Recent summer intern Katie Warrior shares advice for anyone embarking on an internship and reflects on what she has learned from the various creative projects she has been involved in whilst working at the Centre for Cultural Value.

Following on from our ground-breaking research into the impact of Covid-19 on the UK’s creative and cultural sectors, we are now pleased to publish a new report detailing 12 evidence-led recommendations for policymakers.

We are pleased to share news of new appointments to our Advisory group and the Centre's core team, including Adah Parris as Advisory group Chair.

As part of our collaboration with LEEDS 2023 and The Audience Agency we’ll be hosting a fully-funded PhD starting in September 2022.

Read about the ten projects and academics who are developing projects for our Collaborate fund for research collaborations.

New research reveals profound impact of Covid-19 on cultural sector workforce, audiences and organisations

We are excited to announce that we are working with LEEDS 2023 as their research partner in collaboration with The Audience Agency.

Manchester-based artist Fraz Ireland discusses the inspiration and process behind their 'interactive soundscape', an artwork commissioned as part of our Covid-19 research conference.

We are now accepting Expressions of Interest from academic researchers for our Collaborate fund. Find out more about how to apply and the projects you could be partnering with.

Young practitioner and Mental Health The Arts founder Angela Awuah responds to our latest research digest on young people and mental health.

In this article for Arts Professional, Dr Robyn Dowlen considers whether more support and training is needed for cultural practitioners working in complex spaces.

Ben Walmsley, Centre Director, reflects on the perspectives and conversations shared at our Covid-19: Changing Culture conference

Makala Cheung reflects on who gets to decide what kinds of art and culture are valued, and on other themes emerging from our Covid Culture conference.

Trevor MacFarlane reflects on findings from our Covid research project and on what may lie ahead for this year's panto season 

We'll soon be inviting academic researchers to apply for the Collaborate fund. Join us on 9 December to find out more.

Call for podcast episode partner - we want to co-create an episode of the podcast which is centred on the ways in which people have engaged with creativity and culture during the pandemic. Deadline 30 November.

Join us at our online conference to share and discuss insights from our major research programme examining the impacts of Covid-19.

Watch a recording of one of our Collaborate briefing events, where Liz Harrop and Lisa Baxter introduce the fund and talk through the application process. Expressions of interest from the cultural sector are now open.

To mark the launch of our co-created Evaluation principles, Ben Walmsley, Anne Torregiani and Oliver Mantell share the essence of the principles and explain why co-creation was central to their development.

To coincide with the launch of our co-created evaluation principles, Holly Donagh from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation shares a funder's perspective on what more can be done to support evaluation in the cultural sector.

Dr Beatriz Garcia sets the launch of our co-created evaluation principles in a global context and explains the value for the cultural sector.

We asked you for your thoughts about evaluation for our latest short film. From frustrations and challenges to opportunities, hear what people from across the sector had to say.

An opportunity to join our Collaborate fund assessment panel, helping to develop new research-based partnerships between higher education and the cultural sector.

This summer we welcome two student interns - Natasha Fyffe and Jessica Olliver - to come and work with us in paid placements organised by the University of Leeds. Find out how they got on and what they learnt from their time at the Centre.

Call for artists - we are looking for a creative practitioner to create a participative, reflective, imaginative mode of engagement at our online conference in November.

We are looking for a freelance Editor and a freelance Marketing and Communications specialist to work on our Covid-19 research project.

Would you like to help us to develop and implement our activities, and inform thinking and practice in the sector? We're seeking two new members to join the Centre’s Advisory group.

We're excited to have launched Collaborate, a new fund to support research partnerships between the cultural sector and academic researchers. Information about how to apply and what's involved is now available.

Ben Walmsley and Liz Harrop write about the opportunities our Collaborate fund offers for the cultural sector and academics.

Do you have a creative project produced during lockdown that you want to share? A moment of cultural engagement that means a lot to you? Did you take part in a creative activity in your community that you want to shine a light on?

In our Collaborate fund pilot, Manchester Camerata is working in partnership with a senior lecturer at the Royal Northern College of Music to explore how audiences respond to live and recorded music.

We're looking for Bradford-based creative practitioners to take part in a number of paid opportunities to help us tell the story of the city and the value of its cultural activities.

Can you help us tell the story of your individual or community experiences of engaging with creative and cultural activities during the pandemic? 

We know it's tough, but we need to talk about the E-word. The Centre for Cultural Value is launching a set of cultural evaluation principles in October and we need your help for a film we're making.

What goes into making a podcast? Our podcast host Dr Robyn Dowlen shares the essential ingredients that went into the development of Reflecting Value and provides tips for organisations that are planning their own.

Are you a recent creative arts graduate? Do you want to be part of a national research project exploring the impacts of Covid-19 on the cultural industries across the UK?

In an article we wrote in February, we focused on how the pandemic was seemingly creating a leaner and damaged but more collaborative cultural sector. Now we’re nearly two thirds of the way through our project and while these findings certainly still hold, they have been nuanced as the research has progressed.

Latest evidence shows that people are reluctant to return to live arts and cultural activities following the Covid-19 pandemic.

In this blog, Liz Chege and Julia Negus share their first-hand perspectives on how they and their organisations responded to the Covid-19 crisis.

As Covid-19 has pushed culture online, Danielle Child, Karen Gray, Harry Weeks and John Wright examine how arts and cultural organisations have attempted to make the digital more social.

In their joint blog, lecturers Simon Burrow and Dr Helen Pusey discuss our latest research digest and the value of arts-based approaches in healthcare training.

Can arts and research spaces create barriers for people with marginalised identities instead of supporting them? Psychotherapeutic counsellor and writer Grace Quantock explains how and poses the questions we should be asking.

2020 was a year that saw racial tension come to the fore. Amanda Huxtable, Director and Creative Producer at Vanitas Arts, reflects now on the role of cultural leaders to create safer spaces and take responsibility for change.

What happens when the worlds of culture and health collide? Facilitator and leadership coach Mike Chitty explains how the two go hand in hand, and argues that using health budgets effectively could change society.

In this blog, Lara Ratnaraja and Dr Roaa Ali share their thoughts on what the research presented at our first Covid-19 research webinar is telling us about inequalities in both the cultural workforce and in cultural engagement.

We're delighted to launch Reflecting Value, our new podcast. Hosted Dr Robyn Dowlen, it shares the successes and challenges of communicating cultural value, bringing together a range of thought-provoking guests for discussion and reflection.

There are 38,000 fewer freelancers working in creative occupations since the start of 2020, our research shows. Freelancers are especially important to the creative economy as they represent a high proportion of the workforce.

The impact of Covid-19 was always going to be devastating and the immediate shock severe. Inequities and inequalities that existed before were inevitably going to be exacerbated. But like any crisis, the impacts are rarely all negative and we are certainly starting to see some interesting shifts in thinking across the sector from our early investigations – shifts that might lead to that elusive goal of enduring systemic change.