This research was conducted by Andrew Newman, Anna Goulding and Christopher Whitehead at Newcastle University, UK
This study set out to explore the factors that influence older people's engagement – or indeed lack of engagement – with contemporary visual art. Specific factors addressed in the paper are social class, education, …
This research was conducted by Samuel Byrd at Hunter College, City University of New York, USA.
In interviews with immigrant musicians at concerts and festivals, the author found that music making becomes political through both social and physical processes. It creates opportunities to understand, assess, and debate the political …
This research was conducted by Diane Crone and five other people at the University of Gloucestershire and elsewhere, UK
This study involved patients suffering from a variety of conditions, including anxiety, stress, depression, chronic pain, illness or bereavement. The patients were referred by a health professional to a 10-week art …
This research was conducted by Sandra D. Sjollema and Jill Hanley at McGill University, Canada.
This paper sought to investigate the impact of poetry for community development. The study found that poetry groups are used as a tool for community development in community settings, generating numerous benefits for both disadvantaged …
This research was conducted by Adam Behr, Matt Brennan and Martin Cloonan at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Glasgow, UK
This paper examined how various people (particularly concert-goers) articulate the value of live music. The paper looked specifically at six concerts across a range of genres at …
This research was conducted by Helen Bussell and Debora Forbes at the University of Teesside, UK
This paper describes best practice in volunteer management, focusing on a regional producing theatre in the UK. It looks at all aspects of the volunteering process – from recruitment and management through to retention. …
This research was conducted by Dahyun Lee at Ohio State University, USA
This paper describes what happened in Columbus Ohio during the Guernica Peace Mural Programme in July 2010. The GPMP brought together 18 US graduate students and approximately 20 Somali children over five days to create a piece of …
This research was conducted by Anwar Tlili at King's College London, UK
This paper looked at the way in which museums have adopted new forms of performance management, partially in response to the changing beliefs of policymakers and funders. The core of the research is based on a series of …
This research was conducted by Jonathan Paquette at the University of Ottawa, Canada
This paper looks at how mentoring affected organisational change and renewal in a number of large museums in the UK. The research found that mentors frequently supported their protégés in their agendas for change, even though mentoring …
This research was conducted by Terry O'Sullivan at the Open University, UK
This paper reports the findings of eight in-depth telephone interviews designed to discover the various ways that people use web forums to discuss orchestral music. The research found that people behave in a variety of different ways online …