Surveys (& conversations) asking research scholars how useful they have found RSP (and in what that value consists), and what they guess they would have done otherwise
Comparison of the above with some people who narrowly didn’t join RSP (for one reason or another)
Looking at to what extent work done by research scholars while on the programme is directly useful
Our (=RSP management’s) independent impressions of whether / how much we’ve helped people
(I think we’re still finding out feet with this.)
There are a relatively small number of individuals who have gone through the programme, and it’s important to us to protect their privacy, so at the moment we don’t have plans to publish any of this. When we have slightly more data I kind of like the idea of publishing some aggregate summaries, but I haven’t thought seriously about whether this will be possible to do in a way which is properly privacy-preserving while also actually useful to readers.
Is there any impact measurement of RSP currently? I appreciate it is unusually hard, but have you had any thoughts on good ways to go about this?
We’re doing a combination of:
Looking at what people go on from RSP to do
For now this is just “where they’re going next” for people leaving, but in the future I expect us to check back in a few years later
Surveys (& conversations) asking research scholars how useful they have found RSP (and in what that value consists), and what they guess they would have done otherwise
Comparison of the above with some people who narrowly didn’t join RSP (for one reason or another)
Looking at to what extent work done by research scholars while on the programme is directly useful
Our (=RSP management’s) independent impressions of whether / how much we’ve helped people
(I think we’re still finding out feet with this.)
There are a relatively small number of individuals who have gone through the programme, and it’s important to us to protect their privacy, so at the moment we don’t have plans to publish any of this. When we have slightly more data I kind of like the idea of publishing some aggregate summaries, but I haven’t thought seriously about whether this will be possible to do in a way which is properly privacy-preserving while also actually useful to readers.