News (Research & Evaluation)

Mike Richardson, Community Led Support Site lead and data specialist, writes about some of the thinking behind our new Valuing Community Led Support report.

Bringing people together around a campfire has been an age-old tradition for centuries. It’s a place to share stories with each other, discussing ‘hot’ topics, developing ‘simmering’ ideas and ‘sparking’ new ones.

Victoria Mason-Angelow from NDTi and Ikra and Ruth from Time to Talk Next Steps programme discuss how coproduction worked for them.

Talking to Siraaj and Jackie from Changing Our Lives about how their quality of life reviews contributed to the 200 Lives research project: Evaluating supported living and residential care for adults with learning disabilities

keeping communities connected and engaged in the Sport for Good initiative.

Collaborative, coproduced and community focussed research and evaluation. Concentrating on what works, for whom and in what circumstances.

Learning from the Rural Wisdom project - Highlights from 2 interviews with members of the project team from Outside the Box in Scotland, Volunteering Matters in in Wales and NDTi's evaluation team member Vicky.

Interview with members of Volunteering Matters working on the Rural Wisdom Project in Wales.

Interview with members of Outside the Box working on the Rural Wisdom Project in Scotland.

This Learning disability Week’s theme is creativity. We asked our new Evaluation Manager, Dr Karen McInnes, to talk about the value of play and playfulness and its role in communicating and learning creatively.