Analyse and explain what works in terms of increasing access to and engagement with AHT sectors, notably across young people, people who are currently in lower socioeconomic households and ethnic minorities.
Background
Workforce development, maintaining skills pipelines and ensuring diversity and inclusion in AHT sectors is important and further studies to understand how interventions have positively or negatively impacted them will be useful. Additionally, how cultural and creative education leads to wider societal impacts and effects potential earnings is of research interest. Understanding the impact of arts, culture, heritage and tourism on levelling up and how AHT sectors impact this agenda is crucial.
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Related UKRI funded projects
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Creative Industries and social inclusion: young people's pathways through informal & community learning in the performing arts
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Why might this be relevant?
The project investigates the impact of community based performing arts programmes on young people's life paths, which partially addresses the question about increasing access to and engagement with AHT sectors.
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A New Model for Visual Arts Participation: Access, Education, Cohesion
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Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on developing a model for visual arts participation that addresses access, education, and cohesion, which aligns with the question's objectives.
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Centre for Cultural Value
The UK's arts & cultural sector is thriving: it contributes 674,000 jobs and £11.8bn per annum to the economy and remains one of its fastest growing sectors (DCMS, 2018). Yet despite this strong economic perfor...
Funded by: AHRC
Lead research organisation: University of Leeds
Why might this be relevant?
The project aims to address structural problems in the arts & cultural sector, including a lack of diversity and skills gaps, which is relevant to the question about increasing engagement in AHT sectors.