The members were elected during the REV pre-conference workshop on Innovation and Collaboration in Research & Evaluation, at the Ecsite Conference 2012 in Toulouse. This marks the official creation of the REV group, although the group has already been active for the past two years.

Ecsite welcomes the new REV group Chair, Co-chair, and steering committee. Ecsite thanks them for their commitment, as well as all members that have already expressed their interest in joining the group’s activities.

As stated in the Ecsite Strategic Plan, research and evaluation are between key elements for future development, growth and innovation of science centres and museums all over the world.

A special thank to Holly Hasted for her great efforts in creating this group, advocating of the need of this group to exist and leading to its official creation this year.

• Chair: Marie Hobson, Learning Evaluator, the Natural History Museum, London, UK
• Co-chair: Nils Petter Hauan, Head of Development, Vilvite Bergen Vitensenter AS, Norway

Steering Committee:

• Alena Suldova, Techmania science center, Czech Republic
• Aymard de Mengin-Fondragon, Head of the Département évaluation et prospective, Universcience, France
• Catherine Elvin, National Media Museum, Audience Researcher and Advocate, Science Museum Group, UK
• Holly Hasted, Exhibition Evaluation Manager, FRida & freD – The Graz Children’s Museum, Austria
• Montserrat Capdevila, Fundacio la CAIXA, Cosmocaixa Barcelona, Spain