This day was an opportunity for LAINet members and museum staff to discuss and explore evaluation techniques and the quality standards set by the Arts…

Foresight’s ‘Mental capital and wellbeing’ project considered how to improve everyone’s mental capital and mental wellbeing through life. Evidence suggests that a small improvement in…

Inspiring Impact is a programme that aims to change the way the UK voluntary sector thinks about impact. Inspiring Impact aims to make high quality impact…

This publication reports the findings from a year-long action research project funded by Arts Council England and initiated by the Research Centre for Museums and…

Museums for Health and Wellbeing: A Preliminary Report from the National Alliance for Museums, Health and Wellbeing. This report describes the wealth of activity around…

Creative & Credible supports arts and health organisations and practitioners to: – engage with evaluation creatively – improve your practice – make well-informed spending decisions – strengthen…

This document from Public Health England provides effective ways to document and evaluate arts projects and programmes that seek to improve health and wellbeing. Arts…

Outline of the day Shining a spotlight on the distinctive opportunities and challenges of providing an excellent visitor experience in military museums, including welcoming visitors and…

This video diary was produced by the Mary Rose Trust as part of 2015 project funded by the South East Museum Development Programme with the…

A peer review is where one organisation looks at and comments on another similar organisation to give it ideas for improvement. Peer Reviewers usually come…

Outline of the day Discussing peer development ideas for the next six months An opportunity for each of the three peer development groups to meet,…

Workshop held at Milestones Museum, Basingstoke on 2 March 2015. Participants learned how to improve the way they do things through an interactive and entertaining…

Outline of the day Tackling shared audience data challenges Seminar held at National Motor Museum, Beaulieu on 8 July 2015. Participants learned from case studies…

Evaluation is a way to help you understand and show others whether your work has met or exceeded your expectations. Evaluation planning should be built…

Developed by Felicity Wolf and published by Arts Council England. Partnerships for learning aims to help everyone involved in arts education projects to understand evaluation…

The Association of Independent Museums (AIM) appointed DC Research in 2014 to research the expansion of the successful and much-used *AIM Economic Impact Toolkit into…

Useful blog post by Jessica Suess, Partnership Officer, Oxford University Museums, on the Oxford Aspite website, sharing their experience of starting from scratch with a…

This toolkit has been provided to assist people in conducting focus groups. It was developed for a particular research project at Rowan University in the…

Are you collecting personal data for marketing, research or fundraising purposes? The ICO website has loads of advice and resources to help you ensure that…

Loads of useful guidance and tools developed by the Audience Research Unit at the Australian Museum. Areas covered include: visitor behaviour, evaluation, research techniques, tips…

Loads of useful guidance and tools developed or collated by the South Western Federation of Museums and Art Galleries. SWFed resources on audience research, consultation…

A free visitor experience benchmarking service for AIM members to improve resilience. Provided by AIM in association with its survey partner BDRC Continental with funding…

Guide developed by Audiences London explaining how to commission effective marketing research. How to Effectively Commission Research

The Infographics Toolkit was produced as part of the Surrey, East & West Sussex Museum Development Programme's 'Re:Fresh Project' in Summer 2014 to help museums think…