Understanding Everyday Participation - Articulating Cultural Values
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Manchester
Department Name: Social Sciences
Abstract
This project proposes a radical re-evaluation of the relationship between participation and cultural value. Bringing together evidence from in-depth historical analyses, the re-use of existing quantitative data and new qualitative research on the detail, dynamics and significance of 'everyday participation', it will create new understandings of community formation, connectivity and capacity through participation. Orthodox models of the creative economy and ensuing cultural policy are based on a narrow definition of cultural participation; one that captures formal engagement with traditional cultural institutions, such as museums and galleries, but overlooks other activities, for instance community festivals and hobbies. This frame, founded historically on deficit based assumptions of the logics for state cultural support, misses opportunities to understand the variety of forms of participation and their (positive and negative) consequences. We argue that by creating new understandings of the relationships between everyday participation, community and cultural value, we will reveal evidence of hidden assets and resources that can be mobilised to promote better identification and more equitable resourcing of cultural opportunities, generate well-being and contribute to the development of creative local economies.
The central research questions are:
- How, historically, did we arrive at the definitions, fields of knowledge and policy frames informing notions of cultural participation and value today?
- What are the forms and practices of everyday participation - where do they take place? How are they valued? And how do these practices relate to formal participation?
- How is participation shaped by space, place and locality?
- How are communities made, unmade, divided and connected through participation?
- How can broader understandings of value in and through participation be used to inform the development of vibrant communities and creative local economies?
- How do we reconnect cultural policy and institutions with everyday participation?
Using a variety of methodologies, including historical analysis, qualitative work with communities of practice and use, and the reanalysis of existing data on participation and time-use, this project focuses on six contrasting 'cultural ecosystems' to investigate the connections between multiple understandings of community (geographical, elective, identity based etc), cultural value, 'cultural economy' and everyday participation. The findings from the situated case studies will inform four partnership-operated trials of new policy interventions or of professional or community practices. Throughout the project research will be integrated with key partners, stakeholder cultural and community organisations in order to evolve better, shared understandings of everyday cultural participation and the implications of this for policy makers and cultural organisations at national, local and community levels.
The central research questions are:
- How, historically, did we arrive at the definitions, fields of knowledge and policy frames informing notions of cultural participation and value today?
- What are the forms and practices of everyday participation - where do they take place? How are they valued? And how do these practices relate to formal participation?
- How is participation shaped by space, place and locality?
- How are communities made, unmade, divided and connected through participation?
- How can broader understandings of value in and through participation be used to inform the development of vibrant communities and creative local economies?
- How do we reconnect cultural policy and institutions with everyday participation?
Using a variety of methodologies, including historical analysis, qualitative work with communities of practice and use, and the reanalysis of existing data on participation and time-use, this project focuses on six contrasting 'cultural ecosystems' to investigate the connections between multiple understandings of community (geographical, elective, identity based etc), cultural value, 'cultural economy' and everyday participation. The findings from the situated case studies will inform four partnership-operated trials of new policy interventions or of professional or community practices. Throughout the project research will be integrated with key partners, stakeholder cultural and community organisations in order to evolve better, shared understandings of everyday cultural participation and the implications of this for policy makers and cultural organisations at national, local and community levels.
Planned Impact
1. Public benefit
The project will benefit the public as a whole and communities in the ecosystems where the case studies will be carried out. The research will give voice to people and practices that typically fall outside the scope of 'official' cultural models. It will recognise and legitimate the meaning and stakes that attach to ordinary, everyday participation and may reveal the existence of rich cultural lives among people who are often marked out as passive or excluded. Thus the project seeks to develop notions of culture that are more democratic and inclusive and that in turn lead to policies and organisational practices that are responsive to the needs and concerns of communities. By applying an arts and humanities approach to questions of value, the project creates the potential for new articulations and measures of value that more fully reflect how people live today and what is important to them.
