Abstract
The Situated Evaluation Framework (SEF) reimagines evaluation as a collaborative, creative, and participatory practice grounded in dialogue, storytelling, lived experience, and collective meaning-making. Developed by and for student parterns, the framework explores how evaluation can move beyond extractive metrics to support reflection, community-building, shared learning, and transformative change within higher education.
Session and activities
This panel discussion explores the development and testing of the Situated Evaluation Framework (SEF), a participatory toolkit designed to support reflective and collaborative evaluation within student partnership programmes. Bringing together student partners and collaborators involved in the project, the conversation will reflect on the possibilities and challenges of creating evaluation practices grounded in storytelling, creativity, dialogue, and collective meaning-making.
The SEF was 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 institutional, educational, and social change within higher education.
Co-Design Team
This toolkit was collaboratively co-designed by members of two LCC Changemakers cohorts. We would like to acknowledge the contributions of:
Cohort 1 Design Team: Saranya Satheesh, Jiayi Wu
Cohort 2 Design Team: Chaitanya Tiwari, Fitri Arianti
Project Design Lead across two cohorts: Chiara Portinari
Project Supervisor: Kevin J Brazant
Additional contributions and feedback were provided by the wider LCC Changemakers community and supporters, including: Terry Finnigan, Adam Ramejkis, Roxanne Peters, Alejandra Nava, Anoushka Badola, Cassia Clarke, Farid Tan Bin Hasyim Tan, Hanna Cox, Hanjun Shi, Lucy Jessica Coney, Marryam Khan, Nieves Mingueza, Sara Keserović, and Slavi Kaloferov.
The Panel
The panel will discuss how arts-based and participatory methods — including Body Mapping, Participation Ladders, and Scenario Building — can support more inclusive, relational, and reflective approaches to evaluation in higher education. Panelists will also reflect on co-design, student voice, institutional dynamics, and what it means to approach evaluation as a process of collective learning and transformation rather than measurement alone.