el al (2020)’s “Measuring Readiness for Implementation”
Stop the presses! A readiness-measure review paper came out this morning in Implementation Research and Practice, a brand new journal from the SIRC folks focusing on implementation issues in behavioral… Read More
“Let’s just kick the ball around.” A first-time soccer coach & implementation
Update 4.15.21. And it’s not Spring 2021, and soccer is back. I’ve got a new cohort of U5 kids we’ve been having a lot of fun. I’m certainly a better… Read More
The Participatory Paradox of Objective Measures
This is a cross post from my old job. Just preserving it here for posterity. I slightly edited it to bring it current. Rewriting history and all of that. As… Read More
Rock Star Excess or Quality Assurance?
Hands down, this has always been the best story of Quality Assurance and monitoring I’ve ever heard. The general background: in the 1980s, the David Lee Roth-fronted Van Halen had… Read More
First out of the gate.
So this is the relaunch of Dawn Chorus. For the past ten years or so, I’ve been working with a group out of South Carolina. In the way that bands… Read More
