Category Archives: Evaluation
Portraying the change
How can you describe a cultural programme that has extended over 14 years, 9 countries and 3,000 projects? How do you account for its outcomes, the change it may have … Continue reading
Arts and Health evaluation (MCV5)
Learning about evaluation Fifteen years ago, at the end of Use or Ornament?, I rather naively raised the possibility of producing an evaluation handbook for arts projects. I’d been concerned … Continue reading
The problem of ‘impact’ (MCV 4)
A conversation with Peter Wright at the Creative Communities 3 conference made me realize that it might be useful to explain why I no longer use the word ‘impact’ in … Continue reading
A Different Heartbeat (MCV 3)
The gold standard in evaluation Twenty years ago, when I began thinking about how to improve the evaluation of community arts programmes, I turned to practice in health and medicine. … Continue reading
Back to evaluation (MCV 2)
Evaluation is intrinsic to creativity. Artists evaluate their work all the time, on many different levels and against many different criteria. The question only becomes difficult – ethically, politically and … Continue reading
On ‘the very idea of measuring cultural value’
There is a new blog on the DCMS website by Claire Donovan, an academic at Brunel University who has been commissioned to write a report on ‘the very ideaofmeasuring cultural … Continue reading
