The Centre for Cultural Value is connecting with international academic colleagues as part of a new COST Action: Connecting Critical Pedagogies, Inclusive Art Forms and Alternative Barometers for Urban Sustainability.

A new report calls for a new era of creativity and the arts in schools, boosting the creative economy and providing new opportunities to children whose talents are at risk of being wasted.

In a northern market town, a light and sound installation simultaneously sparks a wealth of community interactions and highlights the often messy process of cultural placemaking.

As the Centre’s initial five-year funding period ends, we share our plans to take a deliberate and strategic pause to reflect, innovate and prioritise the Centre’s long-term sustainability.

Researchers Alice Borchi and Carlo Alberto Petruzzi examine recent events in Florence, a city caught between the pressures of mass tourism and the need to preserve its cultural identity.

This collaborative research project explored how diasporic communities connect with history in their contemporary lived experiences, alongside the histories of the countries and regions from which they, or their ancestors, departed.

In this research project, supported by the Centre’s Collaborate fund, the Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum partnered with Dr Aisling O’Boyle to explore the social role of local museums in fostering cultural inclusion.

Their collaborative research partnership explored how 'arts-led dialogue' can uncover the psychological and social effects of digitising memory and memorialisation through immersive theatre performance, Granny Jackson's Dead.

How can extra-curricular activity providers become more inclusive with their offer for children? An animator and neuroscientist explore factors hindering and facilitating the engagement of autistic children.

New research into how the ‘devolution revolution’ and increased local decision-making can affect the creative, cultural and heritage ecosystem has been unveiled by Culture Commons.

Can finding your creative voice unlock your civic activist voice? And what potential barriers or social inequalities might limit this?

2024 marks five years of the Centre for Cultural Value. Our recently published five-year review reflects upon the work and impact of the Centre across its first five years.

A new research paper, produced by the Centre for Cultural Value in partnership with Culture Commons as part of a major open policy development programme, highlights the growing importance of inclusive, sustainable and locally tailored approaches when developing and evaluating cultural strategies.

Find out more about English Touring Opera's new songwriting programme for young people, inspired by our research.

Reflecting upon the findings from the Centre's research into the impact of Covid-19, our new publication Pandemic Culture is now available to buy or download for free.

Centre Manager Liz Harrop reflects on what we can learn from the Centre’s experience of supporting collaborative research projects.

Meet our new director, Dr Stephen Dobson, Associate Professor of Creativity and Enterprise at the University of Leeds.

The Evaluation Learning Space is a newly launched resource hub, sharing hidden learning about evaluation from the cultural sector. Find out more about the space and our in-depth look at UK Cities of Culture.

At a time when the cultural sector is increasingly invested in “co-creation” – what does the process look like in practice? Compass Live Art has been working with researchers Matthew Reason and Lauren Hall digging deeper into questions of co-creation.

How does power imbalance manifest in creative partnerships - and how do we remove it from our work? We reflect on the findings of a collaborative research partnership between Rising Arts Agency and researcher Andreana Drencheva at Kings College London.

In this Q&A, Pam Johnson, Head of Culture Programmes at Leeds City Council, shares more about how the decision-making process works and discusses the value of collaboration between policymakers, academics and cultural practitioners.

Artist Sarah Hunter, physicist Rox Middleton and philosopher Lucy Tomlinson spotlight what they learnt from spending a year exploring the cultural value of beauty through their collaborative research project.

Have you taken our online course, 'Evaluation for Arts, Culture and Heritage: Principles and Practice'? Add to your learning by watching our follow-up workshop, featuring conversations with our course leaders and insights from participants

In their collaborative research project, Euella Jackson and Jess Bunyan of Rising Arts Agency have been exploring the unequal balance of power inherent in partnership working.

The collaborative research team behind The Beauty Project assess the value and challenges of collecting audience reflections offline.

Read more about a new Arts Council England resource, produced by the Centre of Cultural Value and The Audience Agency, that helps cultural organisations interested in supporting everyday creativity.

When Crafts Council and Glasgow Caledonian University London began their collaborative research project looking at the cultural value of craft in the context of race and racism in the UK, they decided to recruit a group focusing specifically on equity.

Artist Rebecca Farkas highlights the main themes of the Centre's new research digest exploring the role of the artist in society.

How can cultural organisations make sure placements are meaningful for all involved? Yashika Munjal reflects on her experience as a Young Craft Citizen with the Crafts Council, working on one of our funded Collaborate research projects.

What makes a great collaboration? Marianna Hay and Lisa Baxter draw out lessons from a range of partnerships in this collaborative blog post which explores how to sustain your work with partners over the long term.

Craft can boost wellbeing, celebrate culture and help build communities, according to a new report produced by the Crafts Council working with academics from Glasgow Caledonian University London.

Are you keen to develop evaluation skills and confidence? Find out about our new online course - Evaluation for Arts, Culture and Heritage: Principles and Practice.

It's been two years since we first launched the Evaluation Principles. We wanted to talk to sector professionals about how they have informed their work.

We would like to commission a visual artist, filmmaker or animator to produce an original work responding to the key themes of our new research digest, The Social Role of the Artist

Five new cultural sector and academic partnerships will receive Collaborate fund research grants.

Learn more about our work exploring the cultural value and social impact of LEEDS 2023.

As part of their Collaborate project Rising Arts Agency and Andreana Drencheva are producing a new podcast series Power in Partnerships.

Hear more about the Centre for Cultural Value's Collaborate fund from academics currently working on supported research projects exploring key questions about the value of culture.

Were you unable to join us for the recent Evaluation Principles in Practice workshops? Would you like to re-visit the sessions? All three workshops, exploring the co-created Evaluation Principles, are now available to watch online.

Are you a UK-based academic keen to begin 2023 working on an exciting new research project? The Centre has reopened its Collaborate fund, which seeks to support collaborative research partnerships between academics and cultural practitioners.

How do we evaluate, understand and articulate the value of beauty? One of our Collaborate research partnerships considers new methodologies to answer this intriguing question.

What are "walking interviews"? And how can they be used to research co-creation in the cultural sector? The Collaborate research partnership between Compass Live Art and York St John University puts this research methodology through its paces.

In the report "Making Data Work", we share findings from a national, interdisciplinary research project aimed at tackling the crisis the cultural sector is currently facing in harnessing and evaluating its data.

The Centre for Cultural Value is reopening its Collaborate fund to support the development of innovative new projects between UK-based cultural sector practitioners and academic researchers. 

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.

We are delighted to announce that the Collaborate fund has now awarded research grants to five innovative new partnerships between cultural sector practitioners and academics. 

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.