Sage Podcast

This conversation with Anna Williams and Regan Smurthwaite is one of a 5-part International Evaluation Podcast series sponsored by the American Evaluation Association and the American Journal of Evaluation. Zenda Ofir and Deborah Rugg interview Anna and Regan about their article based on lessons learned in the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) efforts in advancing evaluation and learning on transformational change. Their article can b...

This conversation between Zenda Ofir and Deborah Rugg introduces a series of five articles, sponsored by the American Evaluation Association (AEA) and the American Journal of Evaluation (AJE), about international developments in evaluation. The podcast is inspired by Zenda and Deborah's Introduction to this new section of the AJE entitled “Transforming Evaluation for Times of Global Transformation." Their article can be accessed in...

In this podcast Dr. Norma Cuellar, Editor in Chief of the Journal of Trans...

Peter Blackman, born in Barbados in 1909, emigrated to the UK as a young man with a scholarship to Durham University.  Working as a missionary in Gambia, he became aware of the economic apartheid between black and white priests.  After the war, he worked as a mechanic on the British railway and became an active union representative, also publishing political poetry in small and obscure journals.  In this podcast, Chris Searle discu...

Using General Social Survey data, we examine whether any association between job insecurity and well-being is contingent on economic climate (comparing those interviewed in turbulent 2010 vs. pre-recessionary 2006), as well as income and gender. We find respondents with higher levels of job insecurity in 2010 reported lower levels of happiness compared to those similarly insecure in 2006. The positive relationship between job insec...

The special issue “Crossing Boundaries: Working and Communicating in East Asia” was conceived with the intent to give a stronger voice to research on business communication practices in East Asian countries. The realities of a global business marketplace call for knowledge that would deepen our understanding of other cultures and dismantle the monolithic concept of “Asia” so frequently held by the West. Our goal was to provide a fo...

A discussion with Dr. Raman Khanna from UC San Francisco regarding his paper CPOE and discussion regarding the politics surrounding its widespread adoption, literature and studies showed both improved outcomes but also some unexpected negative consequences, and how CPOE will affect the practicing neurologist now and in the future.