Ideas and Debates in Arts and Cultural Leadership | ARTD6220

Module overview

This module sets out the programme’s focus on understanding and shaping the role of arts and culture in society. You will examine current issues, debates and developments in arts and cultural management and leadership. Examining and evaluating a range of scholarly, industry, and policy resources, you will critically analyse examples and case studies. The programme engages with international examples and partners to ensure a diversity of perspectives, and to question and disrupt established strategies and approaches to arts and cultural sector leadership and management. In this module, you will develop the academic research and communication skills required across the programme. This module will enable you to evaluate research to create new understandings and insights into the field of arts and cultural management and leadership.

Aims and Objectives

Learning Outcomes

Disciplinary Specific Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

evaluate academic ideas and debates that advance research relating to arts and cultural sector leadership issues and practices

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

critically analyse examples and case studies relevant to arts and cultural leadership

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

demonstrate accurate and effective academic research and communication skills

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

how to critically examine academic ideas and debates related to arts and cultural leadership

Syllabus

This module critically examines issues and debates relating to arts and cultural sector management and leadership. The starting point is to examine the relationship between leadership and management through a range of models and theories, including: - Authentic leadership - Responsible leadership - Values-based leadership - Ethical leadership - Purpose-drive leadership These models and theories are explicitly connected to the specifics of art and cultural leadership, enabling you to understand, reflect on and explore the meeting points between leadership theory and practice and the strategic and operational issues and challenges within the sector. This module goes on to use these leadership models and theories to strategically examine the areas of practice that are essential for organisations and practitioners in arts and cultural sectors. Indicative topics include: - Audience research, engagement and evaluation - Cultural policy and cultural value - Organisation and governance - Marketing - Fundraising and development - Governance The module content is responsive to changing priorities and agendas across academia, industry, policy and activist contexts. Issues of sustainability, equity and belonging, and social justice are embedded throughout the exploration of these topics. Likewise, the critical analysis and applied practice of arts and cultural ethical leadership is integrated across the whole programme and connected to each of these topics. Your examination of these topics will be aligned with your other semester 1 modules which focus on engaging with external partners and perspectives and employing relevant resources and skills.

Learning and Teaching

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching and learning methods may include: - Lectures - Interactive sessions with arts and cultural sector organisations and practitioners - Seminars - Student-led presentations - Independent reading and research

Study time
Type	Hours
Teaching	48
Private study hours	252
Total study time	300

Resources & Reading list

Journal Articles

Kempster, S. and Jackson, B. (2022). Leadership for What, Why, for Whom and Where? A Responsibility Perspective. Journal of Change Management, 21(1), pp. 45-65.

Todnem, R.B.. Leadership: In Pursuit of Purpose.. Journal of Change Management, 21(2), pp. 30-44.

Textbooks

Caust, J. (2018). Arts Leadership in Contemporary Context. Routledge.

Rentschler, R. (2018). Arts Governance: People, Passion, Performance. Routledge.

Hadley, S. (2021). Audience Development and Cultural Policy. Springer.

Pitts, S.E and Price, S.M. (2021). Understanding Audience Engagement in the Contemporary Arts. Routledge.

O’Reilly, D. (2013). The Routledge Companion to Arts Marketing.. Routledge.

DeVereaux, C. (2018). Arts and Cultural Management: Sense and Sensibilities in the State of the Field. Routledge.

Mohr, J.W., Bail, C.A., Frye, M., Lena, J.C., Lizardo, O., McDonnell, T.E., Mische, A., Tavory, I. and Wherry, F.F. (2020). Measuring Culture. Columbia University Press.

Malik, K. and Dudrah, R. (2020). South Asian Creative and Cultural Industries.. Routledge.

Paquette, J. and Redaelli, E. (2015). Arts Management and Cultural Policy Research. Palgrave Macmillan.

Durrer, V. and Henze, R. (2020). Managing Culture: Reflecting on Exchange in Global Times. Springer.

Raviola, E. and Zackariasson, P. (2016). Arts and Business: Building a Common Ground for Understanding Society. Routledge.

Kaehler, B. (2022). Management and Leadership: Definition, Differentiations, and Other Theoretical Considerations (chapter in Contemporary Management). Springer.

Henze, R. and Escribal, F. (2021). Cultural Management and Policy in Latin America. Routledge.

Assessment

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Plan

Assessment Type: Formative
Feedback: Written and verbal feedback
Final Assessment: No
Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Report	100%

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Report	100%

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Report	100%