Gail Vallance Barrington, professional writer and program evaluator, shares a lifetime of experience with you!

Gail owned and managed her consulting firm,  Barrington Research Group, Inc., for  35 years. She provided consulting services in program evaluation and applied research to a wide variety of clients in government, the postsecondary sector, and healthcare.

She has learned so much in her many years as an evaluator, consultant, teacher, and professor and she loves to write about and share her many hard-won lessons. She authored two texts, Consulting Start-up and Management: A Guide for Evaluators and Applied Researchers (SAGE, 2012) and Evaluation Time: A Practical Guide to Program Evaluation, with co-author Beverly Triana-Tremain (SAGE, 2023), and a number of articles and book chapters. 

She holds degrees from McGill University (BA), Carleton University (MA), and the University of Alberta (PhD, Educational Administration). She taught program evaluation and research skills to Masters students at Athabasca University, the University of Alberta, and Michigan State University for many years. Now she offers webinars, writes blogs, and mentors emerging evaluators. She’s also trying her hand at writing fiction and poetry.

Honors include the Canadian Evaluation Society award for Contribution to Evaluation in Canada (2008), Fellow of the Certified Management Consultants of Canada (2014), the American Evaluation Association’s Alva and Gunnar Myrdal Award for Evaluation Practice (2016), and Fellow of the Canadian Evaluation Society (2018).