Evidence Café 6 - Narrating Cultural Knowledge Exchange: Stories and perspectives from Knowledge Exchange Professionals.
Wednesday 18 May, 14:00 - online
This May’s Evidence Café is on the topic of Narrating Cultural Knowledge Exchange: Stories and Perspectives from Knowledge Exchange Professionals. The session will present and reflect on a series of interviews carried out by Dr Rebekka Kill for NCACE with a number of Knowledge Exchange professionals from around the country over the last few months. The interviews will also go on to form a new NCACE publication to be launched later in the Summer.

Dr Rebekka Kill worked with six knowledge exchange professionals exploring some of their favourite, and most successful KE projects. These projects came from a broad range of arts and creative disciplines but many were interdisciplinary and cross institutional. In these conversations Dr Kill dug deep into the daily practices of the professionals, exploring their roles in depth, it was genuinely fascinating and the purpose of this specific Evidence Café will be to further reflect on the interviews and what they tell us about the current state of cultural collaborations.

This Café session will be hosted by Dr Rebekka Kill and Evelyn Wilson (Co-Director, NCACE) with Andrew Wray (Director of Research Impact, University of Bristol), Alisdair Aldous (Director of Knowledge Exchange, University of the Arts), Deborah Keogh (Knowledge Exchange Manager, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) and Helen Sargeant (Principal Lecturer, Knowledge Transfer and Apprenticeships, University of Wolverhampton). Bring your tea, your notebook and as many ideas as you want.

NCACE What We Are Doing And How To Get Involved: arts and cultural sector perspectives on knowledge exchange.
Wednesday 25 May, 14:00 - online
This online session provides an informal opportunity to hear an overview of recent NCACE research into arts and cultural sector perspectives on collaborating with higher education institutions, case studies on the benefits and challenges of cultural knowledge exchange from Opera North and Cap-a-Pie and find out what’s coming up from NCACE and how to get involved.

NCACE / Clore Leadership Workshop
Tuesday 21 June, 09:30 - online
Our second Leadership Workshop, held in collaboration with Clore Leadership will centre supporting leaders through change and uncertainty with a focus on developing collaborations for organisational resilience, and personal networks for self-care. The workshop will involve a combination of reflective and interactive sessions and key takeaways will include tips for best practice from leaders in the arts and cultural sector and higher education, developing value based collaborations, finding allies internally and externally and light touch strategies for self-care. The workshop is free but booking is essential, further details to follow, please register your interest here.

Culture and Collaborations on Climate Emergency:
Shining a light on the contribution of Higher Education and culture led collaboration to our understandings of climate emergency, climate justice and net zero.
Thursday 23 June, 10:00 - online
Climate Emergency is a key theme under-pinning our work and we are creating spaces for conversations around cultural collaborations on climate emergency, climate justice and related arising themes and concerns. We are exploring how, where and why these are, and have been, emerging, how they are being supported, what their impacts are and the role that policy, funding initiatives and other factors are playing, or have the potential to play, in their development.

Through this Culture and Collaborations on Climate Emergency workshop we are setting out to create a space to:

• highlight the role of collaborative initiatives with a focus on climate emergency, climate justice, net zero and related areas that are occurring between key stakeholders including: Higher Education, the arts and cultural sector, local authorities, community partnerships and other relevant actors
• showcase a diverse range of research projects and creative collaborations from around the country and beyond.
• encourage dialogue, discussion and information sharing between researchers and others working in Higher Education, arts and cultural practitioners, policy-makers and funders on this most timely and important of topics.