Reflecting Value

We’re returning to season 3 of our podcast, Reflecting Value: Evaluation Principles in Practice, for a bonus episode! In season 3, we’ve been exploring our co-created Evaluation Principles . Throughout the season, we’ve been checking in with cultural sector professionals, evaluators and academics about their experiences of using the Principles in their work, both as reflective prompts and practica...

Hosted by Chuck Blue Lowry , this episode of Reflecting Value: Evaluation Principles in Practice explores rigour. Keeping our evaluations rigorous is crucial if we want our findings to be accurate, giving us the best chance of learning from our activity and making meaningful changes to it. But how do we make our evaluation rigorous? How do we identify the appropriate methods for our work, and appl...

Hosted by Chuck Blue Lowry , this episode of Reflecting Value: Evaluation Principles in Practice explores proportionality. Proportionality involves doing less - and doing it better. It involves editing yourself down and knowing what you need out of an evaluation, and what you don’t. And it also involves being selective and saying no when you might not be best placed to do an evaluation. In this ep...

Hosted by Stephen Welsh , this episode of Reflecting Value: Evaluation Principles in Practice explores the role of empathy in evaluation. One of the 'people-centred' Evaluation Principles , empathy can be elusive. It can be hard to talk about it practically. But if we want to make evaluation count, we have to make it count for everyone. What steps can we take to be more understanding evaluators? H...

It's been two years since the Centre for Cultural Value launched the co-created Evaluation Principles – responding to industry-wide demand for support with evaluation in the cultural sector. So we wanted to check in. The third season of the Centre for Cultural Value's podcast, Reflecting Value: Evaluation Principles in Practice, features three new episodes exploring the ways cultural sector profes...

Created in partnership with National Theatre of Scotland This episode is hosted by Lewis Hetherington of National Theatre of Scotland who brings together six people who have been participants in creative work during the pandemic. The group explores their experiences of taking part in creative activity during the pandemic, and the positive impacts it had on them while in lockdown. Guests Lewis Heth...

This episode is hosted by Anna Woolf from London Arts Health Forum who explores the impacts of the pandemic on practitioners and the people they work with. Daniel Regan and Bablu Miah join Anna to reflect on their pandemic experiences, discussing what they will take forwards in their practice and what they will leave in the pre-pandemic world. Guests Anna Woolf (London Arts Health) hosts the conve...

This episode explores the cultural experiences people have through playing video and board games. We talk to experts about the social value of gaming and the ways in which gaming design and culture can lead different communities to feel excluded. Guests Marie Foulston on the ways games interact with our everyday lives, and how gaming is positioned in the wider cultural landscape [02:38 – 09:18] Dr...

This episode explores the power dynamics that underpin cultural participation and research. We discuss how where you live can impact on how you engage with culture and how authentic participatory research can help bring to the fore the voices of people who have previously gone unheard. Guests Avant Cymru on the challenges of telling stories from the Welsh Valleys and the power dynamics at play in...

This episode explores the different ways that cultural organisations and practitioners use the digital to engage with audiences. We explore the role of Tik-Tok in growing engaged audiences; how the digital can help build connections with communities at a hyper-local level; and the ways in which African communities are taking back ownership of their heritage through the process of digitization. Gue...

Hosted by Dr Robyn Dowlen, Reflecting Value shares the successes and challenges of communicating cultural value, bringing together a range of thought-provoking contributors for discussion and reflection. In season two, we speak to the people at the intersections of cultural participation from researchers to practitioners, cultural curators to participants. Edited and produced in house by Mikey Nis...

Hosted by Emily Zobel-Marshall this episode is ‘in conversation’ with Kully Thiarai , Amanda Huxtable , Keranjeet Kaur Virdee , Sharon Watson and Kathy Williams , five Leeds-based cultural leaders. Together they explore the health and wellbeing of the cultural sector workforce, and intersections with ethnicity and gender. This episode features discussion of the death of George Floyd and violence a...

When you take a closer look at who participates in culture, health and wellbeing research projects you’ll see that similar kinds of people are represented time and time again. So, what barriers to access are we creating when we bring culture, health and research together? And what can we do to enable a diverse range of people to fully participate in cultural programmes designed to address health a...

In the second episode of Reflecting Value we focus on the specific role of culture in addressing health and wellbeing needs. Research in the area of culture, health and wellbeing is often quick to jump to reporting outcomes, with the reporting of the processes underpinning these outcomes often falling by the wayside. So how do we find the right balance between showcasing outcomes, whilst also high...

This episode explores the ways in which the cultural sector is conveying its value to the health and social care sector. The successes they have celebrated, the challenges they have encountered, and the adaptations they needed to make to speak the language of health and wellbeing. In this episode we speak to Veronica Franklin-Gould (Arts4Dementia) Professor Sue Pavitt (School of Dentistry, Univers...

Reflecting Value – a new podcast from the Centre for Cultural Value – where we ask the big questions relating to cultural value in a reflective space. The aim of the podcast is to share successes and challenges associated with communicating cultural value, bringing together a range of people for discussion, debate and reflection. Our first miniseries launches in March 2021 with four episodes that...