In the case study locations, community and neighbourhood groups will have the opportunity to reflect on and revalue their participation practices through participatory practice-based research and to build their own capacity through collaborating on the design, delivery and evaluation of application projects. The experience of these groups will pave the way for the development of new approaches to devolving decision-making powers and responsibility for cultural provision to communities across the country.
2. Transforming national policy
The project will have major benefits for agencies working to develop national policy in relation to culture, participation and the creative economy including central government, Non-Departmental Public Bodies, funders and membership organisations such as the Museums Association. The project represents a shift in focus from the 'supply' of cultural facilities to the 'demand' for cultural experiences and an opportunity to reverse the current, primarily 'top-down' approach to cultural policy. It will generate new understandings of how cultural policy can be developed 'from the bottom up', based on in-depth knowledge of what people value about their own participation. In this way the research opens up the possibility of radical change in the nature of UK cultural policy over the next 5-10 years. National policy makers will also benefit from the project's holistic view of cultural ecosystems, which will help illuminate the specific contributions of and relationships between a diversity of participation practices - everyday, community-based, voluntary, professional and institutional. This all-encompassing lens will enable more richly informed decision-making about when to intervene and how best to target resources to maximise return on investment.
3.Informing local practice
The research will benefit organisations working at local level to promote the vibrancy of communities through cultural participation, including local authorities, local enterprise partnerships, regeneration and economic development agencies, cultural institutions and voluntary groups. By producing detailed knowledge of how local people participate in their everyday lives and what this participation means to them, the project will help organisations to better understand and articulate their purpose and role and stimulate new ideas and ways of working with communities to encourage and enrich participation. The research will reveal resources that local agencies can mobilise to build capacity within and connectivity between communities and to enhance initiatives focused on community wellbeing and the development of local economies. For example, local stakeholders in Peterborough hope the project will help them to understand and activate the 'seeds of a creative ecology' in the town and Manchester City Council hopes to better understand how to promote and connect communities to their services across local authority and neighbourhood boundaries.
The project will benefit the public as a whole and communities in the ecosystems where the case studies will be carried out. The research will give voice to people and practices that typically fall outside the scope of 'official' cultural models. It will recognise and legitimate the meaning and stakes that attach to ordinary, everyday participation and may reveal the existence of rich cultural lives among people who are often marked out as passive or excluded. Thus the project seeks to develop notions of culture that are more democratic and inclusive and that in turn lead to policies and organisational practices that are responsive to the needs and concerns of communities. By applying an arts and humanities approach to questions of value, the project creates the potential for new articulations and measures of value that more fully reflect how people live today and what is important to them.
In the case study locations, community and neighbourhood groups will have the opportunity to reflect on and revalue their participation practices through participatory practice-based research and to build their own capacity through collaborating on the design, delivery and evaluation of application projects. The experience of these groups will pave the way for the development of new approaches to devolving decision-making powers and responsibility for cultural provision to communities across the country.
2. Transforming national policy
The project will have major benefits for agencies working to develop national policy in relation to culture, participation and the creative economy including central government, Non-Departmental Public Bodies, funders and membership organisations such as the Museums Association. The project represents a shift in focus from the 'supply' of cultural facilities to the 'demand' for cultural experiences and an opportunity to reverse the current, primarily 'top-down' approach to cultural policy. It will generate new understandings of how cultural policy can be developed 'from the bottom up', based on in-depth knowledge of what people value about their own participation. In this way the research opens up the possibility of radical change in the nature of UK cultural policy over the next 5-10 years. National policy makers will also benefit from the project's holistic view of cultural ecosystems, which will help illuminate the specific contributions of and relationships between a diversity of participation practices - everyday, community-based, voluntary, professional and institutional. This all-encompassing lens will enable more richly informed decision-making about when to intervene and how best to target resources to maximise return on investment.
