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Illuminate Oldham. Photo by Alan Hodgson

Research digest: Understanding Cultural Vitality

This research digest draws together research and practice on how to support the cultural vitality of places. Understanding place from the perspective of cultural vitality helps foreground the importance of connectivity across many aspects of community life.

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Six women stood together wearing colourful saris and holding parasols. They are each wearing a colourful, glowing wristband.
 
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Research Digest: Understanding Cultural Vitality

A group of people stood together on a grassy bank by a river in a town at dusk. One person is talking to the group. They are stood by an ancient wall.
 
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Research Digest: Environmental Heritage and Place

A group of children, smiling and laughing stand next to a person with long dark hair, wearing sunglasses singing into a microphone. They are outside, behind them is a green gazebo with a sign that reads DJ Booth
Mafwa Theatre. Family Flourish Day. Photo by Molly McGee
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Our essential reads: Evaluation Principles in practice

A photo of 'Hibiscus Rising', an outdoor sculpture made by Yinka Shonibare, photographed in front of redbrick buildings in Leeds city centre. The sculpture is tall and plant-like, with a selection of different colourful patterns in red, yellow, blue, purple and green.
Hibiscus Rising Statue – Leeds (Photo: West Yorkshire Combined Authority)
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Making evaluation count in cultural policy

The Olympic games rings hang from a window in front of a train platform at St Pancras station in London, in anticipation of the 2010 London Olympic Games.
 
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My essential reads: the economic impacts of major events

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Understanding the economic impact of UK Cities and Capitals of Culture

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