Dear Reader,
A warm welcome to our February bulletin.
We are looking forward to our upcoming annual showcase event The Power of Collaborative Action: People, Place and Planet on March 9th with contributors including: Ruby Jennings (Little Lost Robot), Claire Malcolm (Chief Executive, New Writing North), Professor Katy Shaw (Northumbria University and AHRC's Programme Director, Creative Communities), Professor Christopher Smith (Executive Chair, AHRC), David Sweeney (Executive Chair, Research England), Professor Neelam Raina (Middlesex University), Amanda Parker (Chief Executive, INC Arts) and Rachel Pownall (Bath Spa University).
Our next Knowledge Impacts Network (KIN) takes place on 16th March and is focused on developing impact for Higher Education professionals engaged in activating, nurturing and reporting on knowledge exchange activities with the arts and cultural sector. Facilitators include: Dr Astrid Breel (Bath Spa University), Sian Brittain (Guildhall School of Music and Drama) and Suzie Leighton (NCACE and TCCE).
In case you missed it, you can now listen to the recording from our recent Evidence Café on Cultural Knowledge Exchange and the Climate Emergency.
NCACE Repository
NCACE’s Evidence Repository is now live and offers a unique online resource of materials relating to knowledge exchange and collaborations between academia and the arts and cultural sectors. We warmly invite contributions across all themes. Please email emily@tcce.co.uk if you would like to submit material.
NCACE Publications
Our most recent research reports include:
HEIs’ Engagement with the Arts and Cultural Sector: Evidence from the Knowledge Exchange Framework 2021 Narratives (Dr Federica Rossi, Dr Valentina Rizzoli and Emily Hopkins)
Collaborating with Higher Education Institutions: Findings from NCACE Survey with Arts Professional (Evelyn Wilson, Emily Hopkins and Dr Federica Rossi)
The Role of ‘Place’ in Collaborations Between HEIs and the Arts and Cultural Sector (Dr Federica Rossi and Emily Hopkins)
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 seeing you in the near future.
Evelyn Wilson (Co-Director, NCACE) and Noshin Sultan (Project and Partnerships Manager, NCACE)
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NCACE Job Opportunity: Senior Manager - Research, Evidence and Policy
We are seeking a Senior Manager (Research, Evidence and Policy) to join our team. NCACE is funded by Research England, our key purpose is to facilitate and support Knowledge Exchange between Higher Education and the arts and cultural sector. The main purpose of the role is to work closely with the NCACE directors, wider project team and regional hub partners to achieve defined project targets in two closely related areas.
Firstly, on the continued development of the NCACE Evidence Hub and Evidence Repository as a robust research and evidence base focusing on the social, cultural, environmental and economic impacts produced by collaborations between Higher Education and the arts and culture sector.
Secondly, on the development of a suite of activities to bring together policy-makers, academics, Higher Education specialists in areas such as Knowledge Exchange and Public Engagement, arts and culture sector professionals and stakeholders from other fields for information sharing, exchange and joined up thinking and working.
Click here to find out more about the role and to apply. Deadline for applications is 21 February 2022.
The Power of Collaborative Action: People, Place and Planet
Wednesday 9 March 2022, 10:00 - online
The Power of Collaborative Action is our annual workshop devoted to supporting and showcasing great examples of collaboration between Higher Education and the arts and cultural sectors. This year’s event will focus on People, Place and Planet and through it we will consider how knowledge exchange and working in partnership fosters connections, creativity and innovation across a myriad of important and often interconnecting themes including: Place-making and Levelling up, Climate Emergency and Health and Wellbeing.
Offering reflections from key thinkers, practitioners and policy makers and showcasing diverse models of excellent and impactful knowledge exchange, The Power of Collaborative Action: People, Place and Planet will be of interest to all those who are invested in the potential of knowledge exchange between the academy and the arts and cultural sector. It will also be instructive for those who are interested in such activity and wish to find out more.
