Research

Research Digest: Environmental Heritage and Place
This research digest draws together the current research on the relationship between cultural heritage, environments and place. The relationship between ...

To Leaf is to Learn - public art by Juanjo Novella and Simon Armitage (Photo by Mark Webster)
Research Digest: Culture and placemaking
What is the relationship between culture and placemaking? This digest brings together research that examines how and why arts and ...

Derby Festé 2023
Research Digest: Lifelong Cultural Engagement
How may the value and impact of engaging with culture evolve across someone's lifetime? Are our cultural tastes set in ...

Circle of Trout. Photo © Anthony Schrag
Research digest: The role of the artist in society
What do we know about the role of artists working in socially engaged ways, the value of this work, how ...

Vision paper: Culture, health and wellbeing
What do we know about the value and impact of culture in relation to health and wellbeing? Between October 2019 ...

Skippko Arts Team. Photo by Nicki Taylor
Research digest: Everyday creativity
This everyday creativity research digest summarises current evidence relating to the many and diverse creative and cultural activities that people ...

RSC DREAM, February 2021, photo Stuart Martin
Covid-19 and the global cultural and creative sector. Two years of constant learning – new foundations for a new world
This report is a follow up to Covid-19 and the global cultural and creative sector - what have we learned ...

Photo by Wesley Pribadi on Unsplash
Workforce: A slow recovery from Covid for performing arts
In this post Ben Walmsley and Tal Feder look at recent data from the Office for National Statistics Labour Force ...

Dance to Health, Norwich. Photo by Camilla Greenwell
Research digest: Older people’s physical health
In recent years, there has been growing interest in the role that culture can play in promoting physical health outcomes ...

Yorkshire Dance. Dance On. Photo by Sara Teresa
Research digest: Older people – culture, community, connection
In recent years there has been growing interest in the role that cultural participation can play in older people’s wellbeing ...