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Participation
Taking Part 2018: Focus on Arts
Summary of Taking Part data for the engagement in the Arts during 2016/2017.
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Working practice
Sex and Power 2018
Updates previous editions of the Fawcett Society’s Sex and Power index.
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Working practice
Hiscox online art trade report 2018
The highs, lows, ins and outs of the online art market.
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Participation
Panic! Social class, taste and inequalities in the creative industries
Using ONS figures, demonstrates inequality in the Creative Industries workforce, which is shown to be lacking in diversity and social mobility.
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Cultural value
Bristol visual arts review
Commissioned by ACE following the June 2017 NPO round in which both Arnolfini and Situations were dropped from national portfolio funding.
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Cultural value
Museums Taskforce report and recommendations
Museums Association report focusing on funding, collections and the future relevance of the sector.
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Working practice
Documentation and the Information of Art
Theoretical paper arguing for documentary approaches to the study of art.
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Cultural value
Cultural Transformations: The Impacts of Hull City of Culture 2017
Preliminary evaluation by the University of Hull of the impacts of the 2017 UK City of Culture on Hull.
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Creative Industries
Culture is Digital: Executive summary
DCMS top level policy document to promote the “dual competitive advantages” of the UK’s strengths in creativity and technology.
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International contexts
Assessing the European Union’s contribution to the arts, museums and creative industries in England 2007-2016
Executive summary of the funding contribution of the EU to the UK arts, museums and creative industries from 2007- 2016, commissioned by Arts Council England.
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International contexts
Impact of Brexit on the Arts and Cultural sector
Comprehensive report covering six areas where Brexit is likely to impact on the arts and cultural sector.
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Working practice
Supporting the self-employed artist as citizen: looking up, looking down, looking around, looking forward…
Using learning from approaches taken in Australia and the USA, Susanne Burns offers a critique of the competitive UK subsidised arts system, identifying changes required for organisational and artist economic sustainability.
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Creative Industries
Creative Nation: How the creative industries are powering the UK’s nations and regions
Dense report focusing on the economic contribution and potential of the creative industries sector in the regions based on ONS and other statistical data.
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Cultural policy
Why Collect? A report on museum collecting today
Explores the historical context of public collecting and the dilemmas and challenges of developing museum collections within shrinking budgets and rising international art prices.
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Working practice
Who Makes? An Analysis of People Working in Craft Occupations
Crafts Council update on the 2012 demographic figures, with methodology that makes them compatible with DCMS standards and SOC codes.
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Participation
Equality, Diversity and the Creative Case: A data report 2016-2017
Report on diversity within Arts Council England NPOs and recipients of GFTA funding, using data gathered annually by ACE.
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Working practice
Making a shift report: Disabled people and the arts and cultural workforce in England: Understanding trends, barriers and opportunities.
ACE commissioned research report with the aim of improving ACE’s understanding of disabled people’s experience in the arts and cultural workforce; and identifying actions to reduce barriers.
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Working practice
Arts portfolio Wales Handbook: Visual or Applied Arts organisations
Details the performance indicators expected of visual and applied arts Portfolio organisations in Wales.
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Working practice
Supporting makers to export: survey findings
Crafts Council survey of makers’ export needs in view likely law changes following Brexit.
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Participation
Visual art and mental health
A systematic review of the subjective wellbeing outcomes of engaging with visual arts for adults (‘working-age’ 15-64 years) with diagnosed mental health conditions.
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Cultural value
Research case studies 2016-2017: European research partnership on cultural and creative spillovers
Report advocating for the implementation of specific methods of evaluating “the cultural spillover effect”, via the presentation of four international case studies.
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Regeneration
Ideas, People and Places: “Reflections on a journey of new beginnings.”
Reflections on ACW “Ideas: People: Places” programme which supports projects that “test new models of regeneration and collaboration through the arts”.
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International contexts
UK city of culture reflects the global identity of UK cities
Kathy McArdle, British Council Director of England and Cities, reflects on the international dimension of the UK City of Culture initiative.
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Working practice
The Freelands Artist Programme: How can we support emerging artists?
2016 Freelands Foundation commission of qualitative research exploring landscape of post-university support for emerging artists in the UK.
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Working practice
The 21st Century Curator: A report into the evolving role of the UK museum curator and their needs for the future
Research designed to offer an authoritative overview of the state of curatorship and foundation for planning future role support within UK the museum and gallery sector.
