This Public Policy Southampton funded project examines how local authorities in England are aligning culture with place, health and the environment through cultural strategies and compacts. Employing a mixed methods research design and convening a knowledge exchange workshop, this project will provide analysis enabling local authorities to reflect on and explore how cultural strategies and compacts engage with place, health, environment, and other priority issues.
During 2023, Professor Dan Ashton (Principal Investigator) and Makanani Bell (research assistant) completed a Public Policy Southampton funded project examining how local authorities in England are aligning culture with place, health and the environment through cultural strategies and compacts. As the project developed, a wider set of findings emerged exploring how cultural strategy documents are created, updated and shared.
The main outputs from this project are a project report and a searchable, online database:
In addition, other materials from the project are available using the links below: