Evaluations

Art on the Inside: How Do Prison Art Teachers Maintain Their Professional Practice as Artist?

This evaluation asks the question: how do prison art teachers actively seek out opportunity for development and advancement in their specialist field? It empowers the voice of eight prison art teachers as artists working within a broad context of custodial settings including young offender’s institutes, adult male prisons and a ... read on →

Author Sophie Nickeas

Published August 2016

Artform Visual Arts

Organisation University of West London   Project venues HMP Highdown, HMP Lewes, HMP/YOI Bronzefield, HMYOI Cookham Wood, HMYOI Wetherby

Participant type Male and Female Adult Art teachers working in prisons/YOIs

Sample size: 8

Evaluation report: Music in Detention's work in the community and in Immigration Removal Centres

This report aims to assess the impact of MID’s Community Exchange programme, and the quality of the participatory music making involved in the case studies presented, as well as case studies and information presented in previous reports evaluating projects which took place between 1st April 2007 – 31st March 2010.  ... read on →

Authors Hazel Addley, Karin van Maanen

Published 2011

Artform Music

Organisation Music in Detention   Project venue Harmondsworth IRC

Participant type Male and Female Adult Detainees, Male and Female Child School pupils

Stitching a Future - an Evaluation of Fine Cell Work

An independent qualitative evaluation into the work of Fine Cell Work (FCW) in five prisons across England and Scotland, to identify the key benefits of being involved with FCW, establish why offenders participate and continue their involvement and investigate changes in soft outcomes such as behaviour, feelings about prison and ... read on →

Published July 2011

Artform Needlework

Organisation Fine Cell Work

Participant type Male and Female Adult Offenders

Sample size: 22

In Transit: unpicking the narrative of a participatory arts project

This report uses qualitative evaluation to define other key factors influencing participation in arts-based activities through descriptions of other narratives of the participants “buried beneath the surface”, where both social and artistic aims were achieved. read on →

Author Richard Ings

Published

Artform Dance

Organisation Thames Valley Partnership

Miss Spent in Custody

An independent evaluation of a pilot for a new skills development course for young women in custody delivered by Clean Break in April 2010. The evaluation report identified that the project convincingly demonstrated the value of drama exercises, creative education and the use of role play in teaching personal skills, ... read on →

Author Karin van Maanen

Published 2010

Artform Drama

Organisation Clean Break   Project venue Downview

Participant type Female Young Offenders

Sample size: 9

Interim evaluation report: Overview and impact of delivery work in Year 2

This evaluation is a participant-focused evaluation, looking at the responses of detainees actively participating in the project, members of IRC staff who were directly involved, and how members of the community responded to two of the community exchange projects which took place in 2008/2009. It covers the three key areas ... read on →

Author Karin van Maanen (Anne Peaker Centre)

Published 2009

Artform Music

Organisation Music in Detention   Project venues Dover IRC, Haslar IRC

Evaluation of the Sounds Good Pilot Programme

An independent evaluation of music based pilot programme for NEET young people. It focuses on the delvery and impact of the programme, especially regarding engagement in Education,Triaining and Employment (ETE), basic skills and educational achievement and young peoples' attitudes towards education progression routes. read on →

Author Maree Adams (Unitas)

Published November 2009

Artform Music

Participant type Male and Female Juvenile NEET

Sample size: 31

Talking to Byron

An evaluation of Talking to Byron, a drama-based knife crime awareness project, funded by the Home Office, that the NYT took into schools in three London boroughs from January 2009  — September 2009 (9 months). This report shows the impact of Talking to Byron on its audiences – which included ... read on →

Author Richard Ings

Published 2009

Artform Drama

Organisation National Youth Theatre

Participant type Male and Female Child School pupils

Evaluation of Supporters' Participation in Family Man Trials

AN EVALUATION OF SUPPORTERS’ PARTICIPATION IN THE REVISED ‘FAMILY MAN’ PROGRAMME DELIVERED IN BELMARSH, BIRMINGHAM, BRISTOL, HIGHPOINT AND WANDSWORTH PRISONS read on →

Author Avril Price

Published June 2009

Artform Drama

Organisation Boswell Research Fellows   Project venues Belmarsh, Birmingham, Bristol, Highpoint, Wandsworth

Participant type Male and Female Adult Families of offenders

Sample size: 21

From the Favela to our Manor - Translating AfroReggae

A narrative-based evaluation charting and discussing the impact and issues involved in brazilian-based AfroReggae’s project work in the UK with young people at risk in the inner city in London and Manchester in 2006. “What can we learn from AfroReggae for our own development of effective practice in creative and ... read on →

Author Richard Ings

Published 2008

Artforms Drama, Music

Organisation Peoples Palace Projects

Interim evaluation report: May 2007 – May 2008

An evaluation of the projects delivered by Music In Detention (MiD) in 3 Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs) during 2007-08. It covers the music interventions, quality of life (for detainees) and channels of communicaton (between IRCs and communities/wider public). Within these areas it focused on the elements of self-expression, culturally relevant ... read on →

Author Karin van Maanen (Anne Peaker Centre)

Published 2008

Artform Music

Organisation Music in Detention   Project venues Dover IRC, Harmondsworth IRC, Haslar IRC

Tagged to a number

An evlauation of the impact of involvement of young offenders and ex-offenders in the production and performance of an issue-based play and the impact on the audiences. The project reached its target of reaching audiences of at least 1,000 young people and the production had a clear impact on young ... read on →

Author Karin van Maanen (Anne Peaker Centre)

Published

Artform Drama

Organisation Synergy Theatre   Project venues Latchmere House, Richmond Police

Participant type Male Adult Offenders, Male and Female Child School pupils

Sample size: 885

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