Dear Reader,
A warm welcome to March’s edition of the bulletin. Since our last edition, we have launched a range of activities across the centre’s key areas of work.
Earlier this month, we launched two new networks. Our Knowledge Impacts Network has been created as a space for conversation and networking between Higher Education and the arts sector whilst our Evidence Cafe is conceived as an online community of practice to support evidence sharing and story telling about cultural knowledge exchange. Recordings can be found below.
Knowledge Impacts Network (KIN) Part 1 and Part 2
Evidence Cafe
We also ran the first of our ‘NCACE: What we’re doing and how to get involved’ workshops. All events were sold out and we’d like to extend our thanks to all of you who took the time to join us.
Save the Dates: Upcoming events at a glance
13 April NCACE: What we’re doing and how to get involved
11 May NCACE Evidence Cafe
17 June Collaboration in Place-making: Revealing the roles of universities and arts partnerships and knowledge exchange
23 June Knowledge Impacts Network
More information on these events will be disseminated through: twitter @CultureImpacts, our website and in upcoming editions of the bulletin.
Arts Professional survey.
Also this month we ran a three week survey with Arts Professional to find out more about how the arts are working with universities. The survey has just closed and we are currently preparing a snapshot of the findings which will be shared next month.
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. Our purpose is to facilitate and support capacity for Knowledge Exchange, in its widest sense, between Higher Education and the arts and cultural sector across the country with a particular focus on evidencing and showcasing the social, cultural, environmental, as well as the economic, impacts of such activities. Our launch event in February was Knowledge Conversations: The Power of Collaborative Action.
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NCACE Leadership Workshop in collaboration with Clore Leadership Programme
Thursday 1 April, 2pm - Online
Our first Leadership Workshop, delivered in collaboration with the Clore Leadership Programme, with an opening reflection by Professor Carole-Anne Upton. The workshop will offer two facilitated sessions, one on leading from within your organisation and the second on leading outwards – developing professional networks, influencing and creating partnerships with impact. Facilitators include: David Bryan MBA FRSA, Gaylene Gould, Suzie Leighton and Kate Atkinson.
This workshop is sold out but you can join our waitlist.
NCACE: What we’re doing and how to get involved
Tuesday 13 April, 2pm - Online
The aim of this informal session is to outline NCACE’s four key areas of activities and highlight ways in which you may wish to get involved as we grow the centre’s activities over the coming years.
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This month's blogs are by David Sweeney (Executive Chair at Research England) ‘The start of a step change in arts and cultural Knowledge Exchange’ and NCACE Sounding Board member Professor Bambo Soyinka (Professor of Story at Bath Spa University and Director, Paper Nations) ‘Part Two: Storytelling as a collaborative language for cultural exchange’.
The start of a step change in arts and cultural Knowledge Exchange
Knowledge exchange between universities and the arts and cultural sectors is recognised as an area of significant potential and the benefits of this activity could be felt by a wide range of people. While there are some great examples of good practice, more can be done in support of practitioners to fully develop the benefits and opportunities for all.
Part Two: Storytelling as a collaborative language for cultural exchange
In my recent keynote speech for the NCACE launch event, I argued that collaborative research requires a common language to facilitate cultural exchange and understanding between all parties. In this blog post, I propose that storytelling could be that lingua franca and I consider the implications of this for the professional development of future researchers.
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. For general enquiries, get in touch with Noshin Sultan noshin@tcce.co.uk.
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)
Image: © Bill Leslie, Leap then Look: An NCACE micro-commission 2020.
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