Isabelle Bourgeois joined the Faculty of Education in 2019 as associate professor of program evaluation and was a faculty member at l'École nationale d'administration publique (Université du Québec) from 2012 to 2019. Prior to joining academia, she was an evaluation manager in the Canadian federal government. Her ongoing research work focuses on measuring and building organizational evaluation capacity in the public and community sectors. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation. In 2017, she received the Karl-Boudreault award for leadership in evaluation from the National Capital Chapter of the Canadian Evaluation Society. Learn more about her research at EvalCap.
Isabelle Bourgeois

Books
Bourgeois, I., Jill Anne Chouinard, & Courtney Amo. (2019).Growing the Knowlege Base in Evaluation: The Contributions of J. Bradley Cousins
Hurteau, M., Bourgeois, I. & Houle, S. (2018). L'évaluation de programmes à la rencontre des acteurs
Bourgeois, I. (2016). Recherche sociale: de la problématique à la collecte des données
Journals
Bourgeois, I., Fierro, L., Lemire, S., Castleman, A., & Cho, M. (2022), Laying a solid foundation for the next generation of Evaluation Capacity Building: Findings from a comprehensive review, American Journal of Evaluation
Buetti, D., Bourgeois, I., & Jafary, M. (2021), Examining the Competencies Required by Evaluation Capacity Builders in Community-Based Organizations, Evaluation and Program Planning
Bourgeois, I., & Maltais, S. (2021), Translating evaluation policy into practice in government organizations, American Journal of Evaluation
Full list of publications and other scholarly contributions.
Research interests
- Program evaluation
- • Évaluation de programmes • Évaluation des apprentissages
- Apprentissage organisationnel
- Leadership organisationnel