Performing Leadership Differently: Co-Creating Collective Strategies for Change

该项目将重点关注核心研究问题：艺术，社会科学研究人员和创意社区如何在COVID-19后在戏剧和表演中为BAME和工人阶级社区共同创造参与式领导和参与模式？作为研究的一部分，我们将试点和测试新的领导模式，将其与戏剧和表演社区联系起来。我们使用的方法最适合参与式行动方法，允许不同利益相关者最大程度地参与。这将使我们能够创新，共同创造和分享能够应对危机的最佳做法，并使政策制定者能够听取该部门的不同成员的意见。通过共同创造，我们指的是主题和合作伙伴的参与，进一步阐明本研究的中心问题。与以往的艺术多样性倡议不同，该项目在研究的每个阶段都嵌入了那些被系统地排除在艺术领导之外的人，利用他们的专业知识来建立相关和有效的调查策略。在整个项目中，研究方法将根据参与者的反馈进行调整，以最大限度地发挥影响力，认识到消除歧视和边缘化的实用专业知识在于参与，与那些直接受到机构排斥的人建立联系，并扩大他们的声音。将通过合作伙伴Something To Aim For（STAF）与艺术家，组织和观众倡议进行互动，以促进这一点。STAF是一个由惠康信托基金资助的行业支持组织，旨在增加艺术的多元化参与，并支持集中边缘声音。STAF的网络包括超过50万个人和73个艺术组织，从Wellcome Collection和The Barbican到中小型企业，包括Raze Collective，HighRise Theatre和Migrants in Culture。与艺术家和参与者的直接接触将主要在网上进行，利用数字网络战略将日益分散和孤立的艺术家和网络联系起来。研讨会和其他团体活动将通过“我们在制造”来促进，这是一个新的数字中心，旨在创建和维持那些已经被取消平台，安全在线的社区，以应对新冠肺炎。中心的功能允许视频会议、小组互动和参与、远程托管和介绍材料以及异步访问文件和文件。

The project will focus on central research question: How can arts, social science researchers and creative communities co-create models of participatory leadership and engagement for BAME and working-class communities within theatre and performance after COVID-19? As part of our research we will pilot and test new leadership models, linking them to the theatre and performance community.The methods that we are using are best suited to a participatory action approach which allow for maximum level of substantive participation from diverse stakeholders. This will allow us to innovate, co-create and share best practices for being able to respond to the crisis and enable diverse constituents in the sector to be heard by policy makers.By co-creation we refer to the participation of subjects and partners in further articulating the central questions of this research. In contrast to previous arts diversity initiatives, the project embeds those systematically excluded from leadership within the arts at every stage of the research, drawing on their expertise to build relevant and effective strategies of investigation.Throughout the project research methods will be adapted in response to participant feedback, to maximise impact, recognising that the practical expertise to combat discrimination and marginalisation lies in engaging, connecting with, and amplifying the voices of those directly affected by forms of institutional exclusion.Engagement with artists, organisations and audience initiatives will be activated to facilitate this through partner Something To Aim For (STAF) a sector support organisation funded by Wellcome Trust to increase diverse engagement in the arts and to support centralising voices on the fringes. STAF's networks include over 500 000 individuals and 73 arts organisations, ranging from Wellcome Collection and The Barbican to SMEs including Raze Collective, HighRise Theatre and Migrants in Culture. Direct engagement with artists and participants will mainly be conducted online, using strategies of digital networking to connect artists and networks who are increasingly fragmented and isolated. Workshops and other group activities will be facilitated through 'Us In the Making', a new digital hub developed to create and sustain communities who have been de-platformed, safely online, in response to Covid-19. Hub functionality allows video conferencing, group interaction and participation, remote hosting and presentation of materials and asynchronous access to documents and files.