Episode 39: How arts-based methods can enrich your evaluation of impact - with Dr Rachel Blanche

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This week, Mark interviews Rachel Blanche from Queen Margaret University Edinburgh to find out how arts-based methods can provide depth and rigour to an impact evaluation. They discuss a range of approaches including visual, performative and narrative methods, the types of evidence these methods can generate, how these approaches can empower participants in determining what’s meaningful, and how evaluating in this way can itself generate further impacts.

Rachel shares two examples of arts-based methods used to evaluate impact in healthcare research – a theatre project capturing data on dementia care (citing this paper) and (a participative creative inquiry on osteoporosis

The paper we mention writing together about evaluating impact with arts-based (among other) methods can be accessed here

Watch the training Rachel and I ran on evaluating impact

And you can find out more about Rachel's work here

You can download a written transcript of this episode here