S2 Ep 2: Who holds the power?

S3 Ep 3: Rigour

Hosted by Chuck Blue Lowry, this episode of Reflecting Value: Evaluation Principles in Practice explores rigour.

Keeping our evaluations rigorous is crucial if we want our findings to be accurate, giving us the best chance of learning from our activity and making meaningful changes to it.

But how do we make our evaluation rigorous? How do we identify the appropriate methods for our work, and apply them properly? How do we balance pure numbers with the human stories that come out of evaluation?

Join us as we ask our guests about identifying methods, sticking to the evidence and balancing analysis with description. We'll wade into the age old debate - "quantitative or qualitative data?" - and discuss how the two can be properly combined into a mixed methods approach.

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S3 Ep 2: Proportionality

Hosted by Chuck Blue Lowry, this episode of Reflecting Value: Evaluation Principles in Practice explores proportionality.

Proportionality involves doing less - and doing it better. It involves editing yourself down and knowing what you need out of an evaluation, and what you don’t. And it also involves being selective and saying no when you might not be best placed to do an evaluation.

In this episode, we also find out that proportionality is really hard to implement. To be proportionate, we have to think about our own role in an evaluation - whether we are a cultural manager, practitioner, evaluator or funder.

Join us as we talk about overkill, adapting methods in face of changing circumstances and regenerative practice.

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S3 Ep 1: Empathy

Hosted by Stephen Welsh, this episode of Reflecting Value: Evaluation Principles in Practice explores the role of empathy in evaluation.

One of the 'people-centred' Evaluation Principles, empathy can be elusive. It can be hard to talk about it practically. But if we want to make evaluation count, we have to make it count for everyone.

What steps can we take to be more understanding evaluators? How can we create a safe evaluation environment - one that can bring in missing voices with unique opinions? And how can we overcome our own expectations of an evaluation so that it really gives back to our audiences and participants?

Join us as we discuss listening, failure and 'hanging out' - and what they all have to do with empathy in evaluation.

This episode features conversations with Alex de Little (http://www.alexdelittle.com/), Morvern Cunningham (https://twitter.com/morvc) and Rising Arts Agency (https://rising.org.uk/).

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Coming soon: Season three of Reflecting Value

It's been two years since the Centre for Cultural Value launched the co-created Evaluation Principles – responding to industry-wide demand for support with evaluation in the cultural sector. So we wanted to check in.

The third season of the Centre for Cultural Value's podcast, Reflecting Value: Evaluation Principles in Practice, features three new episodes exploring the ways cultural sector professionals have applied the Evaluation Principles.

Hosted by Stephen Welsh and Chuck Blue Lowry, we'll be discussing how the Principles can be used across the cultural sector in practical and beneficial ways. 

We'll also talk to our guests about the challenges of evaluation - and the ways the Principles can provide a practical lens for learning and implementing change.

Join us for season three of Reflecting Value, releasing weekly in July 2023.

To find out more about Reflecting Value: Evaluation Principles in Practice, visit: https://www.culturalvalue.org.uk/reflecting-value/

Edited in house by Robin Smith

S2: Ep 5 Physically distanced, socially connected

Created in partnership with National Theatre of Scotland

This episode is hosted by Lewis Hetherington of National Theatre of Scotland who brings together six people who have been participants in creative work during the pandemic. The group explores their experiences of taking part in creative activity during the pandemic, and the positive impacts it had on them while in lockdown.

Guests

• Lewis Hetherington (National Theatre of Scotland) – host
• Stewart Gow and Carrie Bates – Coming Back Out Ball
• Charlotte Armitage and Kenneth Murray – Holding, Holding On
• Jaqui Smyth and Peter Sproul – Non Optimum

With thanks to National Theatre of Scotland partners:

Coming Back Out Ball A National Theatre of Scotland and All The Queens Men co-production, in partnership with Eden Court and Luminate in association with Glasgow City Council. 

Holding/ Holding On Presented by National Theatre of Scotland as part of Care in Contemporary Scotland – A Creative Enquiry, written by Nicola McCartney 

Non Optimum: When It’s Safe To Do So Presented by National Theatre of Scotland as part of Care in Contemporary Scotland – A Creative Enquiry, created by Lucy Gaizely/21Common 

We would love to hear what you thought about the episode – please share your thoughts on Twitter using #ReflectingValue

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