Arts for Health Research and Evaluation: Challenges and Opportunities

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Arts for Health Research and Evaluation
Challenges and Opportunities

• Norma Daykin and Judy Orme

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UWE Arts Health Research Programme

• Reviews
• Project evaluation
• Experimental research
• PHD Programme/ Masters in Public Health

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Why evaluate?

• Demonstrate benefits for funding?
• Sustainability?
• Exploration?
• Risks?

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What to evaluate?

• Claims made for arts and health
• Clinical outcomes
• Psychological wellbeing
• Personal growth/education
• Social/cultural benefits
• Financial benefits
• Population
• Multiple goals

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What to evaluate?

• Outcomes
• Impact
• Process
• Sensitive, robust, fit for purpose frameworks
  and methods needed
• Resources for impact and process evaluation eg
  CASP
• http//www.phru.nhs.uk/casp/

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Approaching evaluation

• Independent evaluation
• Practitioner evaluation
• Challenges opportunities
• Expectations of funders
• Credibility
• Knowledge skills
• Impact

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Ethical principles

• Protecting participants
• Identifying risks
• Informed consent
• Privacy, confidentiality and anonymity

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Opportunities

• Supportive context
• Opportunities for collaboration
• Creativity and innovation

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Contact details

• Emma2.griffin_at_uwe.ac.uk
• norma.daykin_at_uwe.ac.uk
• judy.orme_at_uwe.ac.uk

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Contact details

• Emma2.griffin_at_uwe.ac.uk
• Norma.daykin_at_uwe.ac.uk
• Judy.orme_at_uwe.ac.uk