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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)…
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…
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,…
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,…
Object-Based Participant Auto-Ethnography – Evaluation Method 07 About This Project Many Memories, Many Voices (MMMV) MMMV is a public engagement and research project that invites people living in Northern Ireland and Ireland to share memories, stories, and personal objects connected to colonialism and the British Empire. Through auto-ethnographic interviews, creative writing, visual art, and object-sharing,…
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…
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