ABSTRACT
Having discussed the main conceptual and methodological aspects of our approach to evaluating the debate, we now turn to the practicalities of implementing the evaluation. When deciding how best to tell this story we were faced with a number of choices. Should we organise the account according to the chronology of the debate (at this time, X and Y were going on, and we were doing Z), across component parts of the debate (we collected data on stage S1 using methods M1 and M2), or possibly by specific methods that we used (we used method M3 when collecting data on stages S2 and S3)? In practice we have combined these approaches: first, providing a brief overview of the chronology of activities as they unfolded; second, describing the specific methods we used; and third, discussing in more detail the evaluation of key component parts of the debate. At the end of the chapter we describe the overall analytic organisation of the evaluation process, and how the three sets of evaluation criteria, identified in Chapter 2, are addressed in subsequent chapters of the book.