3.Informing local practice
The research will benefit organisations working at local level to promote the vibrancy of communities through cultural participation, including local authorities, local enterprise partnerships, regeneration and economic development agencies, cultural institutions and voluntary groups. By producing detailed knowledge of how local people participate in their everyday lives and what this participation means to them, the project will help organisations to better understand and articulate their purpose and role and stimulate new ideas and ways of working with communities to encourage and enrich participation. The research will reveal resources that local agencies can mobilise to build capacity within and connectivity between communities and to enhance initiatives focused on community wellbeing and the development of local economies. For example, local stakeholders in Peterborough hope the project will help them to understand and activate the 'seeds of a creative ecology' in the town and Manchester City Council hopes to better understand how to promote and connect communities to their services across local authority and neighbourhood boundaries.
Organisations
- University of Manchester (Lead Research Organisation)
- University of Copenhagen (Collaboration)
- Glasgow Life (Collaboration)
- Paul Hamlyn Foundation (Project Partner)
- Manchester City Council (Project Partner)
- Local Government Improvement and Development (Project Partner)
- Clore Duffield Foundation (Project Partner)
- Vivacity (Project Partner)
- Club & Institute Union (Project Partner)
- Creative Scotland (Project Partner)
- Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service (Project Partner)
- Sustrans (Project Partner)
- Voluntary Arts Network (Project Partner)
- National Council for Voluntary Organisations (Project Partner)
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (Project Partner)
- Museums Association (Project Partner)
- Arts Council England (Project Partner)
- Sport England (Project Partner)
- Historic Bldgs & Mnts Commis for England (Project Partner)
Publications
Abigail Gilmore
(2017)
The Value of Public Parkes and their Communities
Belfiore E
(2019)
Histories of Cultural Participation, Values and Governance
Belfiore E
(2019)
Histories of Cultural Participation, Values and Governance
Belfiore E
(2016)
Cultural policy research in the real world: curating "impact", facilitating "enlightenment"
in Cultural Trends
Belfiore, E.
(2015)
Insights and Tools for Managing Arts Projects with Societal Impact
Belfiore, E.
(2015)
Policy discourse, cultural value and the "buzzwords of participation"
Belfiore, E.
(2019)
Histories of Cultural Participation, Values and Governance
Belfiore, E.
(2012)
Cultural value, engagement and the University - beyond critique?
Belfiore, E.
(2012)
Cultural value, engagement and the University - beyond critique?
Belfiore, E.
(2015)
Policy discourse, cultural value and the "buzzwords of participation"
Belfiore, E.
(2015)
Beyond Instrumental value: the challenge of "making the case" for the arts
Belfiore, E.
(2015)
Cultural participation and arts funding
Belfiore, E.
(2015)
Some thoughts on the "problem" of non-participation in the arts
Brook Orian
(2020)
Culture is Bad for You: Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries
Bunting C
(2019)
Histories of Cultural Participation, Values and Governance
Bunting, C.
(2015)
'Calling participation to account: a recent history of cultural indicators'
Delrieu V
(2017)
Libraries and the geography of use: how does geography and asset "attractiveness" influence the local dimensions of cultural participation?
in Cultural Trends
Ebrey J
(2014)
Working at the weekend: supermarket and shopping centre workers in Salford/Manchester (UK) and Porto (Portugal)
in Leisure Studies
Ebrey, J.
(2014)
UEP in Culter: Ethnography
Ebrey, J.
(2013)
The Weekend: Labour or Leisure
Ebrey, J.
(2014)
UEP in Culter: Ethnography
Ebrey, J.
(2014)
Counting Crows in Aberdeen/shire
Ebrey, J.
(2012)
Neighbourhood Cafes: Convivialities and Mobilities
Ebrey, J.
(2012)
It's the Weekend!
Ebrey, J.
(2012)
Half Holiday Excursions and Cycling Clubs
Ebrey, J.
(2012)
Neighbourhood Cafes: Convivialities and Mobilities
Ebrey, J.
(2012)
It's the Weekend!
Ebrey, J.
(2013)
The Weekend: Labour or Leisure
Ebrey, J.
(2013)
Crisis, Social Time and the Weekend
Ebrey, J.
