Crescendo: Using a music education programme to improve social outcomes in disadvantaged communities

C Poland, L O'Hare, L O'Hara - Music and Social Inclusion, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter uses the Crescendo programme in West Belfast, Northern Ireland, to evidence
the potential of music education programmes for creating positive social impact in …

[PDF][PDF] Statistical analysis of educational outcomes among Big Noise Raploch participants

C Harkins - 2022 - makeabignoise.org.uk
Sistema Scotland is a charity “committed to improving lives and strengthening communities
through music and nurturing relationships” 1. Through its Big Noise programme, Sistema …

'Transforming lives through music'as a public health intervention: further reflections on our evaluation of Sistema Scotland

LM Garnham, C Harkins - Journal of Public Health, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We previously contributed a short discussion piece to this section, which described some of
the challenges inherent in evaluating the public health impacts of an arts-based social …

'It makes me feel happy and joyful': the evaluation of arts-based social interventions in public health

LM Garnham, A Campbell - Journal of Public Health, 2016 - academic.oup.com
One of the beauties of literature and the arts is their inherent illogicality. The act of
interpreting a poetic metaphor (or, better yet, creating that metaphor) requires the …