Evaluation 2010
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Reflections of an audience
On 30th June 2010, we screened the Sci:dentity film at Central School of Speech & Drama (University of London). There was a Q&A afterwards. See below for a transcript of the evening, if you are interested in people's responses to the film, and some of the questions that they had for the panel. The panel included Catherine McNamara and Finn Greig.
http://www.scidentity.com/Scidentity Film Q&A transcript 300610.doc
Evaluation reports 2006
The evaluation reports for the 2006 project look at evidencing impacts on participants, facilitators and audience members as well as evaluating learning outcomes which included artistic skills, creative ideas as well as scientific and medical understandings of the sexed and gendered body.
For a copy of the evaluation reports click below:
The Sci:dentity Project Evaluation Report Phase 1 and 2
The Sci:dentity Project Evaluation Report Phase 3 and 4
The Sci:dentity Project Executive Summary
2006 Evaluation Phases One & Two (the planning and the arts workshops)
In the workshops with young trans people, it was noted that knowledge around transsexualism and scientific understandings of sex and gender were in-depth and intelligent, evoking the notion of the "young researcher". The dialogue between "experts" in the field and the life experiences and self-understandings of the trans youth themselves was rich and lucid. This engagement critiqued the authority of the "expert" and marked out limited empirical research and knowledge in relation to sexed identities, endocrinology, brain-sex theories etc. from within the expert fields and beyond.
2006 Evaluation Phases Three & Four (outreach workshops and reflection)
The general reflections by the project team throughout these phases were that engaging in discussion with non-trans young people in schools and youth group settings offered a more limited set of understandings and questions around sex and gender. This became an area for development as we took the core concepts of the Sci:dentity project forward. Most young people do not know trans people exist, or only see images of transsexual people in television documentaries. Reflections on their own sexed and gendered identities were, on the whole also relatively limited. We feel it is important to further understandings around sex and gender, both in terms of medical knowledges and wider social frameworks within schools.