Features and Publications
“Thank you so much for the ‘Young People’s Wellbeing’ report.
What a brilliant read!
I‘ll do my best to get it read by as many people as possible and I’m sure we can begin to make a difference.”
SENsory Atelier for SEND Young People
Attenborough Arts Centre’s SENsory Atelier programme has developed an innovative model for SEND education by putting arts, creativity and culture at its heart.
As the programme’s evaluation consultant, we devised the ‘Group Observation framework’ to enable observers to capture qualitative data about a small group of participants, and to score their engagements against a set of indicators from one of five outcome areas.
Download the framework here.
Creativity, Learning and Wellbeing in Schools
Authored for East Young People’s Creative Agency TMC, this report evidences the essential role of wellbeing in learning, and the valuable role that creativity can play in that.
Designed for school leaders and educators, it makes neuroscience accessible, explaining how to cultivate healthy brains which are learning-ready, resilient and able to recover from the impacts of adversity and stress. Download the full report here.
Arts Backpack, Action for Children's Arts
Action for Children’s Arts, ‘the national voice of children’s arts’ launched ‘Arts Backpack UK’ in 2018.
Evaluated by Well Within Reach, the Leicester pilot ran in partnership with Attenborough Arts Centre
from 2022-23. Read the full report here.
BBC on The Teenage Brain
In collaboration with the BBC, this web article was created to help both parents and adolescents themselves to understand the changes that take place in the teenage brain.
It explains some of the associated challenges such as sleep, decision making and forward planning, and exactly why teenagers are likely to be much more emotionally charged than adults or younger children.
Click here to read the full article.
Sound of the Next Generation
Produced by research body Ipsos and Youth Music, Sound of the Next Generation offers ground-breaking insights into the diverse ways young people engage with and value music and music-making, and the positive and meaningful impact music has for them.
Having evaluated a number of national Youth Music funded initiatives, we were asked to contribute to this research report. Read it here.
In an Octupus's Garden
This report is the culmination of an 18 month partnership with Wishing Well, which brings live musical interactions to bedsides at Brighton’s Royal Alexandra Children’s Critical Care wards.
The nature of the practice; particularly work with babies and children with complex needs, serious injury and trauma; means that it is incredibly difficult to reliably observe and record the ‘evidence’.
We helped to decode the profound but usually invisible impacts of the programme. Download the report here
“Thank you for an excellent piece of work. It has had me gripped all day!
I have massive concerns about how our young people are going to be disadvantaged socially, mentally and, according to this paper, academically as well. Your report explains it all so well , and is going to be so useful to so many.”