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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The cultural and creative industries have been subject to growing academic and policy interest, identified as a key growth sector and central to the nation's economic wellbeing and recovery from the recession. Yet, while...
Funded by: AHRC
Lead research organisation: University of Leeds
The project directly addresses the barriers to AHT sector employment for lower socioeconomic and protected groups, and discusses potential solutions.
The Creative Industries Sector Deal positions the Creative Industries as a central part of the UK economy in the imminent post-Brexit period, with major implications for its role not simply economically, but also sociall...
Funded by: AHRC
Lead research organisation: University of Sheffield
The project focuses on understanding and challenging inequality in the creative industries, which is directly related to the question.
The UK government is championing creative industries as a solution to urban problems of unemployment and social exclusion of young people on the basis of limited evidence. To assess the value of this policy this study wi...
Funded by: AHRC
Lead research organisation: University of East London
The project investigates the impact of community based performing arts programmes on the life paths of young people, which partially addresses the question.