Evaluation and Value for Investment
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Disrupting value for money assessment
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Living with the uncertainty monster • Lessons for evaluators
Living with the uncertainty monster
Lessons for evaluators
juliankingnz.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Living with the uncertainty monster • Lessons for evaluators
Three years of Evaluation and Value for Investment • A quick look back, and inviting your input for the year ahead
Three years of Evaluation and Value for Investment
A quick look back, and inviting your input for the year ahead
juliankingnz.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Three years of Evaluation and Value for Investment • A quick look back, and inviting your input for the year ahead
One minute evaluation, a thousand times • Embracing indeterminacy in AI-enhanced evaluation
One minute evaluation, a thousand times
Embracing indeterminacy in AI-enhanced evaluation
juliankingnz.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:47 AM
One minute evaluation, a thousand times • Embracing indeterminacy in AI-enhanced evaluation
AI and the Gell-Mann amnesia effect • Practical quality assurance strategies for evaluators working with AI tools
AI and the Gell-Mann amnesia effect
Practical quality assurance strategies for evaluators working with AI tools
juliankingnz.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:47 AM
AI and the Gell-Mann amnesia effect • Practical quality assurance strategies for evaluators working with AI tools
Evaluator Sorting Hat • If Hogwarts was a school for evaluators, which house would you belong in?
Evaluator Sorting Hat
If Hogwarts was a school for evaluators, which house would you belong in?
juliankingnz.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Evaluator Sorting Hat • If Hogwarts was a school for evaluators, which house would you belong in?
Navigating donor wants and needs in evaluation - Part 1 • The case of the 1000 Days Fund
Navigating donor wants and needs in evaluation - Part 1
The case of the 1000 Days Fund
juliankingnz.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Navigating donor wants and needs in evaluation - Part 1 • The case of the 1000 Days Fund
What's the value proposition of the Value for Investment approach? • What happens when we point the value proposition lens at the VfI approach itself?
What's the value proposition of the Value for Investment approach?
What happens when we point the value proposition lens at the VfI approach itself?
juliankingnz.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:47 AM
What's the value proposition of the Value for Investment approach? • What happens when we point the value proposition lens at the VfI approach itself?
Evaluator-free evaluation • What happens when an AI tool does the evaluation work - completely on its own?
Evaluator-free evaluation
What happens when an AI tool does the evaluation work - completely on its own?
juliankingnz.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Evaluator-free evaluation • What happens when an AI tool does the evaluation work - completely on its own?
Transcripts of one-minute and one-hour evaluations • Supporting information to accompany today's post, provided for transparency.
Transcripts of one-minute and one-hour evaluations
Supporting information to accompany today's post, provided for transparency.
juliankingnz.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Transcripts of one-minute and one-hour evaluations • Supporting information to accompany today's post, provided for transparency.
Spending to save: avoiding future fiscal costs • Spending taxpayers' money now to save taxpayers money later should be rigorously factored into policy analysis. But don't mistake it for public value.
Spending to save: avoiding future fiscal costs
Spending taxpayers' money now to save taxpayers money later should be rigorously factored into policy analysis. But don't mistake it for public value.
juliankingnz.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Spending to save: avoiding future fiscal costs • Spending taxpayers' money now to save taxpayers money later should be rigorously factored into policy analysis. But don't mistake it for public value.
AI-enhanced evaluation • Will AI make evaluators redundant? Or could it enable better, quicker, cheaper evaluation, boosting demand and making evaluators busier than ever?
AI-enhanced evaluation
Will AI make evaluators redundant? Or could it enable better, quicker, cheaper evaluation, boosting demand and making evaluators busier than ever?
juliankingnz.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:47 AM
AI-enhanced evaluation • Will AI make evaluators redundant? Or could it enable better, quicker, cheaper evaluation, boosting demand and making evaluators busier than ever?
Maximising public value through better data and evaluation • Towards an integrated framework for value-for-money in public investments
Maximising public value through better data and evaluation
Towards an integrated framework for value-for-money in public investments
juliankingnz.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Maximising public value through better data and evaluation • Towards an integrated framework for value-for-money in public investments
Interpreting evidence through the prism of explicit values • Short read
Interpreting evidence through the prism of explicit values
Short read
juliankingnz.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Interpreting evidence through the prism of explicit values • Short read
Applying Bradford Hill Criteria to observational evidence • Towards evidentiary criteria for causal inference in evaluation
Applying Bradford Hill Criteria to observational evidence
Towards evidentiary criteria for causal inference in evaluation
juliankingnz.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Applying Bradford Hill Criteria to observational evidence • Towards evidentiary criteria for causal inference in evaluation
‘It Depends’ Podcast • I was a guest on Matt Healey and Tenille Moselen's podcast!
‘It Depends’ Podcast
I was a guest on Matt Healey and Tenille Moselen's podcast!
juliankingnz.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:47 AM
‘It Depends’ Podcast • I was a guest on Matt Healey and Tenille Moselen's podcast!
Beyond the numbers: Growing value in NZ science • New Zealand's research reforms promise growth, but will its metrics hit the target or miss the point?
Beyond the numbers: Growing value in NZ science
New Zealand's research reforms promise growth, but will its metrics hit the target or miss the point?
juliankingnz.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Beyond the numbers: Growing value in NZ science • New Zealand's research reforms promise growth, but will its metrics hit the target or miss the point?
Goldilocks and the three criteria • A shout-out for developing value and a gentle push-back against false dichotomies
Goldilocks and the three criteria
A shout-out for developing value and a gentle push-back against false dichotomies
juliankingnz.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Goldilocks and the three criteria • A shout-out for developing value and a gentle push-back against false dichotomies
VfI meets TM: Monitoring that actually matters • How to rescue monitoring from managerial boredom
VfI meets TM: Monitoring that actually matters
How to rescue monitoring from managerial boredom
juliankingnz.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:47 AM
VfI meets TM: Monitoring that actually matters • How to rescue monitoring from managerial boredom