We need to determine if the activity successfully matched the local context, uncovered community needs, and addressed real-world barriers.
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)…
Flag Mapping – Evaluation Method 20 About This Project Inclusive Mapping The Engage Summit is the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement’s annual conference for higher education professionals working in public engagement. The 2026 summit brought together researchers, engagement practitioners, and university staff from across the UK for a one-day programme of plenaries, workshops, exhibition…
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…
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,…
Model Making for Connection – Evaluation Method 8 About This Project Cementless Concrete Housing Co-Design A cross-national research project exploring how geopolymer (cementless) concrete could be used to build low-income housing in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Residents of six PPR public housing estates were invited to physically design their ideal homes using scale models — surfacing…
Make-Talk-Capture – Evaluation Method 16 About This Project Sew What — A Craft Club for Collective Nourishment Sew What is a community craft club delivered at The Larder in East Belfast, pairing hands-on creative making with guided discussion on themes including unpaid labour, food justice, and community wellbeing. Run by feminist oral historian and artist…
Speculative Utopias – Evaluation Method 04 Evaluation Method: 04 Speculative Utopias A guided imagination method for surfacing what your community truly wants — and why it matters. Phase 0: Logic Model & Topic Mapping This method fills the “aspiration gap” in evaluation — the space between what participants currently experience and what they genuinely hope…
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