Here you'll find links to all the research in CultureCase, ordered under the themes below.
Impacts of arts and culture
- How people make and transform memory through art
- The dynamics that determine cover versions in recorded western music
- How book groups talk about fictional characters as if they were real people
- The different audience responses to Shakespeare staged in a women’s prison
- The impact of jazz festivals
- The impact of dance and music training on our brains
- The emotional power of poetry and its impact on our brains
- Musicians react faster than non-musicians
- Dance as a form of emotion-sensitivity training
- The different effects of group singing on middle-class and marginalised people
- Cultural value is best understood through conversations with audiences
- Reading literary fiction improves emotion recognition
- Subsidised performances are more innovative and imaginative
- How art changes your brain
- Attempting to measure the intrinsic value of live music
- Reading fiction is related to developing empathic skills
- Setting the right conditions for community dance
- Measuring intrinsic benefits of theatre with the Arts Audience Experience Index
- Social interaction in a gallery shapes our reception to art
- The artistic experience is not created for the consumer, but co-created with them
- Dance classes allow people to test themselves and explore new identities
- Theatre allows people to lose themselves for a moment, and find new ways of viewing the world
- Arts education for disadvantaged children improves test scores and behaviour
- Using the arts to help prepare children for school success
- Music lessons associated with improved test scores for Science, Maths and English
- Music education promotes lifelong engagement with the arts
- How parents and teachers can help get young children into the visual arts
- Low-income children benefit emotionally from arts-integrated preschool programming
- Music can enhance children’s transition to school
- Prolonged arts education reduces stress in children from low-income households
- An art museum visit can enhance students’ critical thinking skills
- The positive impacts of active music participation for infants
- The effects of music training on hearing in children
- Playing a musical instrument increases educational attainment
- Group music training improves children's pro-social skills
- Can arts in education prevent high school drop outs?
- Singing can facilitate foreign language learning
- Youth theatre provides a space for young people to gain skills they need to succeed
- Arts engagement has a range of benefits for young people
- Using talk to affect learning in museums
- Using an after-school arts programme to help ‘at-risk’ children
- Using contemporary art to explore children’s identity
- Music lessons enhance IQ while drama increases social skills
- Arts education can help with students' maths ability
- After-school arts programmes can increase the educational attainment of 'at-risk' students
- The arts help children with special educational needs
- Dance can help improve young children’s social skills
- Theatre and performance can improve the social skills of 'at-risk' youth
- Theatre programmes can increase children's maths ability
- Music lessons boost children's self-esteem
- Intensive visual arts education improves children's creativity and self-efficacy
- Drama helps students work better in groups and solve problems
- The arts help people form diverse friendship groups
- The economic impact of hosting a European Capital of Culture
- Establishing a European-style 'culture house' may boost elite culture at the expense of community arts
- Artists can be public sector intrapreneurs
- To indirectly support innovation, museums should concentrate on their core mission
- How brand museums turn products into heritage
- Using street art for sustainable urban tourism
- The Social Return on Investment from a public art project
- Measuring the social return on investment of an art gallery
- A vibrant cultural scene helps ensure a more efficient tourism sector
- The economic impact of a jazz festival in Italy
- The relationship between arts and gentrification
- The impact of jazz festivals
- The impact of e-books and hardcovers on the paperback market in Japan
- Travel purpose and expenditure of tourists to Amsterdam
- How European Capitals of Culture attempt to stimulate growth
- Instilling innovation: an economic defence of arts and crafts
- Successful cultural districts increase employment and income
- Calculating the economic value of a museum
- The economic impact of music festivals is determined by size and location
