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NCACE MONTHLY BULLETIN
Issue 11, 11 November 2021

Dear Reader,

A warm welcome to our November bulletin. 

It’s been a busy start to the Autumn and enormous thanks to those of you who joined our Ideas Pool, Evidence Café and/or Getting Involved event over the last few weeks.

NCACE Case Studies

As we enter our second year, we are starting to further expand our evidence base. One important element of this is the establishment of a bank of cultural knowledge exchange case studies. We warmly invite anyone interested in helping us to build this vital resource to get in touch with our Senior Manager Emily Hopkins (emily@tcce.co.uk) in the first instance.

Evaluation base-line

At the centre, we take evaluation seriously, building it into our core work right from the beginning. Led by Dr Thanasis Spyriadis, our baseline survey will be shared next week. We would love to hear from you if you can take a short while to share your thoughts with us. Your input will actively help shape the direction of the centre’s activities. We welcome responses from: academics, knowledge exchange staff and arts and culture sector professionals and practitioners. If you are interested in taking part in our survey then please get in touch with Dr Thanasis Spyriadis (thanasis@tcce.co.uk).

NCACE Publications

In case you missed them, we were pleased last month to announce the first three in our publications.

 

Evidencing Cultural Knowledge Exchange on Environment, Climate Emergency and Climate Justice

We are delighted to welcome Anja Rekeszuz to the NCACE team as our first Evidence and Impact Intern. Anja is currently completing her PhD at King’s College London and will be working with us on building resources on cultural knowledge exchange projects with an environmental or climate change/justice theme. 

Finally, we are pleased to announce our latest Arts Professional article; Arts and Higher Education: A successful partnership in action by Professor Katy Shaw (Northumbria University) and Claire Malcolm (New Writing North). 

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

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

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

OPPORTUNITIES

‘What if?’ -  Redefining Research and Citizenship
What if citizens were not seen merely as beneficiaries of research but were instead considered as leaders and initiators? What would happen if citizens were recognised as equals in the research process and valued for their unique expertise and insights? In a fast-changing world, how can citizens from all walks of life be at the forefront of vital research?

On the 13th of January, a ‘What If?’ event exploring Citizen Research will be held. It will be hosted in partnership with the National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange (NCACE), Bath Spa University’s Research Centre for Transcultural Creativity and Education (TRACE @ Bath Spa) and Cultural Literacy Everywhere (CLE). The event will take the form of a roundtable discussion, and a series of podcasts will be produced.

If you would like to take part in this event, let us know how your current research, practice, academic background or artistic/cultural experience could add to the debate. Please send a 100-150 word statement of interest, and a 75-100 word bio to tracec@bathspa.ac.uk by the 23rd of November.

KIN Support Set
We are delighted to be launching our first KIN Support Set this month, with further groups to be announced in the New Year. These small groups are made up of participants from across higher education and the arts and cultural sector and will use coaching and action learning techniques to support creative problem solving and collaboration. Sets will be given 3 facilitated sessions by Guildhall Coaching Associates, and then have the option of continuing to meet independently. We still have a few places available for arts and cultural sector professionals to join the set launching in the New Year, please email noshin@tcce.co.uk to register your interest.

Ideas Pool: Co-Creating A New and Different Future for Arts / Higher Education Collaboration
Last month we were delighted to run our first Ideas Pool: Co-Creating A New and Different Future for Arts / Higher Education Collaboration, a very well attended and interactive workshop that considered how these two sectors can co-create ways of working together that will lead to more mutually beneficial, impactful and resilient collaborations. Presentations from Christopher Smith, Executive Director AHRC, Andrew Barnett, Director of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation UK, and Hilary Carty, Executive Director Clore Leadership that were given as part of the event are available on the NCACE Soundcloud. We are delighted to be able to offer up to 5 NCACE Micro-Commissions to support partnerships arising from the Ideas Pool to work up their ideas. We look forward to sharing these with you, and remind those working on their proposals to have them with us by 30th November!

You may also be interested in: 

Clore Leadership: Emerging Leaders and Leadership Pulse
NCACE collaborators Clore Leadership, who provide a range of leadership development programming for the cultural sector, are delighted to be partnering with the AHRC to provide full fee bursary opportunities for their Spring 2022 courses. Arts and Humanities academics based within a UK Higher Education Institution research organisation who are committed to developing as a cultural leader, are able to apply during this application round which closes on 23rd November 2021. More information available here. 

Strengthening Music in Society: The way forward for UK Conservatoires
Thursday 16 December, 09:30
Hosted by Guildhall School of Music & Drama's Institute for Social Impact Research in the Performing Arts, in association with Conservatoires UK (CUK), the Association Européenne des Conservatoires, Académies de Musique et Musikhochschulen (AEC) and SEMPRE, this conference aims to bring together key voices and perspectives from across the HE music sector to collectively address the challenges and opportunities currently facing UK conservatoires and the classical music system of which they are a part.
This month's blogs are by Kerry Wilson (Head of Research at the Institute of Cultural Capital and NCACE Collaborations Champion) Healthy Networks: personal and professional development through cross-sector collaboration and David Thomson (Eat Club session leader and independent food learning producer) Around the Kitchen Table.

Healthy Networks: personal and professional development through cross-sector collaboration
Kerry Wilson, Head of Research at the Institute of Cultural Capital and NCACE Collaboration Champion, reflects on her experience of partnership work in the culture, health and wellbeing field. With a focus on three defining principles, or key characteristics, of the collaborative relationships that underpin this work – communication, connectivity and comradeship.

Around the Kitchen Table
For five weeks during the 2021 summer holidays, the youth cooking charity Eat Club teamed up with partners from the Kings Cross Knowledge Quarter to deliver a unique cook and eat programme, themed around each partner’s work. The project was intended to explore the exciting possibilities of using food and food culture for knowledge exchange between academic institutions and local young people.

We are keen to hear about your collaborative projects or related works and invite you to contribute to our blog. You can read our current blog posts on our website and can access the NCACE Blog Guidelines here. For further information contact Noshin Sultan on noshin@tcce.co.uk. 
Given the nature of our work, NCACE is likely to be of interest and relevance to those within Higher Education (HE) research and knowledge exchange, as well as those working in the arts and cultural sector. We are also very happy to hear from other interested individuals and organisations who may be interested in our work. There is more information on how to get involved on our website. 

In the meantime you can follow us on Twitter @CultureImpacts and LinkedIn for the latest NCACE news and announcements. You can also listen to recordings of past NCACE events via our SoundCloud channel. For general enquiries, get in touch with Noshin Sultan noshin@tcce.co.uk.

Image: © Bill Leslie, Leap then Look: An NCACE micro-commission 2020.
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