Supporting innovative research and evaluation

About us

The Collaborative Evaluation Unit (CEU) works in partnership to build evaluation capacity, research and expertise in Gippsland.  As a local provider, the CEU understands the value of listening to the community and has the ability to deliver timely, rigorous and sustainable evaluations tailored to the needs of a wide variety of organisations.  The CEU provides training, workshops and mentoring to build capacity to enable organisations to conduct meaningful evaluations.

Our values

• Innovation: leading innovation in evaluation and research
• Integrity: commitment to ethical, robust research and evaluation
• Community: partnering with communities to transform lives

Our approach

The CEU is committed to academic rigour, best practice and high quality research. We use a participatory evaluation and co-design framework which puts communities at the heart of evaluation.

We are independent and have a unique ability to bring together high quality cross-disciplinary teams to better suit our partners.

The CEU encourages collaboration between higher degree students and our work to address issues of significance, particularly those in a regional setting.

Latrobe Health and Wellbeing Charter

The CEU is guided by the values and principals of the Latrobe Health and Wellbeing Charter.

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The CEU team Director, Associate Professor Joanne Porter leads a team of highly experienced researchers and evaluators who work across multiple disciplines.
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