June Lennie
Biographic Data
| ID | 1668348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | June Lennie |
| GIVEN NAMES | June |
| FAMILY NAME | Lennie |
| SIGNATURE | LENNIE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensland University of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A holistic, learning-centred approach to building evaluation capacity in development organizations
There is growing pressure on development organizations to improve their evaluation systems and capacities. This presents considerable challenges for time- and resource-poor organizations in developing countries. Evaluation capacity development (ECD) approaches are needed that are appropriate and effective for such organizations. We argue that this requires a long-term, holistic, participatory, learning-centred approach that aims to develop learni…
Bridging the Divide between Upward Accountability and Learning-Based Approaches to Development Evaluation
A more complex and unstable development context and major shifts in development theory and practice over the past 20 years have created major challenges for evaluation. There remains a vast gap between the theory and practice of development evaluation that needs to be resolved. This indicates a vital need to bridge the divide between dominant results-based, upward accountability evaluation approaches and emergent learning, participatory and compl…
Increasing the rigour and trustworthiness of participatory evaluations
These methodologies focus more on knowledge generated and constructed through lived experience than through social science (Vanderplaat 1995). The scientific ideal of objectivity is usually rejected in favour of a holistic approach that acknowledges and takes into account the diverse perspectives, values and interpretations of participants and evaluation professionals. However, evaluation rigour need not be lost in this approach. Increasing the r…
An Evaluation Capacity-Building Process for Sustainable Community IT Initiatives
Participatory evaluation methodologies are considered to produce many positive and empowering impacts. However, given the complex power, knowledge and discursive issues involved and other factors, use of these methodologies can have contradictory effects. This article presents results from the implementation of a process that aimed to build the capacities of people in two Australian rural communities to evaluate their local communication and info…
Empowerment Evaluation
Over the past decade, empowerment evaluation has demonstrated its worth as a practical and valuable alternative to traditional program evaluation methodologies. Following a brief overview of the development of empowerment evaluation, we outline its 10 underlying principles and the three key steps involved in conducting an empowerment evaluation. A preliminary case study on our use of this methodology to evaluate the Good Start Breakfast Club prog…
Feminist Discourses of (Dis)empowerment in an Action Research Project Involving Rural Women and Communication Technologies
Women's empowerment is a central aim of feminist action research. However, due to the many contradictory discourses of empowerment, it has become a contested concept. Drawing on poststructuralist theories of power-knowledge, discourse and subjectivity, this article critically analyses the discourses identified in an Australian feminist action research project involving rural women, academics and industry partners. This project aimed to empower wo…
Care and Connection in Online Groups Linking Rural and Urban Women in Australia
Rural Women’s Empowerment in a Communication Technology Project
This paper presents selected findings from the evaluation of a feminist action research project that aimed to enhance Queensland rural women's access to interactive communication technologies (ICTs). Project activities aimed to be empowering and inclusive. They included online conversation groups, workshops and audioconferences. A model of women's empowerment is used that comprises social, technological, political and psychological forms of empow…
Deconstructing gendered power relations in participatory planning
Constructing and Reconstructing Rural Women in Australia
This paper examines the politics of change and the politics of identity evident in the recent history of Australian rural women's organizations, including the blurring of the categories 'farm women' and 'rural women.' Drawing on various sources, including our own current research, we identify several different ways in which rural women's identities are being constructed in feminist scholarship, in rural women's own (various) discourses and in the…
Bringing Multiple Perspectives to Australia's Communication Futures
A case study is presented of the multi-method and multi-discipline approach to anticipating the social and policy implications of new communication and information technologies (C&IT) being adopted by the Communication Centre at the Queensland University of Technology. This work draws on frameworks which include action research, structurational approaches to technology, coevolutionary systems theory, information economics, feminist and poststruct…
Feminist Discourses of (Dis)empowerment in an Action Research Project Involving Rural Women and Communication Technologies
Women's empowerment is a central aim of feminist action research. However, due to the many contradictory discourses of empowerment, it has become a contested concept. Drawing on poststructuralist theories of power-knowledge, discourse and subjectivity, this article critically analyses the discourses identified in an Australian feminist action research project involving rural women, academics and industry partners. This project aimed to empower wo…
Deconstructing gendered power relations in participatory planning
Increasing the rigour and trustworthiness of participatory evaluations
These methodologies focus more on knowledge generated and constructed through lived experience than through social science (Vanderplaat 1995). The scientific ideal of objectivity is usually rejected in favour of a holistic approach that acknowledges and takes into account the diverse perspectives, values and interpretations of participants and evaluation professionals. However, evaluation rigour need not be lost in this approach. Increasing the r…
An Evaluation Capacity-Building Process for Sustainable Community IT Initiatives
Participatory evaluation methodologies are considered to produce many positive and empowering impacts. However, given the complex power, knowledge and discursive issues involved and other factors, use of these methodologies can have contradictory effects. This article presents results from the implementation of a process that aimed to build the capacities of people in two Australian rural communities to evaluate their local communication and info…
Bridging the Divide between Upward Accountability and Learning-Based Approaches to Development Evaluation
