Monitoring and Evaluation plays a key role in science and engineering in a number of ways including:

• Gaining feedback from stakeholders about an engineering product or facility. This product or facility can be in an initial proposal stage, moving through iterations of continuous development, or has been finalized (a product released to the market or a facility that has been opened to users).

• Measuring and monitoring significant events (such as the number of products created on an assembly line, or the number of workplace health and safety incidents).

• Small or major production trials to assess factors such as quality assurance and safety.

In addition Monitoring and Evaluation may be used in a number of ways including gaining a single snapshot at a specific point in time, or conducted in an ongoing fashion to track key metrics in real-time. Data for Monitoring and Evaluation is created in a number of ways including qualitative research (interviews and focus groups with stakeholders), surveys, and the Internet of Things.

Insight is an expert in Monitoring and Evaluation, where Insight is a Company Partner of the Research Society and Insight CEO, Dr Mark Griffin, is a Qualified Professional Researcher with the Society.

Insight provides a number of services for Monitoring and Evaluation (including design, data collection, data analysis, and reporting). These include:

• Insight Social Research & Statistics - which conducts quantitative research (including interviews and focus groups) and qualitative research (including surveys and statistics) for a wide range of social research projects.

• Insight Business & Research Technologies - which provides a number of services developing the complex data acquisition and dashboard technologies often used in science and engineering, and the Internet of Things.

In addition to our consulting services, Insight provides two key training opportunities about Monitoring and Evaluation:

• See details about the workshops we present in research design and statistics.

• See details about the training we deliver in Monitoring, Evaluation and Research and Data Science and Data Management through a Registered Training Organization.