Research Design Partners (PPI)

For individuals involved in advisory or governance roles (like PPI) who help shape the research questions, methods, ethics, or dissemination strategy, rather than just providing data or receiving a service.

  • Collaborative Poem-Making

    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…

  • Shared Reading as Embedded Evaluation

    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

    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

    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…

  • Storyboarding

    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…

  • AI-Powered Conversational Evaluation

    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…

  • Photo Voice and Exibition Analysis

    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…

  • Build a Legacy with People

    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…

  • Manifesto Zine Making

    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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