Marina Apgar (she/her/hers)

Research Fellow
Institute of Development Studies - Centre for Development Impact, England, United Kingdom

Marina Apgar is Research Fellow in the Participation, Inclusion and Social Change cluster at the Institute of Development Studies in the UK. She is a human ecologist with 20 years’ experience working in the research-practice divide with marginalised communities in international development supporting learning and change in complex systems. With an emphasis on systemic and power aware Participatory Action Research and use of Theory of Change she accompanies development and humanitarian organisations as they build, test and improve complexity aware monitoring and evaluation systems. She specialises in methodological bricolage to support inclusive rigour.

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Presentation(s):

• 13 - Making causality visible amid complexity: Approaches and tools for causal understanding that can be applied in complex, dynamic contexts

  Tuesday, October 10, 2023
  9:00 AM – 4:00 PM ET

• Using narratives to build theory, and vice versa, to evaluate and learn in complex settings

  Wednesday, October 11, 2023
  4:15 PM – 5:15 PM ET

• 22 - Change through the eyes of those who live it: Can Realist Approaches be Participatory and Community-led?

  Wednesday, October 11, 2023
  5:30 PM – 7:00 PM ET

• Using participatory narrative methods to conduct rigorous causal analysis

  Thursday, October 12, 2023
  10:15 AM – 11:15 AM ET

• The power of participation: A story of how a child labor systems-change initiative made visible causal pathways to drive change

  Thursday, October 12, 2023
  2:30 PM – 3:30 PM ET

• Participatory causal analysis: through the experience of child laborers

  Thursday, October 12, 2023
  2:30 PM – 3:30 PM ET

• Building inclusive rigor through stories

  Thursday, October 12, 2023
  5:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET

• Participatory life story analysis: A methodology for systems change

  Thursday, October 12, 2023
  5:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET

• Rigorous stories: How Outcome Harvesting can be a tool for understanding when, where, why and how change happens

  Friday, October 13, 2023
  10:15 AM – 11:15 AM ET

• Supporting inclusive rigour in outcome harvesting

  Friday, October 13, 2023
  10:15 AM – 11:15 AM ET