The Inspiring Futures project is the research component of the National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance’s Inspiring Futures programme – an ambitious array of work, bringing together leading arts in criminal justice organisations to provide a ground-breaking artistic programme in prisons and the community. Funded by the ESRC, the research is independent but embedded within the Inspiring Futures programme. It aims to establish a new cross-disciplinary theory of arts impact in the criminal justice sector. It will also develop a comprehensive and theoretically-informed evaluation framework to measure the many different ways in which the arts within criminal justice provision can impact individuals, communities, and society.
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Read our Research Outline
Find out about our methods
Discover the Inspiring Futures app
Meet our Project Partners
Inspiring Futures Research Report
- Click here for a short film on the research findings
- Click here for more about the aims of the research and the making of the film