- Salamanca, Capital of Culture 2002, generated an economic impact of €701.5m
- Reducing violence through music in Colombia
- What makes for a cultural and creative city
- The views of venue managers in a live music destination undergoing change
- Establishing a European-style 'culture house' may boost elite culture at the expense of community arts
- Using street art for sustainable urban tourism
- Pursuing social cohesion via the arts in rural communities
- Music preferences map onto economic and political divides in America
- The positive and negative impacts of a cultural festival
- The use of arts and creativity in place branding strategy
- Cultural amenities attract highly skilled workers
- Participatory art projects can be catalysts for developing community
- The creative dividend of diversity
- The relationship between arts and gentrification
- The impact of jazz festivals
- Urban culture strategies don’t work in rural areas
- The adverse effects of art-led regeneration
- Cultural mega-events can adversely affect local residents
- What aging facilities mean for performances and audiences
- Living near museums and galleries is important for overall cultural engagement
- Using culture in local development to increase wellbeing
- Poetry as a positive community development tool
- How an art project empowered a Sardinian village
- Art can help involve citizens in local planning processes
- The arts have an important role in regenerating communities
- Art spaces can act as community spaces
- Fostering creativity by building the ‘good city’
- Understanding ‘place’ in arts-driven urban development
- Using mega events to increase profile and reach audiences
- The role of the arts in event-led regeneration policies
- Four types of arts-based community development
- Capitalising on the public value of the arts in Denver, Colorado
- Successful cultural districts increase employment and income
- Culture makes neighbourhoods more affluent and desirable places to live
- The effects of music listening at different life stages
- The effect of music and movement on mother-infant interactions
- Cultural engagement lowers the risk of developing dementia in old age
- How art-making aids recovery from mental health challenges
- Using art therapy to reduce stress in cancer outpatients
- Using dance therapy to prevent falls
- How group singing improves wellbeing for dementia patients
- Prescribe art and nature to improve wellbeing
- An intergenerational music and dance project that improved wellbeing
- Music can be part of a holistic approach to pain management
- Music and singing can help with pain management
- Programmes like Dance to Health could save the NHS hundreds of millions of pounds a year
- The impact of cultural activities on the wellbeing of immigrants
- Arts engagement is associated with increased wellbeing and connectedness, and less intense loneliness
- Frequent participation in the performing arts is associated with better mental health
- The impact of Playback Theatre on the mental health of older adults
- The benefits of arts programmes for older people in acute healthcare settings
- Understanding the relationship between happiness and arts attendance
- Dance can improve quality of life for those with Parkinson’s Disease
- Personal writing can be healing for people with mental health conditions
- Help prevent depression in old age by staying culturally active
- Using the arts to enhance communication in dementia care
- The wellbeing benefits of theatre attendance later in life
- Your brain on music
- A ballet-based dance intervention for people with Parkinson’s
- Attendance at cultural events associated with longevity
- The relationship between subjective wellbeing and engagement in arts, culture and sport
- The health benefits of an arts project for older offenders
- Prolonged arts education reduces stress in children from low-income households
- Long-term improvements in wellbeing and social inclusion through art for people with mental health difficulties
- Treating dementia using arts interventions
- Managing dementia through object handing in museums
- Frequent attendance at cultural events associated with reduced cancer mortality
- The benefits of arts engagement for people experiencing mental health issues
- Singing and dancing in groups is associated with increased wellbeing
- Making art can help reduce stress
- Using art to develop a workforce
- Music and audio books can enhance the rehabilitation of stroke patients
- Music training can help children cope with stress
- How much arts engagement is needed to enhance wellbeing?
