People with the authority to implement the final changes (e.g., executives, officials); focus on actionable recommendations and policy influence.
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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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…
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,…
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…
The Tree of Legacy – Evaluation Method 1 About This Project PCEP “Build a Legacy with People” Showcase The Patient and Carer Education Partnership (PCEP) at Queen’s University Belfast hosted a one-day showcase bringing together patients, carers, academics, healthcare professionals, and students to redefine the role of people with lived experience as co-producers and co-educators…
The Celebration Evaluation — Creative Evaluation Method Case Study About This Project Bank of Ideas — Belfast City Council Bank of Ideas is a participatory budgeting programme run by Belfast City Council that gives individuals, unconstituted groups, and small community organisations a low-barrier route to small grants for creative community projects. Each year, project holders…
Philosophy Circle as Embedded Evaluation – Evaluation Method 5 About This Project Thinking Changes: Philosophy with Children for Critical Civility A programme delivering structured Philosophy with Children (P4C) “community of inquiry” dialogues in Northern Irish schools and youth settings to develop critical civility, empathy, and reason-giving among young people. Led by Dr Suzanne Whitten at…
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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