(2013)
Crisis, Social Time and the Weekend
Edwards D
(2017)
Counting the pennies: the cultural economy of charity shopping
in Cultural Trends
Edwards, D.
(2014)
Counting the Pennies: Framing Everyday Participation in a Charity Shop
Edwards, D.
(2015)
Understanding Everyday Participation- Articulating Cultural Values
Enquiring Into Wellbeing: Reflections On Method, Culture And Inner Truths, University Of Bath
(2013)
'Measuring National Well-being: What Matters to you? (what matters to who?)'
Friedman S
(2015)
Cultural sociology and new forms of distinction
in Poetics
Gibson L
(2019)
Histories of Cultural Participation, Values and Governance
Gibson, L.
(2015)
Governing Place Through Culture
Gibson, L.
(2015)
Accounting for Cultural Value and Everyday Activities
Gibson, L.
(2015)
Understanding Everyday Participation- The Gateshead ecosystem
Gibson, L.
(2015)
Understanding Facilitated Participation and Cultural Values
Gibson, L.
(2015)
Accounting for Cultural Value and Everyday Activities
| Description | Some headline findings (data analysis continues): There is no such thing as a cultural 'non-user'. Participation in the everyday cultural realm is prolific, often committed, and skilled. Most participation is not about the individual 'sovereign consumer' but is rooted in tradition, habit, and community, family, friendships Few people participate nationally. The meanings and relations of cultural participation are embedded in physical spaces over time It is the social and civic impacts of everyday cultural activities that are most salient - for sustaining social networks, and for defining the parameters of community The 'creative city' is a site of particular historical contention and exclusion. Attention to the everyday cultural realm beyond it reveals the existence of alternative, residual, models of cultural value and economy |
| Exploitation Route | To optimise the benefits which participation in cultural activities and sport bring it must be recognised by policymakers that participatory activities outside formal structures or direct government funding carry significant value. Specifically, that the value of everyday cultural practices for civic engagement, community identity and resilience, health and well-being, and the personal social development of disadvantaged young people should be recognised. Action should be taken by national and local government to address the continuing structural and spatial inequalities in public cultural investment, organised around socio-economic class and ethnicity, and resulting from the metropolitan focus and narrow conception of the arts and culture in policy. The required redirection of investment prioritises the maintenance and renewal of local cultural infrastructures and informal social spaces, and the networks of voluntary activity that underpin them. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Description | Findings have significantly impacted strategic thinking at the national level (DCMS, Arts Council England, Scottish Government) on the need to broaden the concept of cultural participation and recognise the (cultural, social and civic) value that attaches to everyday and vernacular cultural practices. This can be seen, for example, in the way the notion of 'everyday participation' and the debate around 'everyday creativity' has been picked by the cultural sector, in the AHRC's own 'Cultural Value' project, the Arts Council's thinking on 'Cultural Democracy' and in the new Scottish Cultural Strategy. Examples of impact at local and regional level include how the UEP project has worked with Gateshead Borough Council and organisations like Blue Cabin on the cultural participation of young people in care and with local community institutions, Aberdeen City Council and Creative Scotland to challenge the neoliberal focus on the 'creative city' in policy and to develop understandings of how cultural policy can be made more democratically from the ground up. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2018 |
| Sector | Creative Economy,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Policy & public services |
| Description | Arts Council England - Next Ten Year Strategy - Call for Evidence |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Description | Communities and Local Government Committee inquiry into public parks |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Gave comments at Culture Media and Sport Select Committee on Countries of Culture Inquiry |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Membership of the Academic Roundtable advising on the development of the Scottish Cultural Strategy |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://consult.gov.scot/culture-tourism-and-major-events/culture-strategy/ |
| Description | Written evidence submitted to the House of Lords Select Committee on Citizenship and Civic Engagement |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Written evidence to Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee Inquiry into the social impact of participation in culture and sport |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Written response to consultation on A Culture Strategy for Scotland |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Written submission to Citizenship and Civic Engagement Committee Prof Andrew Miles with Dr J Ebrey and R Webber |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Written submission to Department for Communities and Local Government Running free: consultation on preserving the free use of public parks A Miles and A Gilmore |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | AHRC Connected Communities |
| Amount | £4,064 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2014 |
| End | 10/2014 |
| Description | AHRC Festival 2016 |
| Amount | £5,006 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2016 |
| End | 10/2016 |
