Round Table Gathering the EvidenceMeasuring en evaluating interventions with cultural heritage and reading

for health and wellbeing

6 December 2016 | Psychiatric Centre Caritas, Melle (Belgium)

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

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

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 asupport network in Flandersand a network with partnersworldwide

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

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

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

What do you think are theobstacels for measuring andevaluating?

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

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

Social proscription

Programs in stead of projects