What is affecting future access to training and employment in AHT sectors for lower socioeconomic and protected groups and sector skills gaps?
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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Improving Cultural Work: combating inequality and exclusion in the cultural and creative industries
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
Why might this be relevant?
The project discusses the barriers to entry and career sustainability in the cultural and creative industries, particularly for underrepresented groups, which is relevant to the question's focus on access to training and employment in AHT sectors for lower socioeconomic and protected groups.
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Creative Industries and social inclusion: young people's pathways through informal & community learning in the performing arts
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
Why might this be relevant?
The project investigates the impact of community-based performing arts programs on the life paths of young people, including their transitions into employment or further education, which partially addresses the question's focus on future access to training and employment in AHT sectors.
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Understanding and challenging inequality in culture
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
Why might this be relevant?
The project aims to understand the dynamics of inequality in the creative industries, including access to work for underrepresented groups and the role of senior leadership in reinforcing these inequalities, which is relevant to the question's focus on future access to training and employment in AHT sectors for lower socioeconomic and protected groups.