Northern Ireland audience survey reveals cost-of-living impact
A new, first of its kind survey for Northern Ireland hightlights how the cost-of-living crisis is affecting arts audiences. The IM…
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Artist to explore well-being in rural communities
An artist has been appointed to undertake a research commission to explore well-being in rural communities in Northumberland. The…
Don’t let your marketers head for the exit door
A survey of arts and cultural marketers reveals a growing sense of unfairness around pay and working conditions. Matt Ecclestone h…
Gender pay gap progess in some creative sectors
New data show that in some cultural and creative subsectors including music, performance and visual arts, women outearned men in 2…
Culture and place: Why we need to look beyond cities
Arts and culture are integral to shaping the places we live. We now need to understand the effects cultural placemaking practices…
Increase in music industry diversity at entry level
UK Music has called on the next government to be 'fast and fearless' in working to remove entry barriers to the music indu…
Local museums are much loved, but their future is uncertain
A new report into the challenges facing the museum and gallery sector has just been published. Rachael Browning outlines its key f…
Study highlights wellbeing impact of theatre company
Work by a theatre company for learning-disabled perfromers is providng them with benefits offstage as well as on, a study has foun…
UK arts funding drops 16% since 2017
Research commissioned by performers' union Equity has been used to create an Arts Investment Tracker, showing changing levels…
Are arts students a burden on the taxpayer?
The Higher Education sector is up in arms about proposed cuts to creative arts courses which, it says, will further damage the UK&…
Closing the ‘enrichment gap’
The erosion of opportunities to study the expressive arts in school has created a crisis in arts teaching, writes Sally Bacon.
One in five creative workers experience serious sexual assault
Creative employees say freelance precarity and power dynamics foster a toxic environment where one in five people experience serio…
Positive impact of Ireland’s basic income pilot continues
A year into the pilot, artists receiving a weekly stipend are spending more time on their practice per week, less time workin…
Orchestras ‘vital’ part of UK cultural heritage, survey reports
A survey has shown that 70% of people agree that music is important to their well-being.
Concerns of ‘digital divide’ across cultural organisations
Research finds a 'huge range of effectiveness' between different cultural organisations when it comes to web pages focused…
Census data ‘a goldmine’ for cultural policymakers
Cultural policy makers have not focused much on census data in the past, but that data is a goldmine for researchers, says Mark Ta…
Young people ‘more interested’ in opera than older peers
Young people are more open to attending opera performances than their older peers, a research project has found. A poll conducted…
New beginnings for post-pandemic theatre workers
Covid has affected the UK theatre industry at all levels, with wide ranging impacts on the workforce, livelihoods, working practic…
Brexit losses
After a recent appearance before Wales’s Culture Committee, Charlotte Faucher has been rethinking our new relationship with…
Creating space for collective learning
Evaluation reports in the cultural sector can be packed full of learning. Emma McDowell explores how we might unearth this existin…
ACE to develop AI best practice guidance for cultural sector
Arts Council England has teamed up with Goldsmiths, University of London, to develop best practice guidance on using artificial in…
Camden youth arts scheme creates £3.7m in social value
Research from Social Change UK estimates that for every £1 invested by Roundhouse in its youth film and digital projects, &p…
Majority of artists in South West earn less than £10,000
Fewer than half of visual artists in the South West have been commissioned to create new work in the past year survey finds.
Tackling freelance precarity
A report from King’s College London looks at potential policy solutions to combat precarity in freelance cultural work. Sana…
