Evaluation...

"Your report is an impressive evaluation report and gives us an excellent foundation for planning an even better festival next year"
Head of Learning & Interpretation, Museum of Science & Industry

Earlyarts & Youth Music..........................................

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Earlyarts worked with Youth Music on the Spotlighting programme delivering professional development for those working in early years and creative sectors in order to enhance the skills, confidence and resources for their work with young children. The evaluation reported on skills and attitudes the practitioners developed, and the potential impact on the children they work with, as a result of the sessions which covered music, story telling, and outdoor learning in woodland and beach environments.

Seeking Perfection............................

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Working with Nowgen and Manchester Science Festival  evaluating the partnership, experiences of young people, and audiences of this project which explores the subject of human enhancement. The team worked together creating a drama production investigating some of the facts, myths, benefits and controversies of this subject. The performance they created was shown during the festival, accompanied by a public debate. More here and here

Manchester City Council:cultural entitlement...

 Manchester City Council have contracted Sally to evaluate their two year pilot cultural change pilot programme. The programme aims to test models of what 'cultural entitlement' might be for children and young people aged 0 to 19. The evalutation will explore the transferability and sustainability of children and young people's activity and asspociated capacity building and professional networks; the accessibility of the programmes for their target participants; relevance of the programme to the Counci's Local Authority Agreements and Children & Young People's Plan; and to make recommendations with regard to rolling the programme out across the city.

Manchester Science Festival.................................

Evaluation Consultant for the 2008 to 2011 Manchester Science Festivals. The festival includes over 30 partners and over 200 events. Evaluation focusses on how effectively the festival delivers its intended content; how the festival and partnerships work or could be improved organisationally; and the effectiveness of meeting the needs of its stakeholders. Evaluation includes quantitative and creative qualitative information gathering, including creative consultation and feedback opportunities integrated into the festival's programming.

MOSI 'Wasted' Exhibition........................................

For MOSI (Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester): Exploring the exhibition's success in meeting its aims of being suitable for a target audience of families and school groups; in challenging preconceptions of waste disposal mechanisms; in relaying its intended key messages; and identifying the project's impact on professional practice.

Urbis: Art & SuperCity.............................................

Sally wrote the evaluation report of Art, a contemporary street art participation project by Urbis exhibitions centre; street art and youth culture company Spearfish; and St Ambrose Barlow School in Salford. The project developed young people's work on the theme of the urban environment. This was then integrated into a major architecture and public realm exhibition of the work of Will Alsop, entitled SuperCity. The evaluation gathered and analysed qualitative and quantitative   information from artists, project managers, teachers, students and visitors, to determine the successes and challenges of the project and make recommendations for the future.

Liverpool Capital of Culture: Little Acorns.........

Contracted as Evaluation Consultant for part of Liverpool Capital of Culture to explore a programme aiming to identify good practice in artists of all types, working in early years settings across Merseyside. The project invited the artists, staff and children to find ways of exploring the central themes of Liverpool, community, heritage, identity and family.

.........................................................CUE Creative

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Working for CUE Creative, part of the Institute of Education at Manchester Metropolitan University, evaluating several school projects as part of the final tranche of Creative Partnerships. The folio of projects with them ranged from early years photographs being used for consultation about Foundation Stage children's outdoor environment and reflection on how Foundation Stage children learn; through to changing the way an inner-city secondary school thinks by using live performance art - and so many themes in between.

.....Manchester Beacon for Public Engagement

The national Beacons programme of Public Engagement, encourages universities to become more open to a wider diversity of people by improving public understanding of university resources and assetts, and finding new ways to hold conversations with all types of public groups and individuals. Sally is working as Evaluation Consultant to the Manchester Beacon (Manchester University, Manchester Metropolitan University, Salford University and MOSI [Museum of Science & Industry] and Manchester, Knowledge Capital). The role includes mentoring the Director and Project Managers on project planning and evaluation cycles; providing support, training and resources for evaluation methodologies; and advising on evaluation of cultural and community work.

.................................Find Your Talent, Liverpool

As part of the national Find Your Talent programme, working with Liverpool pathfinders through Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: Evaluating Key Stage 3 pupils' understanding of live music within their Merseyside localities; the progression of their learning throughout the project; and measuring their change in opinions of the music national curriculum. Also evaluating the project's capacity to impact on teaching staff's knowledge of how and where to commission live music for schools, and interpret live music as a resource for school based learning.

..........................Hayward Gallery: See Through

Producing the final evaluation report summarising Hayward Gallery's three year young people's programme See Through. Over 8000 young people took part and the Hayward and its many partners learned a great deal about how to build and sustain relationships with young people, and how to work cross-departmentally, using their exhibitions programme as a starting point. The report provided a concise round-up of findings and achievements for the proejct's funder Paul Hamlyn Foundation; and for internal and external advocacy purposes.

..............Shout: St Helen's Children's Services

Sally worked with Isaacs UK cultural consultancy as Evaluation Consultant for a programme of creative interventions in children's centres and schools across the NW borough of St Helens. The project was co-ordinated by local authority children's services as part of their wider Give Us a Shout strategy to improve communication in children under 5 throughout the borough. The project involved a range of artists and therapists working across eight settings over a full school year.

...................................Engage: evaluation toolkit

Engage (the National Association of Visual Arts & Gallery Education) contracted Sally to write a toolkit on Evaluation & Advocacy, as part of its Making Connections professional development programme for gallery and visual arts educationalists. The toolkit is available from Engage.