Ideas and Debates in Arts and Cultural Leadership

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• demonstrate accurate and effective academic research and communication skills

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

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

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

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.

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

Resources & Reading list

Journal Articles

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

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.

Textbooks

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Formative

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

Summative

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

Referral

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

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.