A more complex and unstable development context and major shifts in development theory and practice over the past 20 years have created major challenges for evaluation. There remains a vast gap between the theory and practice of development evaluation that needs to be resolved. This indicates a vital need to bridge the divide between dominant results-based, upward accountability evaluation approaches and emergent learning, participatory and compl…
Constructing and Reconstructing Rural Women in Australia
This paper examines the politics of change and the politics of identity evident in the recent history of Australian rural women's organizations, including the blurring of the categories 'farm women' and 'rural women.' Drawing on various sources, including our own current research, we identify several different ways in which rural women's identities are being constructed in feminist scholarship, in rural women's own (various) discourses and in the…
Rural Women’s Empowerment in a Communication Technology Project
This paper presents selected findings from the evaluation of a feminist action research project that aimed to enhance Queensland rural women's access to interactive communication technologies (ICTs). Project activities aimed to be empowering and inclusive. They included online conversation groups, workshops and audioconferences. A model of women's empowerment is used that comprises social, technological, political and psychological forms of empow…
Empowerment Evaluation
Over the past decade, empowerment evaluation has demonstrated its worth as a practical and valuable alternative to traditional program evaluation methodologies. Following a brief overview of the development of empowerment evaluation, we outline its 10 underlying principles and the three key steps involved in conducting an empowerment evaluation. A preliminary case study on our use of this methodology to evaluate the Good Start Breakfast Club prog…
Care and Connection in Online Groups Linking Rural and Urban Women in Australia
Bringing Multiple Perspectives to Australia's Communication Futures
A case study is presented of the multi-method and multi-discipline approach to anticipating the social and policy implications of new communication and information technologies (C&IT) being adopted by the Communication Centre at the Queensland University of Technology. This work draws on frameworks which include action research, structurational approaches to technology, coevolutionary systems theory, information economics, feminist and poststruct…
Constructing and Reconstructing Rural Women in Australia
This paper examines the politics of change and the politics of identity evident in the recent history of Australian rural women's organizations, including the blurring of the categories 'farm women' and 'rural women.' Drawing on various sources, including our own current research, we identify several different ways in which rural women's identities are being constructed in feminist scholarship, in rural women's own (various) discourses and in the…
Deconstructing gendered power relations in participatory planning
Care and Connection in Online Groups Linking Rural and Urban Women in Australia
Rural Women’s Empowerment in a Communication Technology Project
This paper presents selected findings from the evaluation of a feminist action research project that aimed to enhance Queensland rural women's access to interactive communication technologies (ICTs). Project activities aimed to be empowering and inclusive. They included online conversation groups, workshops and audioconferences. A model of women's empowerment is used that comprises social, technological, political and psychological forms of empow…
Feminist Discourses of (Dis)empowerment in an Action Research Project Involving Rural Women and Communication Technologies
Women's empowerment is a central aim of feminist action research. However, due to the many contradictory discourses of empowerment, it has become a contested concept. Drawing on poststructuralist theories of power-knowledge, discourse and subjectivity, this article critically analyses the discourses identified in an Australian feminist action research project involving rural women, academics and industry partners. This project aimed to empower wo…
An Evaluation Capacity-Building Process for Sustainable Community IT Initiatives
Participatory evaluation methodologies are considered to produce many positive and empowering impacts. However, given the complex power, knowledge and discursive issues involved and other factors, use of these methodologies can have contradictory effects. This article presents results from the implementation of a process that aimed to build the capacities of people in two Australian rural communities to evaluate their local communication and info…
Empowerment Evaluation
Over the past decade, empowerment evaluation has demonstrated its worth as a practical and valuable alternative to traditional program evaluation methodologies. Following a brief overview of the development of empowerment evaluation, we outline its 10 underlying principles and the three key steps involved in conducting an empowerment evaluation. A preliminary case study on our use of this methodology to evaluate the Good Start Breakfast Club prog…
Increasing the rigour and trustworthiness of participatory evaluations
These methodologies focus more on knowledge generated and constructed through lived experience than through social science (Vanderplaat 1995). The scientific ideal of objectivity is usually rejected in favour of a holistic approach that acknowledges and takes into account the diverse perspectives, values and interpretations of participants and evaluation professionals. However, evaluation rigour need not be lost in this approach. Increasing the r…
Bridging the Divide between Upward Accountability and Learning-Based Approaches to Development Evaluation
A more complex and unstable development context and major shifts in development theory and practice over the past 20 years have created major challenges for evaluation. There remains a vast gap between the theory and practice of development evaluation that needs to be resolved. This indicates a vital need to bridge the divide between dominant results-based, upward accountability evaluation approaches and emergent learning, participatory and compl…
A holistic, learning-centred approach to building evaluation capacity in development organizations
There is growing pressure on development organizations to improve their evaluation systems and capacities. This presents considerable challenges for time- and resource-poor organizations in developing countries. Evaluation capacity development (ECD) approaches are needed that are appropriate and effective for such organizations. We argue that this requires a long-term, holistic, participatory, learning-centred approach that aims to develop learni…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Citizen journalism (6 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Participatory action research (5 works) · Action (physics (4 works) · Empowerment (4 works) · Evaluation and Performance Assessment (4 works) · Management science (4 works)