NCACE Monthly Bulletin

Dear Reader,

A warm welcome to our June edition of the bulletin.

We have said it before and we’ll say it again; a heartfelt thank you to everyone who has contributed to, or participated in, our activities over these last few months. It has been an intensely busy and productive period. We have been listening and learning so much from the conversations that have been unfolding through not only our events but also through the many conversations we have been having with so many of you.

In June, we were delighted to host a number of key events including our first policy workshop Collaboration in Place-making: Revealing the roles of universities and arts partnerships and knowledge exchange and Knowledge Impacts Network: Co-Designing KIN.

We are delighted to announce that our final two events of the summer include our third Evidence Café session as well as a series of ‘What If..?’ events being hosted by our regional partners in Birmingham and Newcastle.

NCACE Collaborations Champions Network

We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who applied or nominated someone to be part of our new Collaborations Champions Network. We have received a very strong suite of applications and in mid-July we will announce our network members. Their key role will be to work with us to develop a vibrant, valued community of practice in the field of cultural knowledge exchange.

NCACE and Arts Professional

In March this year we ran a survey with Arts Professional magazine entitled Collaborating with Higher Education and we were delighted to have 546 respondents. We have drafted a snapshot of the findings and will be publishing our General Findings report later in the Summer.

We have also recently established a new editorial partnership with Arts Professional. Our first article A step change in cultural partnerships with Higher Education was published in early June.

NCACE Out and about

In addition to the many conversations we are having on an ongoing bases, in the last two months, we have spoken about our work at several key events: Westminster Media Forum: Next steps for creative clusters in the UK; Guild HE Spring School for PGR students and, most recently, the annual PraxisAuril Conference.

NCACE is a four year initiative funded by Research England and led by TCCE with regional hub partners including: B ath Spa University, Birmingham City University, Manchester Metropolitan University and Northumbria University.

We are taking a short break over the summer and will be back in September with our first bulletin of the autumn and new academic year.

We thank you for your readership and look forward to working with you.

Evelyn Wilson (Co-Director, NCACE) and Noshin Sultan (Project and Partnerships Manager, NCACE)