Understanding and challenging inequality in culture

创意产业行业交易将创意产业定位为英国经济的核心部分，在即将到来的英国退欧时期，这不仅对其经济角色产生重大影响，而且对社会和文化也具有重大影响。它还承认创意产业是不平等的场所，尽管有人质疑这是否主要与信息有关，即少数族裔和弱势背景的人根本不太了解在创意产业工作能为他们提供什么。了解和挑战文化中的不平等(UCIC)旨在直接解决产业战略和创意产业部门交易中提出的问题。它建立在AHRC以前资助的几个项目的基础上，以便了解当代文化不平等的动态，通过分析现有数据，解决文化劳动和参与问题，有可能揭示迄今尚未得到主要关注的领域的不平等问题。它通过五个中心研究问题，与整个创意产业的关键参与者共同制作，以及一个影响计划，通过该计划可以有意义地挑战文化中的不平等。它始终使用现有的数据，以最大限度地利用英国围绕文化的强大数据资源，既有专为学术分析设计的数据集，也有最初出于其他原因收集的数据，这些数据可以分析以回答有关文化不平等的问题。五个问题是：1.代表不足的群体的成员如何获得创意产业的工作机会？当前挑战不平等的方法有多成功？2.董事会和受托人在多大程度上反映和强化了创意产业现有的不平等？3.文化不平等的快照是否掩盖了参与程度的同比变化，无论是在形式上还是在形式上？4.将文化参与理解为一个网络，如何帮助我们理解文化不平等？5.英国创意产业的不平等动态与一个著名的国际比较机构的相似程度如何？选择这些问题是为了在创意产业的不同部门工作：RQ1涉及到创意产业工作机会的分析，历史上主要是用定性的方法来回答；RQ2涉及对创意产业最高层组织的系统分析，甚至高于劳动力层面；RQ3涉及分析文化参与的变化，而不仅仅是差异，以了解文化参与中不平等的持久性和波动性；RQ4涉及组织层面而不是个人层面的参与分析，RQ5将英国文化中的不平等置于国际背景下。通过回答这些问题，创意产业的不平等问题将在不同的层面上被提出，以便全面解决创意产业交易中提出的问题并采取行动。UCIC将与创意产业的两个关键组织合作回答这些问题，这两个组织处于有效挑战该行业的地位，并与内部组织合作做出改变。

The Creative Industries Sector Deal positions the Creative Industries as a central part of the UK economy in the imminent post-Brexit period, with major implications for its role not simply economically, but also socially and culturally. It also recognises that the Creative Industries are sites of inequality, although questions are raised about whether this is primarily to do with messaging, in which people from minority and disadvantaged backgrounds simply don't know enough about what working in the Creative Industries can offer them.Understanding and Challenging Inequality in Culture (UCIC) aims to directly address issues raised in the Industrial Strategy and in the Creative Industries Sector Deal. It builds on several previous AHRC-funded projects in order to understand the contemporary dynamics of inequality in culture, addressing both cultural labour and participation, through the analysis of existing data with the potential to shed light on inequalities in areas that have not had a major focus so far. It does so through five central research questions, coproduction with key actors in the Creative Industries throughout, and a plan for impact through which inequalities in culture can be meaningfully challenged. It uses existing data throughout, in order to make the most of the UK's strong data resources around culture, both datasets designed for academic analysis, and data originally collected for other reasons which can be analysed to answer questions about inequality in culture.The five questions are:1. How can members of underrepresented groups access work in the creative industries? How successful are current approaches to challenging inequalities?2. How far do boards of directors, and of trustees, reflect and reinforce existing inequalities in the creative industries?3. Do snapshots of inequality in culture conceal high levels of year-on-year change in participation, both within and across forms? 4. How does understanding cultural participation as a network inform our understanding of inequality in culture?5. How similar are the dynamics of inequality in the creative industries in the UK to those of a salient international comparator?These questions have been chosen in order to work across different parts of the Creative Industries: RQ1 involves analysis of access to work in the Creative Industries, which have historically mainly been answered using qualitative methods; RQ2 involves systematic analysis of the most senior levels of organisations in the Creative Industries, above even workforce level; RQ3 involves the analysis of changes in cultural participation, rather than merely differences, to understand the persistence and volatility of inequality in cultural participation; RQ4 involves the analysis of participation at the organisational rather than individual level, and RQ5 puts inequality in culture in the UK into an international context. Through answering these questions, issues of inequality will be raised at different levels across the Creative Industries, in order that the questions raised in the Creative Industries Sector Deal can be comprehensively addressed and action taken.UCIC will answer these questions in collaboration with two key organisations in the Creative Industries, who are positioned to effectively challenge the sector and work alongside organisations within to make changes.