- The many benefits of group drumming for mental health service users
- The effect of choral singing on wellbeing
- Concert attendance reduces stress and improves immune function
- Music listening enhances recovery and mood after stroke
- Music activities benefit dementia patients and their carers
- Group singing improves the mental health of older adults
- Music reduces stress during medical procedures
- Choral singing can help people living with aphasia
- Using culture in local development to increase wellbeing
- Dance raises your pain threshold and aids social bonding
- Using contemporary art to facilitate remembering and enhance wellbeing
- The health benefits of arts interventions in a primary care setting
- Social activities protect against health literacy decline in older age
- Engagement with contemporary visual art can improve the lives of older people
- Contemporary dance enhances physical fitness and psychological wellbeing
- Participating in cultural activities is associated with higher levels of life satisfaction
- Choral singing has a soothing effect on heart rate
- Cultural activity can improve the health of older people
- Lifelong musical experience can offset the effects that ageing has on the brain
- Helping Parkinson’s sufferers through ballet
- The arts may improve health, wellbeing and vitality
- Music can be used as a way for people to control their mood and environment
- Singing can help the immune system and improve mood
- Theatre training can improve cognitive function and psychological wellbeing of older people
- Theatre and performance can improve the social skills of 'at-risk' youth
- Singing can sustain psychological wellbeing
- Arts engagement has a positive effect on quality of life
- Art therapy improves stroke victims' quality of life
- Art therapy makes dementia patients more alert and engaged
- People who frequently attend cultural events tend to live longer
- An active cultural life helps people live longer
- Playing music and singing can help your immune system
- Cultural engagement can bring you psychological wellbeing
- The dynamics that determine cover versions in recorded western music
- Artists can be public sector intrapreneurs
- Instilling creativity at work using theatrical improvisation
- Hosting an artist residency in a scientific research institute
- The impact of jazz festivals
- Men tend to be perceived as creative more often than women
- How learning visual art improves creativity and changes the brain
- Creativity’s genetic similarity to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
- Artists can enhance workplace creativity
- Nursing and the arts: a recipe for creativity in care
- Fostering creativity in young children through the arts
- Youth theatre provides a space for young people to gain skills they need to succeed
- Intensive visual arts education improves children's creativity and self-efficacy
- Using dance to bring about innovation
- Using theatre to engage people in neuroscience and criminal justice
- Measuring the social return on investment of an art gallery
- Three barriers that hold back the use of public art to provoke debate
- The impact of cultural activities on the wellbeing of immigrants
- Using the arts to address social harm
- The cultural values of the future business elite
- Using community entrepreneurs to embed creative ventures in a rural community
- Understanding how movement synchrony shapes infants’ choices
- Group music training improves children's pro-social skills
- Provoking debate through community arts
- Understanding music-making as an act of civic engagement
- Concert-going is related to increased civic engagement
- (Re)constructing identity using contemporary visual art
- Reading fiction is related to developing empathic skills
- Arts organisations have a key role in promoting cultural inclusion
- Arts participation can enhance civil society
- Youth theatre provides a space for young people to gain skills they need to succeed
- Arts engagement has a range of benefits for young people
- Using the arts to help social cohesion
- Using an after-school arts programme to help ‘at-risk’ children
- Using contemporary art to explore children’s identity
- Reading literary fiction improves people’s theory of mind
- Dance can help improve young children’s social skills
- Group singing helps people cope with adverse life events
- Arts engagement has a positive effect on quality of life
- Drama can help reduce antisocial behaviour
- The arts help people form diverse friendship groups
Insights into arts and culture
- The popularity of Spotify playlists changes according to the time of day or night
- Six motivations for attending live music
- How unemployment affects cultural spending
- The dynamics that determine cover versions in recorded western music
- What happens to cultural engagement during times of profound social change?
- How theatres try to maximise attendance and revenue
- Differences in the highbrow and lowbrow tastes of library users
- Use a Centralised Exchange to beat the ticket scalpers
- The reasons musicians favour free streaming services
- Reading for work or study increases the likelihood of reading for pleasure but reduces the time allocated to it
- The social and political profile of ‘cultural omnivores’
- How household bargaining between men and women affects arts attendance
- Reduce piracy through fairer pricing
- The cultural elite (in Spain) are not all the same
- The music tastes of each generation are shaped by what genres are popular during youth
- How talking events help people make sense of art
- Why people go to pop concerts
- The public’s perception of museum admission fees
- Rainy days at the museum
- Why people attend performing arts events
- Personality traits can determine interest in the visual arts
- How weather affects a movie’s box office performance
- Using 'bundling' to increase attendance and loyalty
- How commercial music festivals balance their budgets
- Explaining the decline in music sales due to file-sharing
- Smart women, rich men, no kids: couples’ arts engagement in Italy
- Theatre-going as a type of 'rational addiction'
- The ‘literary bestseller’ – how to market a contradiction in terms
- Changing patterns of musical tastes
- The success of art galleries: a matter of innovation and information
- Word-of-mouth shapes teenage music consumption
- Subsidised performances are more innovative and imaginative
- Patterns of music consumption in the digital age
- Exploding the myth of the musical ‘omnivore’
- Entrance fees deter people of low socio-economic status from visiting museums
- How seasonality and segmentation affect the demand for live theatre
- Profiling visitors to contemporary art museums
- Three segments of theatregoers in northeast England
- Positive online reviews increase book sales
- People like performances with large casts and small ticket prices
- Why do people return to the theatre?
