Our evaluation service

Willis Newson offers a specialist arts and health evaluation service, further strengthening our commitment to the use of an evidence-based approach to our work.

This new service ensures that arts and health projects benefit from the growing wealth of research available, and in their turn will contribute to the future knowledge base. We are also seeking to develop associated training packages. This has been made possible by the creation of a two-year Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with the University of the West of England (UWE).

UWE is a leading academic centre for the development of arts and health research and evaluation. A research programme, led by Norma Daykin, Professor of Arts in Health in the School of Health and Social Care, encompasses work across a wide range of art forms and in a variety of settings, including hospitals, primary care, prisons and other communities.