National Knowledge Exchange Network on participation and engagement in the arts

自2009年以来在英格兰北部运行的一个区域网络的成功鼓励了该项目。该网络由利兹城市大学协调，并得到英格兰艺术理事会的支持。该倡议得到了与会者的良好反馈，在区域研讨会上提交了高质量的论文，目前的项目将通过学术界、决策者和从业人员之间的知识交流，在国家一级发展这一倡议。它将通过一系列多学科研讨会（来自艺术政策和管理，社会学，人类学，政治学，心理学和人文地理学等）分享新的和现有的研究。此外，将通过在线资源传播研究成果。目的是探讨文化参与研究与更广泛的公共政策的相关性，包括健康和福祉、青年政策、社会包容和社区发展等领域。该项目的成果之一将是为从事社会参与的艺术实践、文化管理和政策工作的人员确定一个新的培训议程，涉及前面提到的更广泛的公共政策领域。该项目还旨在通过网络参与者与英格兰艺术理事会、文化、媒体和体育部以及地方当局之间的交流，为政策提供信息，并更广泛地提高公共决策者对文化参与的认识，文化参与与公共政策之间的联系超越了文化部门，目前研究不足，该项目旨在开始填补这一知识空白。在新的研究中，我们将特别注意的一个问题是文化参与的冷点和热点，这与社会经济不平等的地理模式直接相关。英国艺术理事会（ACE）正在设立一个名为“创意人物和场所”的特别基金，以解决这些冷点参与率低的问题。我们计划与ACE合作，在艺术理事会选定的其中一个试点地点举办一个研究研讨会，并传播有关创意人物和地方倡议影响的新研究。其他研讨会将探讨：1）文化参与与公共政策参与性决策之间的联系2）文化参与研究的国际维度及其政策含义3）文化参与与公共政策制定的特定领域之间的联系4）该研究所的研究重点是新出现的问题，如技术变革，年轻人的价值观和生活方式，以及跨文化交流和混合的问题。

This project has been encouraged by the success of a regional network that has been running since 2009 in the North of England. The network has been co-ordinated by Leeds Metropolitan University and supported by Arts Council England. The initiative received good feedback from participants and high quality papers were presented at regional seminars.The current project will develop this initiative at national level through knowledge exchange between academics, policy makers and practitioners. It will share new and existing research through a series of multi disciplinary seminars (drawn from arts policy and management, sociology, anthropology, political science, psychology and human geography among others). In addition research will be disseminated through an online resource. The aim will be to explore the relevance of research on cultural participation to broader public policy, in fields including health and wellbeing, youth policy, social inclusion and community development. One of the outcomes of the project will be to define a new training agenda for people working in socially engaged artistic practice, cultural management and policy, in relation to the broader public policy areas mentioned earlier. The project also aims to inform policy through exchange between network participants and the Arts Council England, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and local authorities, and raise the profile of cultural participation for public policy makers more generally, thus contributing to the development of policy for a more vibrant and fairer societyThe links between cultural participation and the public policy going beyond the cultural sector are at present under researched and the project aims to begin to fill this knowledge gap. One issue we will pay particular attention to for new research is that of cold and hot spots of cultural participation, which are directly correlated with geographical patterns of socio-economc inequality. Arts Council England (ACE) are in the process of setting up a special fund called Creative People and Places, to address the problem of low participation in these cold spots. We plan to work in partnership with ACE to deliver a research seminar in one of the pilot locations identified by the Arts Council and disseminate new research into the impact of the Creative People and Places initiative.Other seminars will explore:1) the links between cultural participation and participatory decison making in public policy2) the international dimension of research on cultural participation and its policy implications3) the connections between cultural participation and selected fields of public policy making4) trends and research with a focus on emerging issues such as technological change, young people's values and lifestyles, and issues around intercultural exchange and hybridity.