Annabel Jackson is Director of Annabel Jackson Associates Ltd, an evaluation consultancy specializing in the arts established in 1989. She also acts as a facilitator and mentor to arts organizations. She has carried out more than 300 assignments which include conceptualizing outcomes, developing evaluation systems, auditing existing systems, training staff in evaluation, carrying out one-off evaluations and evaluating evaluations produced by other organizations. She has worked across all art forms and all scales of work, for example evaluating the Arts Council England’s visual arts strategy, developing a national toolkit to evaluate art in the public and digital realms, evaluating artist professional development programs, writing a toolkit for orchestras to evaluate their educational and community programs, evaluating a Dance Festival with 1.2 million participants, evaluating the public value of a music college, developing a methodology to evaluate the social impact of exhibitions for the Victoria and Albert museum, and evaluating a large number of stabilization programs in the UK and USA. She has also developed the first theory of the social impact of the arts, which shows how specific features of the arts meet people’s basic psychological needs. Outside the arts Ms. Jackson has streams of work in evaluating advocacy, organizational development, regeneration and international aid. She has three degrees, the last an MBA from Imperial College London, where she taught performance measurement.
