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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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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