We are delighted to be joined by: Claire Malcolm (Chief Executive, New Writing North), Professor Katy Shaw (Northumbria University and AHRC's Programme Director, Creative Communities), Professor Christopher Smith (Executive Chair, AHRC), David Sweeney (Executive Chair, Research England), Amanda Parker (Chief Executive, INC Arts), Rachel Pownall (Innovation Manager, Bath Spa University), Ruby Jennings (Little Lost Robot) and Professor Neelam Raina (Middlesex University). We will be announcing more contributors in coming weeks.
Knowledge Impacts Network (KIN): Telling the Story of Knowledge Exchange
Wednesday 16 March, 14:00 - online
This session of the NCACE Knowledge Impacts Network is designed to address the particular needs of those who work within Higher Education knowledge exchange, impact development or public engagement. You might be a KE engaged researcher, hold a professional services role related to KE or Impact Development, or have ended up with an “accidental” responsibility for work of this nature within your institution or department! If you have responsibility for activating, nurturing and reporting on knowledge exchange activities with the arts and cultural sector this event is for you.
Convened by and delivered with those who work in these interesting yet challenging roles, this session will offer an opportunity to connect with others to widen professional networks and to create a supportive and confidential space to discuss issues of mutual interest. Facilitators include:
You may also be interested in:
Performing Oral History Symposium
11 - 13 April 2022 - online
This symposium focuses on the ways in which oral testimony may be used a source of creative endeavour, resulting in performance which can be shared with a wider audience. This event will be of interest to theatre practitioners, oral historians, academics in the worlds of Arts, Humanities and Education, Community Activists, Archivists and people exploring creative approaches to oral history with people with dementia and their carers.
Understanding the lived experience of ethnic minority students in postgraduate research
This report presents the findings from the first qualitative research on the experiences of ethnic minority postgraduate research students accessing and studying at GuildHE member institutions. It captures, through interviews, students’ perceptions and experiences of studying a postgraduate research degree at smaller and specialist higher education institutions.
Fully-funded PhD studentship in evaluation of arts outreach
Dance East is undertaking a major project creating new applications of digital technologies for teaching dance and integrating dance education within the primary school curriculum. This PhD studentship, funded by the University of Essex in partnership with Dance East, will develop innovative evaluation strategies for measuring the social, cultural, and economic impact of this exciting Dance East project. Through the evaluation of the Dance East case study, the PhD candidate will develop a new, multimodal framework for the evaluation of arts and cultural programmes more widely.
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This month's blogs are by NCACE's Co-Investigator for Evidence and Impacts Dr Federica Rossi who reflects on our REF report How does academic research generate arts and culture-related impact?, NCACE’s Intern Anja Rekeszus summarises our latest Evidence Café event Cultural Knowledge Exchange and the Climate Emergency and Communications Manager Rachel Lasebikan announces the four projects awarded the NCACE Micro-Commissions.
How does academic research generate arts and culture-related impact?
While the Research and Excellence Framework (REF) has been devised primarily as an instrument to assess the quality of university research and of institutional research environments, the information collected is rapidly proving an invaluable source of qualitative information about the type of research that universities do, and how this generates real-world impact. In particular, the impact case studies submitted to the REF can be used to address the need for more and better evidence about research impact in relation to arts and culture.
Cultural Knowledge Exchange and the Climate Emergency
On 20th January 2022, NCACE hosted the fifth Evidence Café under the title ‘Cultural Knowledge Exchange and the Climate Emergency’. The Evidence Café is hosted within the context of the Evidencing and Impact Development work strand; it is an online community of practise which is designed to support evidence and storytelling around cultural KE. For this event, three speakers were invited to give insight into their KE work, surrounding the core theme of the climate emergency which set the stage for a lively and multi-faceted discussion.
NCACE supports four Micro-Commissions to co-create a new and different future for Arts/Culture and Higher Education collaborations
Following on from the NCACE Ideas Pool Open Call in the Autumn of 2021, inviting NCACE Micro-Commission applications, the team is delighted to announce that four awards have been allocated to university and arts/cultural sector partnerships. Outcomes from the four awarded collaborative projects will feed specifically into NCACE’s ‘Brokerage, Collaboration Support and Networking’ Areas of Work, to aid academic staff with a keen interest in developing social impacts, and arts/culture sector workers who wish to develop university partnerships, with better knowledge exchange and collaboration understanding.
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.
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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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