Round table ‘Gathering the evidence. Measuring and evaluating interventions with cultural heritage and reading for health and wellbeing’, 6 December 2016, PC Caritas (Melle)

1. Round Table Gathering the Evidence
Measuring en evaluating interventions with cultural heritage and reading
for health and wellbeing
6 December 2016 | Psychiatric Centre Caritas, Melle (Belgium)

2. Programme
10h-12h Presentations
• Bart De Nil & Ans Van de Cotte
• Sylvie Dhaene & Simon Bequoye
• Nuala Morse & Thomas Kador
12h Lunch
12h30 A thematic discussion
15h Wrap-up
Organizers

4. What is the context and are the
aims of this round table?
Bart De Nil (FARO) & Ans Van de Cotte (erfgoedcel Viersprong)

9. What we do we want to achieve…
• First introduction of the concept of evidence base underpinning
interventions with cultural heritage and reading for health and
wellbeing (gathering the evidence)  make minds ripe
• Initiate some initiatives in Flanders
(also with partners worldwide)
• A first step in the realisation of a
support network in Flanders
and a network with partners
worldwide

10. Why measuring the impact of
reading on health and wellbeing?
Sylvie Dhaene & Simon Bequoye | Iedereen Leest

11. Vision, knowledge and experience
about measuring and evaluation
(working evidence based)
Nuala Morse and Thomas Kador | University College London Public and Cultural
Engagement

12. Projects in the pipeline…
where we intent to evaluate the impact on health and wellbeing.

19. What do you think are the
obstacels for measuring and
evaluating?

21. Sustainable!?
• Problems
• impact on health requires a long-term commitment
• short running unconnected projects, “talking 2 years about one small project”
• trend hopping
• Solutions?
• mainstreaming – outreach on same level as collection management
• Memorandum of Understanding

22. Inside out
• Problems
• institutional view
• collections are central
• Solutions?
• needs and requirements communities and people central
• connect to your community
• assed based approach
• knowledge and expertise other than cultural heritage/reading (e.g. MHFA)
• tackling social exclusion within

23. Social proscription
Programs in stead of projects