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ArticleArts & health2012

Managing Evaluation: A Community Arts Organisation Perspective.

Peter Swan, Sarah Atkinson

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Article in Arts & health, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. 'The medical' and 'health' in a critical medical humanities.The Journal of medical humanities · 2015
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Peter SwanCentre for Medical Humanities and Department of Geography, Durham University.
Sarah AtkinsonCentre for Medical Humanities and Department of Geography, Durham University.

Funding

Wellcome Trust 086049
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundArts and health organisations must increasingly provide measurable evidence of impact to stakeholders, which can pose both logistical and ideological challenges. This paper examines the relationship between the ethos of an arts and health organisation with external demands for evaluation.

methodsResearch involved an ethnographic engagement where the first author worked closely with the organisation for a year. In addition to informal discussions, twenty semi-structured interviews were conducted with core staff and participants. Transcribed interviews were coded and emerging themes were identified.

resultsStaff considered evaluation to be necessary and useful, yet also to be time consuming and a potential threat to their ethos. Nevertheless, they were able to negotiate the terms of evaluation to enable them to meet their own needs as well as those of funders and other stakeholders.

conclusionsWhile not completely resisting outside demands for evaluation, the organisation was seen to intentionally rework demands for evidence into processes they felt they could work with, thus enabling their ethos to be maintained.

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arts and healthevaluationoutcomessocial enterprisethird sector

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PMID25429306
PMCPMC4241712

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