{"id":1314,"date":"2022-08-07T14:23:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T13:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2024-06-18T14:52:30","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T13:52:30","slug":"arts-in-prison-exploring-working-together-with-public-contributors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health\/arts-in-prison-exploring-working-together-with-public-contributors\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Arts in Prison&#8217; \u2013\u00a0Exploring working together with public contributors\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u2018Arts in Prison\u2019 is an exploratory PPI project aiming to give a&nbsp;voice to those who participate in art-based programmes within prison settings. Co-production is an approach in which researchers, practitioners, and the public (in this case prisoners) work together, sharing power and responsibility from the start to the end of the project. Co-producing an art programme evaluation tool with those who represent the end-users of such a programme to be embedded, maximising its relevance and success. More specifically, this evaluation tool will provide greater insight into what the prisoners who attend these programmes are expecting to gain, why they continue to engage with the programme, and areas that they would like to see changed or aspects they would like added.\u202f&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project received internal funding through the university\u2019s Participatory Research Challenge. Foreign national prisoners from HMP Maidstone participated in a series of four workshops to create and develop a co-collaborated evaluation tool of prison arts. All workshops facilitated communication, self-expression, and sharing whilst centring the workshops around various creative techniques such as brainstorming, collective drawing, and collage making. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were a lot of similar narratives occurring&nbsp;amongst the prisoners about the importance of the art programme&nbsp;and its effect on&nbsp;the participants&#8217; mental health as well as wellbeing. Many prisoners used the art programme as an escapism&nbsp;or saw participation in art activities as a way of making time pass quicker.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through working co-collaboratively with the prisoners, seven areas were identified that the evaluation tool should aim to explore: artistic&nbsp;skills&nbsp;development, mental health (specifically depression and anxiety), trust, motivation, burden, self-confidence\/self-esteem, and happiness\/fulfilment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prisoners were keen that the evaluation collection\u00a0not only included numbers to be\u00a0analysed into figures\u00a0but also\u00a0collect the views\u00a0and feelings of many of the above-mentioned areas.\u00a0Therefore,\u00a0the evaluation should be\u00a0conducted as a mixed methods study using both validated\u00a0questionnaires\u00a0and open-ended\u00a0questions\u00a0to further enhance\u00a0or verify the qualitative and\u00a0quantitative\u00a0responses.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final artworks are presented below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"297\" height=\"396\" src=\"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2022\/11\/Picture1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2022\/11\/Picture1.jpg 297w, https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2022\/11\/Picture1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"291\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2022\/11\/MicrosoftTeams-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2022\/11\/MicrosoftTeams-image.jpg 291w, https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2022\/11\/MicrosoftTeams-image-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"294\" height=\"393\" src=\"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2022\/11\/MicrosoftTeams-image-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2022\/11\/MicrosoftTeams-image-1.jpg 294w, https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2022\/11\/MicrosoftTeams-image-1-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Arts in Prison\u2019 is an exploratory PPI project aiming to give a&nbsp;voice to those who participate in art-based programmes within prison settings. 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