Research

NEW in 2012

Private Investment in Culture 2010/11

Less Public, More Private? Arts Funding in a Cold Climate

SUPPORTING CREATIVE INDUSTRIES TO ACCESS INTERNATIONAL MARKETS

This report is part of Culture Works Creative Industries Growth Programme delivered on behalf of Newcastle City Council Creative Cities Challenge. The report explores how civic leadership and support can help Creative Industries to grow through accessing international markets, taking as its geographic focus Creative Cities Challenge partner cities in the North Sea region.

CULTURAL EDUCATION IN ENGLAND

An independent review by Darren Henleyfor the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Education

CRAFT IN AN AGE OF CHANGE

2011

NATIONAL PLAN FOR MUSIC

RE-THINKING THE CREATIVE ECONOMY: the Tallin report

Low-carbon practices: a third sector research agenda

here

The Creative Cities Network (Canada)report,

"Making the Case for Culture, Arts for Positive Change in Communities" outlines how the arts can impact communities in meaningful ways and make a critical difference for citizens.

Building Capacity in Culture and Sport Organisations

here

Two excellent publications from mmm...

1)COLLABORATION STARTER PACK

'Six collaborative working pilots in Scotland and the North East of England were supported and financed by MMM during the period 2008-2010. We have produceda simple set of guidelines/tools to help arts and cultural organisations in the early stages of their collaboration' which you can access below:

Organisation structures for collaboration here
CQA's (competencies, qualities and attributes}for collaboration here
Disiciplined collaboration here
Collaboration values here

2)A sector-led ten year strategy to reconfigure business development support to the not for profit arts and cultural sector in the UK

Download here

2010

Creative Industries in Durham

MAKING ADAPTIVE RESILIENCE REAL

This report by Mark Robinson (Thinking Practice) aims to:
• explore the relevance of resilience thinking to the arts
• suggest a basic or simplified hypothetical version of an ‘arts ecology’
• identify characteristics of resilient arts organisations and sectors
• make recommendations for how Arts Council England and others could enhance resilience in the arts sector

A CULTURAL LEADERSHIP READER

MAPPING THE GAPS: research into third sector income generation support:pub. ACEVO 2010

THE PEOPLE THEME; A Mission Models Money project investigating the competencies, qualities and attributes which will enable creative practitioners and organisations to thrive in the challenging environment of the 21st Century

2009

SKILLS FOR FESTIVALS AND EVENTS IN THE NORTH EAST REGION

Commissioned by Northern Cultural Skills Partnership on behalf of ONE NE and carried out by David Taylor Partnerships Ltd in association with Gecko Ltd.

The report of this research was launched at Live Theatre on March 17th 2008. The research considers whether the regions workforce has the optimum skills to develop and grow a broad and sustainable festival and events portfolio. The report outlines the desk-based research, the findings from a telephone survey with 31 events and detailed case studies. It goes on to set out the conclusions and make recommendations.

There are three documents associated with this work:

• Executive Summary
• Full report
• Notes from workshop sessions held at the launch on March 17th

OVERVIEW OF CURRENT RESEARCH RELEVANT TO CULTURAL SECTOR SKILLS

Carried out in 2008 by NCSP on behalf of the Arts Council North East, this is an overview of regional and national research conducted over the last four years. Much of this is unpublished but still accessible by arrangement with the commissioning body.

NORTH EAST CULTURAL SECTOR SKILLS ACTION PLAN

During 2005 NCSP led a consortium comprising the regional bodies of the Arts Council, Museums Libraries and Archives, English Heritage and Culture North East to develop the first skills action plan for the sector in the region. A mapping exercise was conducted on behalf of the consortium by Bowman Solutions which produced labour market information. A second phase of
consultation was conducted involving over 100 employers and freelance workers and in May 06 a report was producedwhich remains the single overarching view of skills needs across the arts and heritage sectors.

