This research was conducted by Andrew Jackson and Richard McManus at Canterbury Christ Church University
The paper describes a project to measure the social impact of Turner Contemporary art gallery in Margate, UK during the 2015/16 financial year. The total investment by Turner Contemporary in the Lifelong Learning programme for …
This research was conducted by Priscilla Adipa at International University of Grand-Bassam, Côte d'Ivoire
This paper examined how ‘talking events’ (formal programmes such as exhibition openings and artist talks) affect people’s engagement with art. It found that talking events ‘draw people into art spaces and prolong their interactions with the …
This research was conducted by Martin Falk and Tally Katz-Gerro at the Austrian Institute of Economic Research and the University of Haifa, Israel
This paper looked at data on 350,000 people in 24 EU countries. The researchers found that household income, education, employment status and nationality made a difference to …
This research was conducted by Brian Kisida, Jay P. Greene and Daniel H. Bowen at the University of Arkansas and the University of Houston, USA.
Cultural capital comprises the set non-economic resources that are at one’s disposal through life (things like language and accent, dress sense, etc) and that …
This research was conducted by Aloys Prinz, Jan Piening and Thomas Ehrmann at the University of Muenster, Germany
What process determines the fact that the art market is dominated by a few very successful and influential galleries? The key finding of this study is that innovation and information flows are …
This research was conducted by Orian Brook at the University of Stirling, UK
A great deal of research has shown how cultural engagement is shaped by education, social class and ethnicity. However, much less attention has been given to the accessibility and appeal of cultural facilities themselves. This paper used …
This research was conducted by Dirk vom Lehn at King's College London, UK
This paper is primarily about the potential of audio-visual recording as a tool to understand the reactions that people have when encountering art in a museum. But there are useful findings that can help inform our understanding …
This research was conducted by Hasan Bakhshi and David Throsby at the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, UK and Macquarie University, Australia
This paper sets out a conceptual framework for understanding how new technologies are changing the way in which cultural organisations work. The research used this …
This research was conducted by Ciara Canning and Kirsten Holmes at the University of Surrey, UK [Now at Curtin Business School, Australia]
This paper describes a process of community engagement in Sheffield using the ‘Repertory Grid Technique’. This informed the development of ‘Burngreave Voices’: a community project run by …