Situated Evaluation Framework

Designed to foster continuous learning, dialogue, and improvement while recognising, articulating, and supporting the impact of student partners’ work.

For Student Partner Programmes

The Situated Evaluation Framework (SEF) provides a participatory framework for student partners and their supervisors to support meaningful and reflective evaluation of their initiatives, intended to be used flexibly and collaboratively.

Developed through the LCC Changemakers programme, a student-partnership initiative at London College of Communication that supports collaborative work between students and staff to explore and support institutional, educational, and social change within higher education.

Co-developed over the course of two Changemakers cohort Led by Chiara Portinari, the team includes Saranya Satheesh, Jiayi Wu, Chaitanya Tiwari, Fitri Arianti and supervised by Kevin J Brazant.

Student Partner Journey

Evaluation Touch point

A diagram titled "Student Partner Journey." A horizontal dashed line runs from left to right, labelled "Programme Start" on the left and "Programme End" on the right. Three points along the line are labelled "Onboarding," "Midway Check-in," and "Debrief." At each of these three points, two orange semicircles appear: one above the line, representing in-person activities, and one below the line, representing one-to-one sessions with a supervisor. A legend in the top right identifies the orange semicircles as "Evaluation Touch point." Row labels on the left read "In-person Activities" for the upper semicircles and "1 to 1 with supervisor" for the lower ones.

Traditional Evaluation Methods

Student partners are only contacted towards the end of the programme for evaluation and are assumed to remember their entire journey.

Traditional Evaluation Methods

The Evaluation is designed from an external point of view, only extracting information and privileging written response.

Situated Evaluation Framework

SEF works with student partners to surface lived experiences and speculate future at different touch points of their journey.

Situated Evaluation Framework

Knowledge is situated, understood from inside out, embracing diverse forms of creative expression with in-person activities and 1-to-1 sessions with the supervisor.

Explore the SEF Framework and Toolkit.

SEF Framework

SEF Toolkit

Evaluation Report

Future Development

Using creativity to drive equity, inclusion and social justice

Based at:
London College of Communication, University of the Arts London (UAL).

Enquiries/ contact: LCCStudentChangemakers@arts.ac.uk

Changemakers Lead: Kevin J Brazant, SFHEA
Website design, setup and core page content by Slavi Kaloferov, FHEA.
Illustrations by Tenley Tomlinson.
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