FRAMEWORK FOR ENGAGEMENT WITH TRAINING

A report of findings from original research conducted by NCSP and published in 2003. This was the first synoptic review of the skills needs of the cultural sector in the region and remains a relevant introduction both to the issues that need to be addressed, and the context in which actions need to be located.

LINKS

THE IMPACT OF CULTURE ON CREATIVITY
This report published by the European Commission assesses the impact and value of culture-based creativity on the economy, recommending policy actions at state and EU levels to put Europe at the centre of innovation. A long, but good read

NEW DANCE CITY: an evaluation of a creative dance programme with pre-school children examining physical and mental well being outcomes here

NEW TO US HEALING THROUGH SONG: The power to heal us with a smile and a song’: Senior Well-being, Music-based
Participatory Arts and the Value of Qualitative Evidence
Elaine Lally University of Western Sydney here

NEW TO US ART AND WELL BEING: A guide to the connections between Community Cultural Development and
Health, Ecologically Sustainable Development, Public Housing and Place, Rural Revitalisation, Community Strengthening, Active Citizenship, Social Inclusion and Cultural Diversity. Pub. Australia Council for the Arts. here

NORTH EAST CREATIVE BLUEPRINT
CCSkills report published in June 09. Download here

CCSKILLS - Visit for stats and up-dates including a monthly e-bulletin. CCSkills is the sector skills council for advertising, design, crafts, cultural heritage, music and performing literary and visual arts

CREATIVE ECONOMY STRATEGY. Creative Britain - New Talents for the New Economy - is a DCMS strategy document outlining how Government will take action to support the creative industries. Visit
and use search for CREATIVE+ECONOMY+STRATEGY for policy futures

SUPPORTING EXCELLENCE IN THE ARTS McMasters review download here

ONE NORTH EAST COMMERCIAL/CREATIVE REPORT

This report was commissioned in 2007 by One North East and Culture North East as an independent assessment of the creative sector. It covers; sub sector trends, barriers to growth, added value and strategic account management. the report is available here

REGIONAL FESTIVALS AND EVENTS TOOLKIT

This toolkit is designed for people in the North East who currently organise festivals and events, or who are thinking of setting up new activity and aims to provide practical information and guidance.
The toolkit is available here

WORK PLACEMENT TOOLKIT (Launched 2008)

TOOLKIT was commissioned by ACE and developed by LCACE in collaboration with a research team of Professor Mustafa Ozbilgin (University of East Anglia) and Dr Ahu Tatli (Queen Mary, UoL) in consultation with the arts and cultural sector and with the Higher Education sector.
It has been developed to provide a much needed source of guidance and
support for:

Arts and cultural sector organisations who host or wish to host work placements to students in higher education

Universities who endorse work placements as part of formal and informal learning processes

Students who wish or are required to undertake work placements in arts or cultural sector organisations as part of their university course.

Download the reports here

NORTH EAST HIGHER SKILLS NETWORK; SUMMARY OF HIGHER EDUCATION AT WORK

A summary of the DIUS report (published April 08) including proposals for HE collaboration with employers. The consultation period ends on July 7th download here

MEETING THE CHALLENGE (2008)

This is the report of the Cultural leadership Programme. It looks at the learning from the first two years of the CLP and indicates future priorities. download here

HERITAGE CRAFT SKILLS

Two reports by the National Heritage Training Group (NHTG) launched on Tuesday 29 April 2008 at The Prince of Wales’s Foundation for the Built Environment, highlight serious skills and knowledge gaps affecting specialist workers in England and building professionals working across the UK built heritage sector. For more information download here

CREATIVE OPPORTUNITIES. A NESTA commissioned report that examines the role that the creative industries, one of the fastest growing sectors of the UK economy, can play in work-related learning. for the report

CREATIVE INDUSTRIES : The Technology Strategy Board preliminary views on challenges facing the sector and the ways in which technology can be exploited to overcome them. You can contribute to the debate by emailing creativeindustries@tsb.gov.uk and you can downloadthe doc here

CULTURAL HERITAGE BLUEPRINT: a workforce development plan for cultural heritage in the UK. December 08. Download here