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Working practice
Structurally F–cked
An inquiry into artists’ pay and conditions in the public sector in response to the Artist Leaks data.
Creative Industries - a-n The Artists Information Company
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Creative Industries
Creativity and the future of skills
Analyses 35 million job adverts between 2013-17 for use and meaning of the word ‘creativity’.
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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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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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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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Creative Industries
Global Talent Report: Why the UK’s world-leading creative industries need international workers and how to attract them
Campaigning document by the Creative Industries Federation advocating for continued free movement of EU nationals post-Brexit, and reform of the visa system for non-EU nationals.
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Creative Industries
Space to play: Making art and technology collaborations work
Report detailing the journey and learning between the RSC and intel collaborating to bring a digitally enhanced production of The Tempest to the stage.
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Creative Industries
Independent Review of the Creative Industries
Written by ex-Chair of ACE Peter Bazalgette for the DCMS, with the intention that it becomes part of the Government’s Industrial Strategy.
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Creative Industries
A Blueprint for growth: Creative Industries Federation response to the government’s consultation: ‘Building our Industrial Strategy’
This Federation ‘blueprint’ presents policy recommendations and practical ideas for creating economic growth across the whole country.
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Cultural value
DCMS sectors economic estimates
Provides estimate of the contribution of DCMS sectors to the UK economy.
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Creative Industries
Creative industries: focus on employment
DCMS official statistics providing economic estimates to measure employment in the Creative Industries and Creative Economy in the UK up to 2015.
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Working practice
The qualifications blueprint: a qualifications strategy for the creative and cultural industries
investigation into qualifications which support the creative and cultural industries, and recommendations for future development.
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Participation
Taking part focus on: artforms – statistical release
Looks at adult engagement with the arts through attendance at and participation in arts events.
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Creative Industries
UK contemporary gallery report 2015 – 2016: opportunities and challenges in a rapidly changing market place
Researched by Creative United in partnership with ArtTactic, investigates the characteristics and dynamics of the contemporary art market in the UK.
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Creative Industries
The art of living dangerously
Provocation urging all those working with arts and culture to rethink their contribution to a vision of sustainable development that benefits the whole of society.
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Working practice
Pensions for artists
Survey results.
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Cultural value
A guide to research into fees and payments to artists
Susan Jones introduces a collation of key documents and evidence that informed a-n’s publication of fees and payments guidance and good practice documents in 2003-04. The report aims to widen understanding of the history of, and prior good practice thinking around, payment to artists.
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Creative Industries
Pathways to Design: young people’s entry to the design sector
Examines design industry’s perceptions of young people, their suitability for work and the neccessary skills and abilities needed to thrive within the sector.
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Creative Industries
Classifying and measuring the Creative Industries
Paper formally acknowledging the flaws in the original DCMS SIC (classification codes) and proposing improvements.
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Creative Industries
Latest economic values for the creative industries
Presents brief explanations of different economic data cited for the creative industries.
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Working practice
Artists’ work in 2011
Part of an annual series of papers analysing data about artists’ employment opportunities, patterns and incomes. Narrative compares between years and tracks changes from previous years.
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Creative Industries
Craft in an age of change
Mapping and impact study of the contemporary craft sector commissioned by the Crafts Council.
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Creative Industries
Creative industries council skillset skills group
Recommendations presented to Creative Industries Council to instigate industry led proposals for addressing skills issues to boost the growth and competitiveness of the Creative Industries.
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Cultural value
Supporting growth in the arts economy
Report illustrating synergies between the arts and the creative economy and discussing suggestions for ACE’s strategic approach.
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Creative Industries
Ladders for development: Impact of Arts Council England funding cuts on practice-led organisations
Case study paper discussing the likely impact on the visual arts of Arts Council England’s decisions to remove funding from fifteen visual arts organisations unsuccessful in their NPO application.
