Co-Production & Collaboration
INSIGHT Evaluation
The INSIGHT evaluation programme was first conceived in 2015. Designed and developed by a small team of volunteers, now known as Expert Citizens, with support from the VOICES project. We wanted to make sure that good practice is recognised, celebrated and shared. The Expert Citizens INSIGHT Standards are designed to do this. INSIGHT a project is uniquely led by people with lived experience of homelessness, mental ill-health, addiction, domestic abuse, poverty or histories of offending behaviour.
How Evaluation works
Our team of specially trained Expert Citizens evaluators will explore to what extent your service is meeting the INSIGHT Standards. We will use a range of methods including interviews and observations. We may ask your service to provide some information too, for example case studies, and a self-assessment. Information will be written into a report for your service and may include recommendations from our evaluators. Results will highlight good practice and help to reinforce this within systems and services, we will also suggest areas to explore for development and ways to celebrate and share your good practice. Your service will be provided with an official INSIGHT Standard logo for you to display, for example on a door or on a letterhead, to show that you have undergone the INSIGHT evaluation. It is anticipated that services will be visited regularly to ensure continued learning and development.
If you would like to enquire about an INSIGHT evaluation for your organization fill in an expression of interest form on our INSIGHT portal page and our evaluation team will contact you.
INSIGHT | Research
At Expert Citizens our research is Collaborative, asset focused and most importantly lived experience-led.
If you would like to get in touch with us to discuss project ideas or proposals email our research lead Sophia via: sophia.insight@expertcitizens.org.uk
Expert Citizens has worked with a range of partners including:
Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Staffordshire University, Keele University, University of Liverpool, Lancaster University, University of Sheffield, Newcastle University, Kings College London, St Mungos, Healthwatch, Power With