About Us

We share our ideas, knowledge and experience to design a project that will deliver your objectives in a practical, efficient and effective way.

Approach

At Evaluation Solutions, we find that the best solutions come from sharing ideas and working in genuine partnership with our clients. Often, our clients know what they want to find out, but don’t know what questions to ask, or how to go about it.

We always start a project by asking lots of questions:

What do you want to find out? Why?
Who else has an interest in the research?
What do you want to do with the information collected?
Who are the people who can answer your questions?
When do you need to have the information?
What previous research exists (what worked and what didn’t)?
What strategic organisational documents or frameworks exist in this space?
How will the results be communicated back to staff and stakeholders?

We also share our ideas, knowledge and experience, to design a project that will meet your objectives and deliver the required outcomes in a practical, efficient and effective way.

Values

We are committed to:

Working in partnership with our clients
Robust solutions based on best practice
Innovative, practical and flexible solutions
Fair and unbiased independent research
Honest and straight-forward communications
Delivering on our promises

Team

Our consulting team is led by Evaluation Solutions’ co-owners Melissa Prichard and Barry Gibson, who are supported by a group of talented project staff and fieldworkers.

Melissa Prichard BSc, DipEd

Managing Director / Principal Consultant

Melissa is an expert in survey design. She has a wide range of experience in organisational development including organisational culture, 360-degree feedback and corporate staff surveys, as well as surveys for social research, stakeholder engagement and program evaluation. Melissa is an experienced facilitator and presenter, and takes a participatory approach in working with clients, with a focus on capacity building. Melissa also has extensive experience in managing complex project implementations, and designing custom online surveys and reporting solutions.

Barry Gibson

Technical Director

Barry is co-owner and Technical Director of Evaluation Solutions Pty Ltd. Barry manages the design and development of the online survey system, e-valuate-IT® and our suite of analysis and reporting tools. He specialises in building complex, unique and innovative data collection systems and tools that are easy to use for the end participant. Barry has endless ideas for bringing surveys to life and developing automated systems for capturing and reporting data in ways that deliver insights.