Dr. Sarah Heath awarded ‘Best Article of the Year' by Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation

The Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Winnipeg is proud to celebrate the recent award received by Dr. Sarah Heath.

Dr. Heath was awarded 'Best Article of the Year' by the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation for her article entitled “Involving Youth in Empowerment Evaluation: Evaluators’ Perspectives”.

The award was presented to by Journal Editor-in-Chief, Jill Chouinard, in June 2023 at the annual meeting of the Canadian Evaluation Society in Quebec City.

The award-winning article is based on Dr. Heath’s doctoral dissertation and is co-authored by her thesis supervisor, Dr. Katherine Moreau, in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa. The article chronicles the perspectives of evaluators about involving young people in empowerment evaluation, which is a type of collaborative approach to program evaluation. As part of a larger mixed-methods study, the article reports data collected through surveys and interviews with evaluators.

As an Instructor III in the Department of Criminal Justice, Dr. Heath engages in evaluation work with community-based organizations, teaches Program & Policy Evaluation (CJ-4116), and is continuing to carry-out research on collaborative approaches to program evaluation.

The article was selected through an editorial selection process that comprised of the journal editorial board recommending up to five articles for review based on the following criteria: potential impact, originality, literature review, accessibility, and technical rigour.

The article was supported by a SSHRC Institutional Grant coordinated through the University of Winnipeg and funds from the Ontario Graduate Scholarship and the University of Ottawa Centre for Research on Educational and Community Services.

For more information on the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, which is an open-access journal, please check out the Canadian Society of Evaluation website.

Congratulations, Dr. Heath!