Today marked the completion of a phase of evaluation work for Birmingham City Council, which we shared at an event with the Council’s arts team at Aston Villa Park. Thank you to all those who took part and attended. There will be more to share and reflect on following this, but, in the first instance, […]Continue reading
The nature of our work as project evaluators is that we can’t always easily talk about our findings as the audience for reports is often limited to immediate stakeholders. It was with this in mind that we were particularly excited about working with Birmingham City Council’s Cultural Development Service – not just because we would […]Continue reading
Yesterday I attended a Community University Partnership Initiative event at Birmingham City University. This brought together academics from several faculties of the University to meet two external organisations, City Year and Youth Sport Trust. Both are organisations making a difference with young people in Birmingham, but wanted to find out more about how they could work […]Continue reading
Early in 2018, Dr Serena Trowbridge from BCU’s School of English attended one of our research impact workshops, and asked us to run another session for her colleagues at the school. We were able to tailor a session for them on on 7th November, on Tracking Research Impact, applying processes to some of their live […]Continue reading
Post by Nona Wyld ASTONish is a programme that looked at cultural leadership and creative entrepreneurial training for emerging and established artists. The programme concluded with a symposium analysing the successes of the programme and challenges that arose. Participants talked about their experiences, their work and how they plan to move forward following the programme. […]Continue reading
In November and December 2017, we ran two impact workshops, ‘Planning For Impact’ and ‘Gathering Evidence of Impact After the Fact Workshop’. This was in recognition that people might come to discussions of their project’s impact at different points in the life cycle. These were attended by a variety of researchers and academics from the […]Continue reading
