We want to identify all the unexpected positive or negative social effects that the meeting or process itself created.
About This Project Contagious Poetry, Belfast Patrick Lowell Kruse, a Queen’s University Belfast student doing a Masters in Education, set himself a personal challenge: write a poem with a stranger every day for a year, just to see what would happen. Using a 1940s typewriter to type up and give away each poem on the…
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Shared Reading as Embedded Evaluation – Evaluation Method 6 About This Project Shared Reading: Literature Read Aloud and Shared A transdisciplinary AHRC-funded project exploring how literary language representing dementia affects readers, leading to an ongoing programme of shared reading groups for people living with dementia. Led by Dr Jane Lugea (Reader in English Language, Stylistics)…
Creative Artifact Workshop – Evaluation Method 19 About This Project Reproductive Citizenship (ReproCit) ReproCit is a comparative, all-island research study examining how the historic legalisation of abortion in Ireland (2018) and Northern Ireland (2019) has shaped the sense of belonging – or reproductive citizenship – of people who can become pregnant. The study combines qualitative…
Situated Listening – Evaluation Method 07 About This Project DRIFT Lagan DRIFT was a floating pavilion on Belfast’s River Lagan, commissioned by Belfast 2024 as part of a city-wide programme of creative projects. A collaboration between OGU Architects, MMAS, and sonic artist Matilde Meireles, it used architecture, sound, and curated public events to reopen public…
Participatory Filmmaking – Evaluation Method 04 Two Projects Using This Method Project 1 The Prison Memory Archive A long-term participatory filmmaking and archiving project documenting the lived experiences of prisoners, prison officers, teachers, and visitors at The Maze/Long Kesh and Armagh Gaol (prisons) in Northern Ireland. Participants returned to the sites of their incarceration to…
Image Theatre – Evaluation Method 01 About This Project Days in the Bay – Tiger’s Bay Men’s Group Men from Tiger’s Bay, a working-class Protestant neighbourhood in North Belfast, devised and performed a short piece about their own streets. Using Image Theatre, they externalised what their community meant to them – without having to articulate…
Living Library – Evaluation Method REF 15 About This Project International Roma Day Living Library — Belfast City Hall As part of a three-day International Roma Day festival, a Living Library was hosted in the Great Hall of Belfast City Hall, bringing together five Roma women as “human books” available for open conversation with members…
The Routine Performance Evaluation – Evaluation Method 7 About This Project Behind the Chair: Using Hairdressing as a Research Interview Technique This research project investigated how embedding qualitative interviews inside a familiar, care-based activity could help participants disclose information on deeply sensitive topics. The researcher, a trained hairdresser with over 18 years of professional experience,…
Sensory Dice Walk – Evaluation Method 3 About This Project Creative Ethnographies: Sensory Walks Across Borders Maruška Svašek developed a playful, dice-driven sensory walking method as part of her ethnographic research and teaching at Queen’s University Belfast. The method has been used across multiple international projects, from Belfast’s peace walls to the streets of Delhi,…
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