| Description | Data, Diversity and Inequality in the Creative Industries |
| Amount | £244,616 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/R013322/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2018 |
| End | 08/2018 |
| Description | ESRC IAA funding: Research into practice: The challenges and opportunities faced by urban-rural transitional 'edge' communities - |
| Amount | £35,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2016 |
| End | 02/2019 |
| Description | Public Engagement Programme |
| Amount | £174,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | CS-1403-12892/GB10770 |
| Organisation | Creative Scotland |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2012 |
| End | 03/2017 |
| Description | Understanding and challenging inequality in culture |
| Amount | £195,267 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/S004483/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2019 |
| End | 01/2021 |
| Description | 'The Peoples' Internet: A global perspective on the internet' (PIN) |
| Organisation | University of Copenhagen |
| Country | Denmark |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Perspectives on internet use from the UK including the use of survey and big data involving Leguina. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Danish partners lead and co-ordinate a comparative network looking at the current state and future potential of the internet in three centers of the global economy and world politics - China, Europe, and the United States - focusing on the interplay of civil society with the other two key sectors of modern societies: market and state. |
| Impact | Invited talk: 'Getting Things Done: Inequalities, Internet Use and Everyday Life' (Adrian Leguina and John Downey, Lboro U.). PIN project closing conference (12-13 dec 2019). |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Understanding Everyday Participation in Glasgow |
| Organisation | Glasgow Life |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Supervisor of Collaborative Doctoral Award studentship |
| Collaborator Contribution | Supervisor of Collaborative Doctoral Award studentship |
| Impact | None yet |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | A. Gilmore - WEP methods conference presentation: Talking, Walking & Making: Participatory engagement methods and the co-production of knowledge in Cheetham Park, North Manchester |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Methods discussion for research in sociology; arts management; museum and heritage studies |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | A. Gilmore conference panel - "I think the boxes will have to get larger" : equity and policy in measuring quality and articulating values |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Conference panel presenter for Creative People and Places event; cultural sector and academic audience discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012,2016 |
| Description | A. Leguina Advisor on cultural engagement, inequalities and quantitative research methods to Centre for Empirical Cultural Studies of South-East Europe |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Advisor on cultural engagement, inequalities and quantitative research methods to Dr Predrag Cveticanin, Centre for Empirical Cultural Studies of South-East Europe, Belgrade, Serbia (CECS) (Belgrade, Serbia) across several projects. Capacity building. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | A. Leguina appointed methodological advisor EU Horizon 2020 project 'Closing the gap between formal and informal institutions in the Balkans'. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Teaching Multivariate Statistics using SPAD capacity building |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | A.Gilmore conference panel presenter - 'The Park, the Museum and the Commons: vernacular spaces and social infrastructure for everyday participation' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | academic and practitioner discussion; museum and heritage studies |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | BSA Roundtable: Everyday participation, community assets and public spaces: methods and practices for locating cultural value |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Understanding Everyday Participation project challenges traditional boundaries of 'culture' and exposes their role in the making of inequalities. Issues of space, place and scale are fundamental to this account. In this roundtable we reflect on the methods and contexts through which we have approached cultural participation as a situated process. Research and policy discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | CHIEF (Cultural Heritage and Identities of Europe's Future) H2020 project Qualitative and Quantitative Research Groups Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Keynote speaker at the CHIEF (Cultural Heritage and Identities of Europe's Future) H2020 project Qualitative and Quantitative Research Groups Meeting. Tittle of the paper: Researching 'Everyday' Participation: Issues and Methods |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Conference paper: "Enclosing the Commons? The Politics of Parks as Heritage Spaces". |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Conference paper by Abigail Gilmore presented to the Association of Critical Heritage Studies, August 2020 - ACHS2020 Abigail Gilmore, University of Manchester. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Conference presentation - 'Placemaking and everyday participation' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk on the significance for unrecognised cultural practices in shaping place identities delivered by Gilmore to 'Mapping the Midlands' conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.midlandshecf.org/events/conference-2019-mapping-the-midlands |
