image by Centre for Cultural Value
The Centre for Cultural Value is building a shared understanding of the differences that arts, culture, heritage and screen make to people’s lives and to society, including with its Research Digests, ‘based on a rapid assessment of published literature to present a ‘snapshot’’.
The Centre for Cultural Value writes:
… To achieve this, we are working in collaboration with partners across the UK to:
- make existing research more relevant and accessible so its insights can be understood and applied more widely;
- support the cultural sector and funders to be rigorous in their approaches to evaluation and foster a culture of reflection and learning;
- and foster an evidence-based approach to cultural policy development.
Our approach is primarily pragmatic: we want empirical research to drive decisions about cultural funding, policy, management, engagement and evaluation. Based at the University of Leeds, the Centre’s core partners are The Audience Agency, the University of Sheffield and Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. The Centre is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (part of UK Research and Innovation), Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Arts Council England.
About the Centre’s research digests
Our research digests are based on a rapid assessment of published literature to present a ‘snapshot’ of cultural value research across a number of core themes. These research reviews are shaped in consultation with practitioners, researchers and policymakers to make sure they are as useful and relevant as possible. We invite people to take part through surveys, interactive workshops and policy roundtables. This helps us develop research questions that we can find answers to in the literature. The reviews present an overview of key findings, what we know for certain, where there is emerging evidence and where further research is needed. We use the insight gained through the review process to draw conclusions about the current state of the evidence and what implications this has for the future.
Read more….
