Creative Economy Champion Grant Renewal

本项目续聘Andrew Chitty为AHRC创意经济冠军(CEC)，任期39个月(2020年1月至2023年3月)，以发展创意产业与艺术和人文学科内外的学术界之间更牢固、更可持续和更有影响力的关系。它建立在Chitty教授之前的工作基础上，最初的3年时间是从2017-19年(CEC1)。在第二阶段，奇蒂教授将常驻拉夫堡大学位于哈克尼的伦敦校区。它位于Here East网站的同一地点，有一群令人兴奋的创意产业、创新者和教育提供者，是合作和公众参与的理想选择。这一角色的延续得到了最初时期发生的两件大事的支持：工业战略挑战基金(ISCF)的兴起，成为研究和创新的重要新资金流；英国研究和创新委员会的成立，将包括AHRC、Innovate UK和一个新的机构Research England在内的7个研究委员会聚集在一起。ISCF的资助促成了有史以来为创意产业设计的两个最雄心勃勃的研究和创新计划的委托、开发和启动：由AHRC提供的GB 5400万创意产业集群计划(CICP)和由Innovate UK提供的未来挑战(AOTF)GB 3500万受众。这些方案极大地扩大了CEC角色的规模和范围，因为Andrew Chitty在制定每个方案方面发挥了领导作用，并于2018年(AOTF)和2019年(CICP)被任命为UKRI的挑战总监。挑战总监角色的职责要求Chitty教授与UKRI签订零碎的雇佣合同，在适当的治理框架内行使财务和管理权力，并管理一个合并团队的努力，该团队目前共有14 FTE。挑战总监和AHRC创意经济冠军角色的持续组合为协调UKRI的创意产业研究战略提供了巨大机会，并与行业机构(如创意产业议会)和政府部门(DCMS、DIT、BEIS)合作，以确保这一应用创意研究的新领域得到支持和持续。然而，复杂的治理要求、方案和赠款的不同时间尺度(CEC 2017-19年；AOTF 2018-2021年、CICP2018-2023年)以及可能的活动重叠都带来了挑战和风险。这笔赠款的目的是：-通过继续努力在创意产业和学术研究人员之间建立创新的、有影响力的和可持续的关系，在CEC最初任期的基础上再接再厉。-使CEC能够继续为该部门提供思想领导，并就当前和未来与创意产业相关的战略和投资向AHRC高级管理层和AHRC理事会提供战略建议-将CEC的工作流程集中和细化到新时期需要的具体领域，并承认以前的一些活动领域现在由CICP和AOTF方案下的现有资源维持。赠款期间的重点将特别是为尚未参与的部门发展与行业机构的伙伴关系，为英国和国际上的创造性研究制定一个概念框架，以及与政策制定者的接触和外联。由CEC2方案支持的工作流程将与CICP和AOTF的活动完全不同--以确保与两个ISCF方案的活动以及创意产业集群在2021-2023年期间领导的连续性，从而确保AHRC能够在英国创意产业倡议中保持其卓越的作用

This project renews the appointment of Andrew Chitty as AHRC Creative Economy Champion (CEC) for a 39 month period (January 2020 - March 2023) to develop stronger, more sustainable and more impactful relationships between the Creative Industries and the academic community both within and beyond the Arts and Humanities. It builds on previous work by Professor Chitty duing an initial 3-year period from 2017-19 (CEC1). During this second period, Professor Chitty will be based at Loughborough University's London campus in Hackney. Its co-location on the Here East site, with an exciting cluster of creative industries, innovators and educational providers, is ideal for partnership working and public engagement. The renewal of the role has been supported by two significant events that occurred during the initial period: the rise of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) as a significant new funding stream for Research and Innovation and the establishment of UK Research and Innovation bringing together the 7 Research Councils, including AHRC, Innovate UK and a new body Research England. ISCF funding enabled the commissioning, development and launch of the two most ambitious Research and Innovation Programmes ever devised for the Creative Industries: the £54m Creative Industries Clusters Programme (CICP) delivered by AHRC and the £35m Audience of the Future Challenge (AotF), delivered through Innovate UK. These programmes greatly expanded both the scale and scope of the CEC role as Andrew Chitty took on a leadership role in developing each programme, being appointed to the UKRI role of Challenge Director in 2018 (AotF) and 2019 (CICP). The responsibilities of the Challenge Director role have required Professor Chitty to take on a fractional employment contract with UKRI to exercise the financial and management powers within the appropriate governance framework and to manage the efforts of a combined team that now totals 14FTE.The ongoing combination of Challenge Director and AHRC Creative Economy Champion roles presents great opportunities to co-ordinate UKRI's research strategy for the Creative Industries as well as to work with industry bodies (such as the Creative Industries Council) and government departments (DCMS, DIT, BEIS) to ensure that this new field of applied creative research is supported and sustained. However, the complex governance requirements, the differing timescales of the programmes and grants (CEC 2017-19; AotF 2018-2021, CICP 2018-2023) and the potential overlap of activities present both challenges and risks. The objectives of this grant are:- To build on the success of the initial CEC tenure by continuing to work to build innovative, impactful and sustainable relationships between the Creative Industries and Academic researchers.- To enable the CEC to continue to provide thought leadership to the sector and to provide strategic advice to AHRC Senior Management and AHRC Council over current and future strategy and investments relevant to the Creative Industries - To focus and refine the CEC workstreams into specific areas of need for the new period, with an acknowledgement that some areas of previous activity are now sustained by resources available under the CICP and AotF programme. The focus for the grant period will be particularly on developing partnerships with industry bodies for as yet unengaged sectors, developing a conceptual framework for creative research both in the UK and internationally and engagement and outreach to policy makers. Workstreams supported by this CEC2 programme will be completely distinct from activities of CICP and AotF- To ensure strong cross-over and synergy with the activities of the two ISCF Programmes and the continuity in leadership of the Creative Industries Clusters across the years 2021-2023 that is required to ensure that AHRC can maintain its pre-eminent role within UKRI regarding the Creative Industries