Season 4 | Episode 106: How arts-based methods can enrich your evaluation of impact - with Dr Rachel Blanche

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 Follow Mark at @fasttrackimpact and @profmarkreed or on LinkedIn. If you want more information about training courses, please write to [email protected] You can download a written transcript of this episode here