- What shapes demand for opera?
- How do people decide whether or not to visit a museum?
- Children can be key decision-makers in whether or not families visit museums
- The artistic experience is not created for the consumer, but co-created with them
- Word-of-mouth and reviews make the biggest difference to people’s theatre-going choices
- The factors that influence local government spending on culture
- Increased spending on marketing leads to increased revenue
- The best way to attract donations is by making it easy to do and easy to justify
- The role of geography in determining crowdfunding success
- Using a referendum to measure support for arts funding
- Crowdfunding a regular income for cultural projects
- How street performers attract income online
- Understanding whether debt deters donors
- The potential dangers of corporate sponsorship
- Crowdfunding follows traditional investment model
- Corporate sponsors look for arts events and organisations that fulfil corporate objectives
- Corporate sponsorship is about more than just marketing
- Corporations donate to the arts to enhance their image and reputation
- Arts marketing needs to integrate a social impact dimension to satisfy stakeholders
- Arts organisations should target employees to garner corporate support
- Understanding arts engagement in Chinese cities
- The elements of an autism-friendly relaxed performance
- Lowering the cost of attendance does not necessarily increase accessibility for arts events
- Using social media to attract music tourists
- The different ways that education and income influence arts attendance
- The arts engagement barriers faced by those with anxiety or depression
- People can develop a taste for classical music and opera throughout their lives
- Your arts engagement is partly shaped by where you live
- The music tastes of each generation are shaped by what genres are popular during youth
- The cultural elite (in Spain) are not all the same
- Music festivals can really boost the notoriety of lesser known artists
- The vital importance universal access to in-school arts activities
- Six motivations for attending live music
- Using an 'Index of Access' to measure the geographic inquality of cultural amenities
- Exploring why people use social media to engage with music
- Ticket sales data reveals the exclusivity of activities like ballet and literary events
- How people understand social exclusion at music concerts
- Three big ideas for diversifying arts audiences
- Satisfaction builds customer loyalty at a film festival
- A museum's identity shapes its audiences' behaviour
- Arts engagement of graduates is shaped by childhood exposure
- How talking events help people make sense of art
- Why people go to pop concerts
- The factors that determine attendance at museums and historic sites across Europe
- The persuasiveness of theatre reviews and adverts in old and new media
- Understanding the emotional response to museum activities
- Travel purpose and expenditure of tourists to Amsterdam
- The experience of new audiences at classical music performances
- How people acquire new tastes in music
- How a school museum visit helps create cultural equality
- Using 'bundling' to increase attendance and loyalty
- Factors that shape the frequency of attending arts and heritage activities
- Delving into the ways that education shapes cultural engagement
- Understanding the audience at a jazz and blues festival
- How tourism impacts on performing arts attendance
- Museum visitors: two types of motivation
- Using social media to promote reading
- Living near museums and galleries is important for overall cultural engagement
- The barriers that prevent older people engaging with contemporary visual art
- Reach migrant audiences by increasing education
- Using Theatre Talks as an audience development tool
- Education (not status or class) determines arts participation
- Exploding the myth of the musical ‘omnivore’
- Mobile technology will not widen the audience for live classical music
- Perception of value, not simply price, attracts young people to arts events
- Why do more women participate in highbrow cultural activities?
- Entrance fees deter people of low socio-economic status from visiting museums
- How parents shape the reading habits of their children
- The role of the family in shaping adolescent cultural engagement
- Engagement with contemporary visual art can improve the lives of older people
- How seasonality and segmentation affect the demand for live theatre
- Using mega events to increase profile and reach audiences
- Attracting new audiences to contemporary classical music
- Profiling visitors to contemporary art museums
- The viability of a theatre depends on the character of its local population
- Increasing young people's attendance at performing arts events
- Cultivating theatre audiences through online activity
- A familiar repertoire will attract concert audiences, at least in the short term
- Reducing stigma for disabled arts patrons
- Why do music aficionados use online forums?
