University of Southampton researchers are producing or contributing to a variety of policy briefs on issues related to culture and creativity. Read more about their work below.
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Explore Creativity & Carbon: a toolkit-driven investigation into how we can measure and reflect on the environmental footprint of creative, authentic assessments. From reviewing carbon calculators to prototyping a bespoke model with students and faculty, this project bridges sustainability and pedagogy in the cultural and creative sectors.
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This report introduces and summarises The Affects of Funding in the
Arts – a project led by Professor Dan Ashton at Winchester School of
Art, University of Southampton (UK) between 2017-2018. The project
explored funding for arts and culture in the UK by focusing on funding
application processes and the arts professionals who engage with them.
This involved asking - who applies for funding, why and how?
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This report outlines and reflects on the University of Southampton’s collaboration with diverse sectors across Southampton to create a cultural data observatory.
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Explore how Neighbouring Data’s trilogy—Opening, Understanding, and Transforming the Observatory—reimagines how qualitative data is generated, connected, and used in place-based decision-making. From analysing twenty data observatories to co-developing creative prototypes, the series traces a shift from mapping existing systems to building new ways of seeing and sharing local insight.
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Read how Pathways to Health Consortium reimagines how we co-create and design pathways to health to understand what culture means to young people, how they use place-based cultural assets (strengths), and how they feel about the places where they live.
Read how TLP is collaborating with Turkish and Greek high school teachers.
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Read how Ka-Kin Cheuk highlights the role played by the Indian diaspora network in the development of the China-Dubai textile trade.
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Read how Ka-Kin Cheuk highlights the politics of expertise in policymaking in India and China.
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Read how Professor Will May and Joanna Nissel worked with ArtfulScribe, a Literature Development Agency based in Southampton, to better understand the role, capacity and needs of LDAs in regional development.
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Read how Professor Daniel Ashton, Porfessor Will May and Dr Aiysha Jahan discover how we can better build and sustain relationships and develop understanding between Councils and Artists.
Read how Professor Daniel Ashton, Professor Will May and Dr Aiysha Jahan discover how creative freelancers can seek local government-funded opportunities and projects.
Read how Dr Natalie Wreyford found and counted all the women (and men) working in key production roles on UK-qualifying films from 2003-2015.
Read how Professor Dan Ashton and Makanani Bell outline findings and make recommendations from the Public Policy Southampton funded project, Cultural strategies, compacts and futures: The role of local government in connecting culture with place, health and the environment.
