In recent years there’s been in increased interest in the role arts and culture can play in the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people. Our latest research digest considers the evidence of positive impacts and identifies whether there any gaps in the current research?
As audience concern about increasing Covid cases grows, what does this mean for the festive season? Despite an uptick in people’s general wellbeing and life satisfaction, latest findings show a growing concern amongst audiences about falling ill, and an expectation of further lockdowns, resulting in high numbers of people either not comfortable or not interested … Read more
This report by Anthony Sargent offers a truly global overview of research into the impacts and responses to the Covid-19 crisis.
In this practical how to guide Dr Robyn Dowlen explains how to search for research that is relevant to your evaluation project, and where to look.
Find out how to create effective infographics to summarise your research or evaluation project, in this how-to guide from Nifty Fox.
How are different types of audiences responding to the new ways of engaging with culture that have emerged over the last 18 months? And what does the future of digital or ‘hybrid’ engagement look like? As the sector begins to cautiously reopen, questions remain around audience appetite for continued digital engagement, as well as how … Read more
In this article we examine how values-led partnerships between local government and the cultural sector in Greater Manchester have allowed for a place-based response to the impacts of the pandemic, and what this means for the ‘levelling up’ agenda.
Using hashtags #CultureInQuarantine and #MuseumAtHome, this article explores how cultural organisations and audiences, freshly locked down at home in early 2020, were finding new ways to engage and interact with each other.
Effaith COVID-19 ar weithlu sector sgrin Cymru: gweithwyr llawrydd Yn yr erthygl hon, rydym yn archwilio’r ffyrdd gwahanol y mae gweithwyr llawrydd y sector sgrin yng Nghymru wedi cael eu heffeithio gan y pandemig, a’u pryderon am y dyfodol. In this article we examine the different ways in which screen sector freelancers based in Wales … Read more
What is the impact on the nation’s wellbeing, and when will audiences be returning? Despite the vaccine rollout, there remains a hesitancy to return amongst audiences, with a continuing sense of risk to health and only slow rises in cultural engagement. In first findings from the third wave of the Cultural Participation Monitor, The Audience … Read more
