LLRC November Event Recording: Evaluating Creative Writing’s Impact On Wellbeing

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Evaluating Creative Writing’s Impact On Wellbeing

Presenter: Dominique De-Light

Saturday 2nd November, 10:00am-11:15am (BST).

How can we evaluate the impact of creative writing? Dominique will share her PhD research – evaluating community creative writing groups’ impact on wellbeing – and outline the wide variety of evaluation/research methods she is using. The workshop includes: an opportunity to practice creative writing as a research method, discussion, and Q&A. Of interest to anyone running creative writing groups, researchers, and those who have to produce funders’ evaluation reports. All are welcome.

About the Presenter

Dominique De-Light is an author, PhD researcher, arts and health consultant and creativity and wellbeing coach. Co-founder of Creative Future, an arts charity supporting underrepresented artists and writers, she established the Creative Future Writers’ Awards. She has over twenty years’ experience of working creatively with people with complex needs. Along with training arts and health professionals, coaching creatives to CEOs, she is a recipient of Anglia Ruskin University’s VC’s PhD Scholarship, studying the therapeutic impact of community creative writing programmes, with a focus on underrepresented groups and effective evaluation for writing for wellbeing programmes. She gained her MA in Creative Writing from UEA, has previously been a professional mentor for LAPIDUS, and has articles published in Writing Works, 2006 , and Writing Routes, 2011, both edited by Gillie Bolton, Victoria Field and Kate Thompson. She is the facilitator for the Brighton and Hove Arts and Health Network and is an Associate member of the Centre for Arts and Wellbeing, University of Brighton and the Cambridge Writing Centre. For further information see: www.wellbalancedcoaching.co.uk

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About the Lapidus Living Research Community

The Lapidus Living Research Community (LLRC) meets on the first Saturday of every month via Zoom to discuss all things research, with a focus on qualitative arts-based research practices, theory and methods.

All Lapidus members are welcome, regardless of research experience.

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