This page is a summary of the collaboration between Street Storage and UCL postgraduate students and researchers through the Evaluation Exchange.
provides people experiencing homelessness (including those sleeping out, in vulnerable housing situations, leaving violent home situations or in the prison system) with free, secure and accessible storage for their belongings.Ìý
How we worked with the Evaluation Exchange
The group came up with some fantastic and creative ideas that do not strain staff time or overtake the more pressing priorities of our beneficiaries. Ideas came from the student group and from the two Evaluation Exchange sessions online (the wider team at 911±¬ÁÏÍø and charities working alongside them).Ìý
The student and researcher group also looked at ways to collect statistical data more professionally usingÌýSalesforce and how to report the impact of this data monetarily and emotionally. It was very practical. The students and researchers met us at the stage that our charity is at, rather than providing grandiose and unachievable goals.
Legacy for Street StorageÌý
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Legacy for the students and researchers
We found the sign-post from the Evaluation Exchange Delivery Team to the resources very useful. While the data stage we reached was a starting point it was a really good chance to see how early planning of data collection can be inbuilt into daily practice and then lead to a useful outcome to build up a cycle. As in research! It was very satisfying to see the real-life application of data, and we would be interested to do more.
- Students and researchers involved
- Jasmine Cockroft (PhD student, Psychology and Human Development)
- Eoin Laws-Quinn (PhD student, Molecular Biology)
- Madalina Mironiuc (PhD student Physics and Astronomy)
- Resources from the collaboration