Research & Evaluation

Drawing on its decade of experience in cross-sector work involving arts and culture, CCC conducts evaluations, surveys and research both on its own behalf and for other agencies. Please see below for a comprehensive list of our work and samples of reports from past commissions.

For more information on how CCC could work with your organisation, please contact info@creativecommunities.org.uk

Commissions over the years include:
2000 – 2003
Creative Community Building through Cross-Sector Collaboration: A European Mapping & Consultation Initiative

The Centre for Creative Communities, in partnership with the MELINA Project, Greece, was commissioned by the Ministry of Education in Greece to carry out this study of collaborative practices and policy among culture/arts, education, community development, youth, health and social services in 9 European Countries: Belgium, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom.

The study aimed to describe and analyse the complex picture emerging from the blending of traditional sectors, as reflected in the current shift towards policies that combine social and cultural objectives. These policies are often expressed as changes designed to ‘fight social exclusion’ by expanding ‘access’ to services and encouraging ‘participation’.

Terms of reference, findings and results of the Mapping project are published in full on this website (a full presentation of the mapping project can be found in the Mapping Room) A book (2004) based on the results is available for sale from our BOOKSHOP section.

2001 - 2002
Generalisation of Melina Project, Greece
At the invitation of the Melina Project, CCC organised a series of meetings with an international group of experts. The purpose was to analyse how the success of the 8 previous years of arts and schools projects in Greece could be scaled up to have an effect on local community development.

2000 – 2001
MIMESIS, Greece
Commissioned by the Melina Project, Greece and sponsored by the EU CONNECT fund, to evaluate a youth theatre and schools exchange project involving 4 European countries. Participants included children's theatres (Teatro dell Angolo, Turin, Italy and Le Grand Bleu, Lille, France), and schools (Richmond Park School, Glasgow, an establishment for children with severe physical and medical impairments; and a number of Greek primary schools).

1998 – 2000
Common Threads: Participation for a Better World
Research commissioned by the Consortium of Institutions for Research and Development in Education in Europe (CIDREE), the Scottish Arts Council and St Andrews College, which looked at the characteristics shared by selected projects in different European countries effectively combining arts, education and community development. For more information on the Common Threads programme please click here.

2001
Windows Sills, UK
Commissioned by Exeter College to evaluate one of their public art/ animation projects.

1999
Imagining a Perfect World, UK
An evaluation for the Kings Fund of a health and well–being project conducted by the inter-generational arts organisation, Magic Me, in the London boroughs of Hillingdon and Bromley.