Evaluations

Research report: HMP/YOI Winchester Applied Theatre pilot 2018

This report was produced by researchers at University of Winchester (Applied Criminology). It details the findings of an evaluation of a pilot project which was designed and delivered by BearFace Theatre CIC and funded by Hampshire Cultural Trust which was aimed at using a new Applied Theatre intervention to impact ... read on →

Authors Adrian Barton, Alexandra Russell (University of Winchester)

Published September 2018

Artform Theatre

Organisations BearFace Theatre CIC, Hampshire Cultural Trust, HMP/YPI Winchester, University of Winchester   Project venue HMP/YPI Winchester

Participant type Male 21-24 Offenders

Sample size: 10

Applied Performance Arts Interventions within Justice Services: Moving 'Forward' Toward an Integrated Sustainable Evaluative Approach

This report evaluates the impact of a resettlement programme using forum theatre and therapeutic creative delivery in prisons, adult resettlement centres and secure units.  It focuses on the impact good partnership has on effective projects as well as the need for long-term sustained work in prisons to ensure the highest ... read on →

Authors Richard McHugh, Hannah Smithson (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Published January 2018

Artform Theatre

Organisation Odd Arts   Project venues Barton Moss Secure Unit, HMP Manchester, Langley House Trust resettlement centres

Participant type Male Ex offenders

Sample size: 50

Creative Leadership and Forum Theatre: An evaluation report for Odd Arts

The report evaluates one of Odd Art’s creative programme that uses applied and forum theatre to increase leadership and skills. The following key outcomes of the Odd Arts Creative Leadership programme all demonstrate factors related to confidence, self-awareness and self-presentation, and, therefore, skills and capacities required to show creative leadership ... read on →

Authors Lynn Froggett, Laura Kelly, Julian Manley (University of Central Lancashire)

Published January 2018

Artform Theatre

Organisation Odd Arts   Project venues Care 4 Children, HMP Wymott, Langley House Trust

Participant type Male Juvenile Offenders

Sample size: 89

Supporting employability and personal effectiveness through the arts: international evaluation of this European Project by Jo Cursley

Supporting employability and personal effectiveness (SEPE) is the name of a qualification which was first conceived by the University of Exeter, developed and accredited by Edexcel and piloted through Superact by funding from Leonardo Lifelong Learning Project and the Medicor Foundation in five European countries. The arts were used as ... read on →

Author Jo Cursley (University of Exeter)

Published 2012

Artforms Dance, Drama, Music, Visual Arts

Participant type Male and Female Adult Offenders

Developments in the HM Prison Service and Safe Ground Family Man programme, and the Safe Ground Network during 2007-8: An independent review

The purpose of this evaulation was to examine the developments Safe Ground had made to one of its prison interventions, Family Man, and to the Safe Ground network during the period 2007-08 following recommendations made in previous reviews. It utilised semi structured qualitative face to face interviews, telephone interviews and questionnaires ... read on →

Authors Gwyneth Boswell, Fiona Poland

Published October 2008

Artform Drama

Organisation Safe Ground   Project venues Belmarsh, Wandsworth

Participant type Male and Female Adult Families of offenders, Male Adult Offenders, Male and Female Adult Staff

Sample size: 258

Made for prisoners by prisoners

This evaluation by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) of Safe Ground's 'Parents for the 21st Century' initiative, is divided into two distinct phases.  The first focuses on the process of development, whereby inmates played a major role in the production of the course materials - the aim of ... read on →

Authors Mary Ashworth, John Harland, Karen Hasley (National Foundation for Educational Research)

Published September 2002

Artform Drama

Organisation Safe Ground

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