We need evidence that shows how or why the engagement process specifically caused a desired change in policy, thinking, or practice.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
AI-Powered Conversational Evaluation – Evaluation Method 7 About This Project Co-Creating with Machines: AI in the Creative Industries A full-day event exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence and creative practice. The day featured six speakers, interactive breakout sessions using Padlet, and culminated in a live performance combining improvised music, AI-cloned voice narration, real-time visuals built…
Immersive Evaluation Design – Evaluation Method 1 About This Project Reassembled, Slightly Askew Reassembled, Slightly Askew is an immersive audio experience developed at Queen’s University Belfast’s Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) that places audiences inside the first-person perspective of writer Shannon Yee, who survived a rare brain infection and underwent emergency neurosurgery at the Royal…
PHOTOVOICE FOR SELF-EVALUATION – Evaluation Method 1 About This Project Photovoice Employability Capitals Project A creative evaluation project that asked final-year creative arts students to photograph their responses to nine employability capital prompts, discuss their images in one-to-one interviews, collaboratively curate a public exhibition, and collect visitor feedback — all to surface the skills and…
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