Selection & Assessment: Expert & Regional Panels On behalf of the Creative State North West PPP, an Expert Panel was established in 2012 to independently assess talent voucher awards and review applications to the creative directory. They were responsible for short listing industry beneficiaries for the award of Talent Vouchers against agreed selection criteria. Recommendations by the Panel for Talent Vouchers awards were then ratified by the Creative State North West Steering Group. The Expert Panel met to assess round 1 voucher applications on the 7th of September 2012 and at that time proposed the following changes for selection and assessment in round 2;
1. Establish a specialist Creative Peer Review panel with membership drawn from across participating regions to assess all applications for the creative directory
2. Establish 3 Regional Panels to review challenges locally and recommend a long list to the Expert Panel who would decide the final shortlist for the award of Talent Vouchers in round 2. Members of the Expert Panel were drawn from relevant agencies and organisations at local, regional, national and transnational level. The chairperson of each regional panel sat on the expert panel to provide a link back to each region and regional panel.
Table 2: Expert Panel
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Name
Position
Philip Flynn – Chair
CEO Digital Hub, Dublin
John Coll
Director of Community & Integrated Planning, Mayo County Council
Chris Gonley
CEO, Sligo Leader Partnership Company
Dr. Judy Scully
Ashton Business School, Ashton University, Birmingham
Dr. Pat Collins
Whitaker Centre, NUIG
Pearse Moore
Director The Nerve Centre Northern Ireland
David Smith
Cultural Enterprise Office Scotland
4CNW Business Innovation Programme
Evaluation Report