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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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Measuring the economic value of cultural sites and institutions poses challenges. Traditional economic impact studies have tended to value the market benefits of culture, such as the impacts on employment and gross value...
Funded by: AHRC
Lead research organisation: Nesta
The project partially addresses the question by studying the economic value of cultural sites and institutions, but does not directly address the spillover effects in nearby surrounding areas.
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
The project partially addresses the question by studying the value of the arts and cultural sector, including its impact on place-making and culture-led regeneration, but does not directly address the causal relationship between cultural funding and socioeconomic impacts.
Recent research suggests that small-scale cultural activities may be of particular value to communities because of their ability to develop social capital and "engaged citizenship". Small-scale organisations al...
Funded by: AHRC
Lead research organisation: Queen Mary University of London
The project partially addresses the question by evaluating the social impacts of local arts organizations, but does not directly address the causal relationship between cultural funding and socioeconomic impacts.