For activities where the research participants are also the direct beneficiaries, co-creators, or primary audience for the findings. The distinction between ‘subject’ and ‘beneficiary’ is intentionally blurred.
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…
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…
Storyboarding – Evaluation Method 14 About This Project Transplantation Tales Transplantation Tales is a public health education project led by researchers at Queen’s University Belfast, School of Nursing and Midwifery. Working with secondary school pupils, the project used creative storyboarding to raise awareness of kidney disease and organ donation, with winning entries shortlisted for animation…
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,…
Interactive Activity Book – Evaluation Method 1 About This Project Care Pathways and Outcomes Study A longitudinal study exploring how children who entered care before the age of five were faring across different placement types in Northern Ireland. The research team developed bespoke creative tools — post boxes, sticker posters, and an illustrated activity book…
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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