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AIR advisers on Cultural Leadership Programme

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AIR Advisory Group members David Cotterrell and Erika Tan are amongst twenty-one artists selected to participate in a new pilot cultural leadership programme.

Funded by the Cultural Leadership Programme, the Method leadership programme is an individually-tailored for professional artists and practitioners. Focusing its agenda on the development of independent leaders in the cultural and creative industries in the UK, it offers participants leadership learning in the context of their own place of work. The Cultural Leadership Programme (CLP) was set up to address a significant historical under-investment, when compared to other sectors, in the professional development of people operating in the creative and cultural sector. The work of the programme is diverse, exploring a wide variety of approaches to and understanding around what effective leadership means in a diverse and fast-changing set of contexts, and drawing upon relevant models, expertise and thinking. It proposes to define and determine new ways of supporting individual artists and practitioners who are seeking to develop their leadership skills and behaviour, exploring how artists might organise themselves to influence through their own practice, often beyond organisational settings. David Cotterrell is a London-based artist and professor at Sheffield Hallam University. An...

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