Creative Economy Champion Grant Renewal

该项目更新了Andrew Chitty作为AHRC创意经济冠军（CEC）的任命，为期39个月（2020年1月至2023年3月），以在艺术和人文学科内外的创意产业和学术界之间建立更强大，更可持续和更有影响力的关系。它建立在奇蒂教授在2017-19 （CEC1）最初3年期间的工作基础上。在第二阶段，奇蒂教授将在拉夫堡大学位于哈克尼的伦敦校区工作。它位于Here East站点，拥有令人兴奋的创意产业集群，创新者和教育提供者，是合作伙伴工作和公众参与的理想场所。这一角色的更新得到了最初阶段发生的两个重大事件的支持：工业战略挑战基金（ISCF）作为研究与创新的重要新资金流的兴起，以及英国研究与创新的建立，将7个研究委员会聚集在一起，包括AHRC， Innovate UK和一个新的机构Research England。ISCF资助了两个最具雄心的创意产业研究和创新项目的委托、开发和启动：由AHRC提供的价值5400万英镑的创意产业集群项目（CICP）和由Innovate UK提供的价值3500万英镑的未来挑战观众项目（AotF）。这些项目极大地扩展了CEC角色的规模和范围，Andrew Chitty在每个项目的开发中发挥了领导作用，他在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签订部分雇佣合同，以在适当的治理框架内行使财务和管理权力，并管理现在总数为14FTE的联合团队的努力。挑战总监和AHRC创意经济冠军角色的持续结合为协调UKRI的创意产业研究战略以及与行业机构（如创意产业委员会）和政府部门（DCMS， DIT， BEIS）合作提供了巨大的机会，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、项目和拨款的不同时间尺度（CEC 2017-19; AotF 2018-2021, CICP 2018-2023）以及活动的潜在重叠既带来了挑战，也带来了风险。这项资助的目标是：-在CEC任期内取得成功的基础上，继续努力在创意产业和学术研究人员之间建立创新、有影响力和可持续的关系。-使中心继续为业界提供思想领导，并就当前和未来与创意产业有关的战略和投资，向香港文化中心高级管理层和香港文化中心理事会提供战略建议-将中心的工作流程集中在新时期需要的特定领域，并认识到以前活动的一些领域现在由CICP和AotF计划提供的资源来维持。资助期的重点将特别放在为尚未参与的部门发展与行业机构的伙伴关系上，为英国和国际上的创造性研究制定一个概念框架，并与政策制定者进行接触和推广。这个CEC2项目所支持的工作流程将完全不同于CICP和atf的活动，以确保与两个ISCF项目的活动有很强的交叉和协同作用，并确保AHRC在2021-2023年期间继续领导创意产业集群，这是确保AHRC在UKRI中保持其在创意产业方面的卓越作用所必需的

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