- Digital broadcasts of live events do not reduce audience numbers
- What shapes demand for opera?
- How do people decide whether or not to visit a museum?
- Children can be key decision-makers in whether or not families visit museums
- Authenticity is a complex issue when marketing classical music
- Most people do not have eclectic music tastes
- Arts marketing needs to integrate a social impact dimension to satisfy stakeholders
- The artistic experience is not created for the consumer, but co-created with them
- Word-of-mouth and reviews make the biggest difference to people’s theatre-going choices
- Education levels determine theatre attendance
- Concert-going has a strongly social aspect that complements the music
- Applying a digital exclusion framework to understand the performance of cultural organisations
- The difference between online and in-person visits to a museum
- Exploring why people use social media to engage with music
- Using Twitter to measure audience reception to a performance
- Book-buying habits since the arrival of ebooks
- Taking a work online may increase audiences but not diversify them
- The reasons musicians favour free streaming services
- Crowdfunding a regular income for cultural projects
- Charting the decline in newspaper live arts coverage
- Social media can increase engagement with museum collections
- How Instagram artists promote mental health awareness
- Using Shakespeare to exert soft power and online cultural diplomacy
- How street performers attract income online
- Understanding online museum communities
- The popularity of Spotify playlists changes according to the time of day or night
- The 'digital turn' taken during COVID was unsustainable
- Understanding online behaviour of rock music fans
- Understanding the emotional response to museum activities
- Using digital platforms for deeper and richer engagement with arts audiences
- Understanding the audience at a jazz and blues festival
- Live jazz: the importance of the audience-performer relationship
- Using social media to promote reading
- The positives and negatives of streaming live theatre and opera
- Mobile technology will not widen the audience for live classical music
- How augmented reality helps museum visitors appreciate paintings
- ‘Digital’ has changed organisations’ strategies as well as their technology
- New technology does not always enhance the gallery visitor experience
- Why do music aficionados use online forums?
- Digital broadcasts of live events do not reduce audience numbers
- Taking art online reaches a new audience and enhances the user experience
- Concert-going has a strongly social aspect that complements the music
- Effective community engagement during capital development projects
- How the creative and cultural sector can adopt anti-oppressive practice
- A participatory approach to cultural mapping
- Using the arts to address social harm
- Highbrow literature may be the cultural common ground among a community of strangers
- Building partnerships to support creative placemaking
- Thinking about cultural engagement in terms of capabilities and ecologies
- Reach migrant audiences by increasing education
- Poetry as a positive community development tool
- Art can help involve citizens in local planning processes
- The arts have an important role in regenerating communities
- Art spaces can act as community spaces
- The role of the arts in event-led regeneration policies
- Best practice in community consultation by museums
- Recruiting and retaining volunteers at a rural producing theatre
- Using participatory decision-making in the arts
- Community consultation puts overstretched organisations on a better footing
- Using the Repertory Grid Technique to consult diverse communities
- Styles of intelligence and global leadership in the arts
- Measuring the ‘quality’ of symphony orchestra repertoires
- How ownership status and organisation structure can affect museum performance
- The factors that make local museums more vulnerable to funding cuts
- Explaining leadership reluctance in the cultural sector
- Artists can be public sector intrapreneurs
- Jazz music in England has a gender problem
- The challenges of guest conductor-musicians relationship in symphony orchestras
- The potential of 'performance arts' to support change management
- The consequences of focusing on charismatic leadership in the arts
- ‘Digital’ has changed organisations’ strategies as well as their technology
- The effects of performance management culture on museums
- Using mentoring to embed organisational change
- When it comes to museum innovation, size matters
- Capital projects have the potential to bankrupt arts organisations
- Community consultation puts overstretched organisations on a better footing
- Arts organisations should not blindly adopt corporate management techniques
- Strategic management will make museums more effective in achieving their goals