Are you frustrated with traditional evaluation methods?

Do you feel your evaluation tools don’t reflect the creative nature of your work?

Are you finding it hard to engage participants in evaluation?

Do you get poor response rates from questionnaires?

Building on the Creative and Credible approach to evaluation, these workshops are for anyone in the cultural, creative, health and community sectors who wants to discover creative, accessible, and engaging approaches to evaluation. Led by Jane Willis (University of the West of England), the programme is designed to enable you to capture and share voices and stories of lived experience, better evidence the impact of your work and unlock sustained funding.

Over the course of three interactive, online workshops, you will develop knowledge, skills and confidence to evaluate creatively as well as credibly. You will complete the course with ideas and inspiration around how to harness creativity to generate appropriate, relevant, meaningful evaluations.

You will discover how to evaluate in ways that:

• Are enjoyable and rewarding for participants,
• Generate improved response rates, and
• Deliver richer and more meaningful data

Working collaboratively, we will co-produce creative solutions to real-world scenarios. Sharing ideas and practice, we will explore ways in which creativity can reinvigorate existing evaluation methods including questionnaires, focus groups, feedback and monitoring.

“Thanks so much for a wonderful course. The sessions were full of information without feeling overwhelming, I left each one full of ideas. I'm looking forward to embedding a more creative approach to evaluation across my programme”

Previous Creative Evaluation training participant

Programme Outline

Dates: Wednesday 24th April, 1st and 8th May between 10am – 12.30pm.

Workshop One:
Defining and Understanding Creative Evaluation

• Demystifying Evaluation
• Exploring Creative Evaluation
• Case Study of a Creative Evaluation Tool

Workshop Two:
Creative Evaluation in Practice

• Sharing Experience of Creative Evaluation
• Exploring Creative Tools
• Reimagining the Tired and Tested

Workshop Three:
Analysing, Reporting and Disseminating Creative Evaluation

• A Creative Evaluation Case Study
• Analysing Creative Data
• Applying Creativity across the Evaluation Cycle
• Ground Rules and Good Practice

The Details

• These workshops will run on Wednesday 24th April, 1st and 8th May between 10am – 12.30pm.
• You should aim to attend all three workshops, which will be held live on Zoom (links sent at purchase)
• Numbers are limited so there will be space for discussion and sharing.
• A reading list and handouts will be sent by email before each session so that you can print anything you might want to refer to.

Worried about cost?

We know times are tough at the moment and we don't want our network to miss out on our available opportunities. Please email [email protected] to discuss our available bursaries and any other access needs you may have when taking part.

“I feel a new zest for evaluation which I didn't have before.”

Previous Creative Evaluation training participant