Feeling Safe: Young People Wellbeing and the Arts -
Oxfordshire CEP

Wellbeing-Focussed Evaluation / Creative Careers

Date

2021 - 2023

Organisation

Oxfordshire Cultural Education Partnership (CEP)

This 2 year wellbeing-focused project engaged 38 schools and 36 arts organisations/artists across Oxfordshire which included Museum of Oxford, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford Opera, Oxford Playhouse and The Story Museum.

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The project also aimed to educate young people on career routes within the creative industries and inspire them to pursue creative subject choices.

As project Evaluator my role was to:

- Design a methodology to measure the impact of engaging in cross-arts sessions on young participants’ wellbeing, including their resilience and confidence

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- Collect evaluation from teachers and artists who took part in order to gage how involvement impacted their networks, CPD, and confidence

- Advise on the best wellbeing scales to use

- Devise a means of collecting qualitative evaluation (this used The Storytelling Methodology and took inspiration from the Most Significant Change Methodology)

- Create a Theory of Change at the project start

- Produce an Evaluation Toolkit

- Deliver training to support session leaders to carry out their evaluation

- Produce a mid-way report for local authority funders

- Facilitate evaluation exercises for Young People at a Creative Careers Day and evaluate the success of the event and its impact on young people’s future subject choices/career interests

- Produce a Project Overview (top-line report)

- Produce a final report for the CEP

- Co-write the final project report for funders, Artswork

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I was also asked to deliver a training session for the project funders, Artswork, in which I shared my methodology with other CEPs across the UK. 

All materials below are bespoke designs I created using Canva.