| Description | Conference presentation - 'Re-performance: a methodological approach to understanding cultures of expertise in policy-making' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | International conference paper delivered by Oman. Engaged with academics and policymakers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Cultures of Participation conference. Keynote |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Keynote: 'Museums and Participation (Who goesand who doesn't?)', Lisanne Gibson Cultures of Participation conference, Aarhus University, Denmark, April 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | European Sociological Association conference presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by Ebrey of a paper on urban imaginaries: 'On the edge in Aberdeen, Manchester and Swansea What place do the peripheral and peri-urban have in the imaginaries of our city and why does it matter?' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | European Sociological Association, RN5 (Sociology of Consumption) Meeting, Copenhagen |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Andrew Miles and Adrian Leguina delivered the paper: 'Cultural Capital and Social Mobility in the UK: A Life Course Perspective', European Sociological Association, RN5 (Sociology of Consumption) Meeting, Copenhagen, 29 Aug 2018 to 1 Sept. 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Everyday participation community assets and public spaces round table |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Round table discussion event exploring innovative partnerships between universities and civil society organisations engaged in co-creating, re-inventing and improving life in the city and its surroundings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Everyday participation community assets and public spaces: methods and practices for locating cultural value podcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | podcast available on two websites |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.everydayparticipation.org/co-creating-cities-and-communities/ |
| Description | Focus group event (University of Exeter) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | - Focus group event (July 4) at the University of Exeter (in the Drama Department) with Gary Powell Community Projects Officer, Business Improvement & Development, Teignbridge District Council, Camilla Rooney from Moretonhampstead Development Trust http://www.moretonhampsteadtrust.org.uk/ and Wellmore https://www.wellmoor.org.uk/ and Pam Barrett, former Mayor of Buckfastleigh Town Council and advocate of local arts/cultural development. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Geographical inequalities in Britain invited presentation to MPs in Parliament A Miles |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | invited presentation to MPs regarding UEP research outputs relevant to Geographical inequalities in Britain impact through increased understanding and discusion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | How can we safeguard public parks? A Gilmore and A Miles |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | participants shared research evidence and good practice guidance to support joint work between cultural institutions, parks and outdoor spaces and their communities of interest; interactive discussion took place concerning the recommendations of the CLG Select Committee on the Future of Public Parks and of parks strategies in Greater Manchester;an exploration of sustainable models for future joint-working and community engagement in parks and co-produced document is on going |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | International Conference for Cultural Policy Research 2018: Understanding Everyday Participation panel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The presentations in this panel present some of the findings of Understanding Everyday Participation - Articulating Cultural Values (UEP), a five-year large grant project, which began in 2012 and is part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Connected Communities programme, receiving supplementary funding from Creative Scotland. The project starts from the proposition that the orientation of cultural policy and state-funded cultural programming towards cultural participation and value is in need of a radical overhaul. We argue that there is an orthodoxy of approach to cultural engagement which is based on a narrow definition (and understanding) of participation, one that focuses on a limited set of cultural forms, activities and associated cultural institutions but which, in the process, obscures the significance of other forms of cultural participation which are situated locally in the everyday realm. Drawing together a large interdisciplinary team of researchers, which meshes interests across the humanities, social sciences and the policy sector, UEP's research seeks to identify and apprehend everyday cultural participation and the values people attach to this, especially in relation to the social sphere. Our aim in doing this is to reorientate the focus of both academic and policy work on 'cultural value' and thereby to cast fresh light on the nature and significance of cultural preferences and activities in the twenty-first century. Our findings across the methods used in our research are consistent, they reveal (1) the rich variety of cultural participation activities, the vast majority of which lie beyond the orbit of State cultural support, and (2) the importance of these everyday forms of participation for developing social capital and sustaining social networks, and for defining the parameters of 'community' (Miles and Gibson, 2016; Miles and Gibson, 2017). Paper Titles: 'Beyond Cultural Policy', Andrew Miles, University of Manchester 'Governing Place through Culture', Lisanne Gibson, University of Leicester 'Understanding participation (and non-participation) in public spaces: parks and museums as contact zones', Abigail Gilmore, University of Manchester |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Invited keynote to international cultural policy conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Keynote lecture by Miles entitled 'Everyday participation, culture and democracy' delivered to a three day conference 'The Age of Cultural Participation: Democratic Roles and Consequences' organised by the Kultura Nova foundation in Zagreb. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.encatc.org/en/events/detail/the-age-of-cultural-participation-democratic-roles-and-conse... |
