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:
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 as it discusses the structural problems in the cultural sector and proposes solutions, but does not explicitly analyze prerequisite conditions for effective cultural investment.
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 discussing the economic value of cultural institutions and the challenges in measuring it, but does not explicitly analyze prerequisite conditions for effective cultural investment.
The main objective is to develop a taxonomy of culture and heritage capital (CHC) that articulates the multiple benefits and values generated by culture and heritage (C&H)in a way that enables us to give weight to C&...
Funded by: AHRC
Lead research organisation: Historic Bldgs & Mnts Commis for England
The project partially addresses the question as it aims to develop a taxonomy for culture and heritage capital, which could be a part of the infrastructure needed for effective cultural investment, and the authors have the necessary expertise in the field.