When Distance Became Insight: Evaluating Social Impact in Vietnam and Cambodia

This post begins a short series reflecting on the field experiences and questions that shaped my recent book, Social Impact with the Capability Approach: Unlocking Development Stories in Vietnam and Cambodia. The ideas in the book did not emerge neatly from theory alone — they were shaped by real-world tensions, institutional constraints, and unexpected moments … More When Distance Became Insight: Evaluating Social Impact in Vietnam and Cambodia

From Measuring Access to Practising Justice: Why Indigenous Data Sovereignty Matters for Evaluation

For many years, evaluation in higher education equity has been dominated by a familiar set of questions: Who gets in? Who stays? Who completes? These questions matter. But they are also deeply limited. They privilege institutional accountability over student experience, numerical indicators over lived realities, and compliance over justice. They rarely ask harder questions about … More From Measuring Access to Practising Justice: Why Indigenous Data Sovereignty Matters for Evaluation