| Description | Invited speaker - Department for Culture media and Sport - Mark Taylor |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The main theme of the event was data accessibility and Taking Part analysis tools |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | L,Gibson & M. Taylor 'Habitus and Value: the 'situatedness' of participation and its value' - British Sociological Association Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | academic debate and networking |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | L. Gibson & D. Edwards 'Understanding Everyday Participation- Articulating Cultural Values' Care Experienced Young People and Participation Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Part of Connected Communities Festival |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | L. Gibson & D. Edwards 'Understanding Facilitated Participation and Cultural Values' - Museum Studies Distance Learning Summer School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | academic capacity building and debate |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | L. Gibson Countries of Culture Inquiry by the Select Committee for Culture, Media and Sport expert wittnes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Communicated Research results to Countries of Culture Inquiry by the Select Committee for Culture, Media and Sport expert wittnes |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | L.Gibson & E. Belfiore 'Governing Place Through Culture' Histories of Cultural Participation, Value and Governance Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Arts and humanities and cultural policy; culture and heritage sector Knowledge exchange debate |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | L.Gibson 'Facilitated Participation and Everyday Participation: Enabling the Agency of young people in care' The Museum in the Global Contemporary Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on academic findings and real world implications |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | L.Gibson Facilitated Participation: Cultural value, risk and the agency of young people in care ICCPR International Conference oin Cultural Policy Research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | academic networking, debate and capacity building |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | L.Gibson Understanding Everyday Participation- The Gateshead ecosystem - Useful Knowledge Workshop- Heritage, Arts and Visitor Research Collaborative |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Key note at event reaching practitioners. Exploration of research results and practice implications |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | L.Gibson Understanding Facilitated Participation and Cultural Values - Connected Communities Soundings and Findings Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Joint paper; discussion of findings with practitioners; academic debate |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | LeisureStudies Association Conference. Mobilising Change: Creative and Critical Leisure Practices in the Post-disciplinary Era |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Keynote speaker at the LeisureStudies Association Conference. Mobilising Change: Creative and Critical Leisure Practices in the Post-disciplinary Era. Title of the paper: Everyday participation and the shifting boundaries of culture, leisure and class |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Loughborough University Sociology Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Andrew Miles delivered the paper "Everyday Participation and the Shifting Boundaries of Culture, Class and Politics in the UK'. Loughborough University Sociology Seminar, December 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Manchester Community Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Component of written literature disseminating project information to a general public audience at a Manchester wide community festival |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | National cultural policy, rebalancing participation? Abigail Gilmore |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Increased dialogue on whether arts and cultural policy can become more culturally democratic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | One-day seminar - 'Cultural and Digital Inequalities: Opportunities, Barriers and Challenges' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Loughborugh University Institute for Advanced Studies open programme seminar organised by Leguina |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Panel presentation by mark Taylor at international conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Academic dialogue, capacity building and network building |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Parks as Commons |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Article on cultural commons in action on Voluntary Arts website, also received much attention on Twitter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Podcast interview Tales of Ordinary Times, Our Stories |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Podcast interview with Abigail Gilmore in Tales of Ordinary Times, Our Stories - THE PUBLIC PARK 6: THE PARK TODAY - https://www.ourstories.co/toot |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ourstories.co/toot |
