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      Participatory evaluation for large-scale arts programmes: challenges, adaptations and unexpected shifts in culture

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      UCL Press
      participation, co-production, evaluation, arts, culture

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          Researchers at Staffordshire University have a long history of undertaking community-based research in and with communities in Stoke-on-Trent. Commitment to the principles and practice of participatory research by the university’s Creative Communities Unit (CCU) team led to an approach to participatory action research called Get Talking. This article highlights the use of Get Talking to evaluate Appetite, an Arts Council England Creative People and Places project in Stoke-on-Trent. Staffordshire University conducted a participatory evaluation using Get Talking for the three years of the programme’s first phase. As well as reflecting on the strengths of the approach, we also discuss the ways in which the approach was adapted in order to address some of the key challenges that were encountered, and the impact of taking a participatory approach to the evaluation on the programme’s culture in relation to community engagement and co-production.

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            Ethical challenges for the "outside" researcher in community-based participatory research.

            Although community-based participatory research (CBPR) shares many of the core values of health education and related fields, the outside researcher embracing this approach to inquiry frequently is confronted with thorny ethical challenges. Following a brief review of the conceptual and historical roots of CBPR, Kelly's ecological principles for community-based research and Jones's three-tiered framework for understanding racism are introduced as useful frameworks for helping explore several key challenges. These are (a) achieving a true "community-driven" agenda; (b) insider-outsider tensions; (c) real and perceived racism; (d) the limitations of "participation"; and (e) issues involving the sharing, ownership, and use of findings for action. Case studies are used in an initial exploration of these topics. Green et al.'s guidelines for appraising CBPR projects then are highlighted as an important tool for helping CBPR partners better address the challenging ethical issues often inherent in this approach.
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                Journal
                rfa
                Research for All
                UCL Press (UK )
                2399-8121
                20 January 2022
                : 6
                : 1
                : e06101
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Associate Professor of Community and Civic Engagement, Research Innovation and Impact Services, Staffordshire University, UK
                [2 ]Research Impact Manager, Research Innovation and Impact Services, Staffordshire University, UK
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                https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7456-793X
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9700-9161
                Article
                10.14324/RFA.06.1.01
                6ce21327-f704-4d6e-a518-4dc7708224ef
                Copyright 2022, Nicola Gratton and Jackie Reynolds

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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                : 07 July 2020
                : 17 August 2021
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                Figures: 4, References: 18, Pages: 14
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                Assessment, Evaluation & Research methods,Education & Public policy,Educational research & Statistics
                culture,co-production,evaluation,arts,participation

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