| Description | Policy round-table: The Country and the City: Devising everyday cultural policies for communities on the edge Creative Scotland, Edinburgh, May 2017 A Miles & J Ebrey |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Closed door discussion feeding into policy development and considerations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation to European Sociological Association Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by Leguina and Miles entitled 'Lifestyles, politics and class divisions in the UK and continental Europe' mobilising Eurostat data to illuminate the overall conference theme 'Europe and Beyond: Boundaries, Barriers and Belonging'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation to a conference on Inclusive Growth in cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Miles and Ebrey presented policy impact-related research on 'Everyday cultural participation - why ordinary culture should be a pillar of inclusive growth'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Research Seminar - invited speaker - Abigail Gilmore - Understanding Everyday Participation in Manchester-Salford |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Increased understanding of subject area |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Research cited in The Observer Magazine. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Research by Abigail Gilmore cited in Rachel Shabi (2020) Our Urban Eden, Observer magazine, 9 August 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Symposium presentation - 'Evidence for valuing culture - social and political lives of methods' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Contribution by Gilmore to Arts Council England/Manchester City Council 'Measuring and Increasing the Value of Culture: A national symposium considering how best to assess the contribution of culture to social wellbeing and neighbourhood vitality'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | The Governance of Cultural Flows: The Past and the Future, 10th international Conference on Cultural Policy Research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Andrew Miles delivered the paper 'Beyond Cultural Policy,' The Governance of Cultural Flows: The Past and the Future, 10th international Conference on Cultural Policy Research, Tallin, August 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | The Space to Thrive: Public parks and everyday participation - Abigail Gilmore |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dialogue around recent select committee inquiry into the future of public parks highlighted |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | The future of parks in the city and beyond news broadcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Local television broadcast about the saving public parks event, related issues and the role of the project in this including interview by academic A. Gilmore. broadcast repeatedly for two days. available on Tv station web site and project website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.everydayparticipation.org/how-can-we-safeguard-public-parks/ |
| Description | UEP Hebrides website and blogs |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Website with on going blog reporting on UEP research and experience engaging with the non academic stakeholders involved. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
| URL | https://uephebrides.wordpress.com/author/uephebrides/ |
| Description | UEP PhD student Susan Oman has discusses student well-being in article |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | THES article grounded by UEP PhD student |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/blogs/student-experience-survey-2017-investigating-well... |
| Description | UEP panel at BSA 2017 conference: sociology of cultural consumption |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UEP panel at BSA 2017 conference: sociology of cultural consumption three papers A Miles; J Ebrey; A Gilmore A Leguina much discussion with academic audience and on twitter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | UNDERSTANDING EVERYDAY PARTICIPATION: Re-locating Culture, Value and Inequality |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Organising conference UNDERSTANDING EVERYDAY PARTICIPATION: Re-locating Culture, Value and Inequality |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | UNDERSTANDING EVERYDAY PARTICIPATION: Re-locating Culture, Value and Inequality Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Adrian Leguina and Andrew Miles delivered the paper 'Socio-Spatial Mobilities and Narratives of Participation,', UNDERSTANDING EVERYDAY PARTICIPATION: Re-locating Culture, Value and Inequality Conference, Manchester June 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Understanding Everyday Participation Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Understanding Everyday Participation Conference, University of Manchester, June 2018 'The field of everyday participation and cultural value: the difference that time and place make', Andrew Miles, Lisanne Gibson, Varina Delrieu, and Ruth Wilson |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Week long research residential meeting on the Future of Cultural Institutions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Faber residential involving Gilmore provided a thematic space for work and change between cultural sector professionals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://faberllull.cat/en/residences/resicencies-19-20/cultural-institutions/ |