NCACE champions Knowledge Exchange and collaboration between Higher Education and the arts and cultural sectors.

NCACE Monthly Bulletin

Dear Reader,
A warm welcome to our December bulletin.

We are pleased to take this moment to share details of some of our early New Year activities as well as our new NCACE Collection publication and blogs.

Upcoming Events at a glance.

We are delighted to be part of a symposium on 15 January to launch the brand new AHRC Online Research Library presented by Clore Leadership and the AHRC. The Online Research Library currently comprises around 85 papers and will continue to grow with contributions from each cohort of Clore Leadership Fellows, reflecting current trends in cultural leadership and the creative sectors.

We’ll then be presenting our third Ideas Pool A Hybrid Performance Innovation Lab on Tuesday 23 January and we invite call for participants to join IJAD Dance Company and researchers, artists, producers, technologists, curators, funders and policy-makers and NCACE in a day of knowledge exchange, discussion and ideation. Hosted by The Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CitAI) at City, University of London.

On 31 January the focus of our next NCACE Meetup will be on Generative AI and will consider how researchers, arts and culture sector organisations and artists could harness the potential of generative AI. Led by Dr Enrico Bertelli, Chief Executive and Co-Founder of Conductive Music and Associate Professor at Lingnan University in Hong Kong.

NCACE Collection and Evidence Repository

We are really pleased to announce our new publication REF 2021: Research Impact and the Arts and Culture Sectors, with contributions from Professor Maria Delgado (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama), Dr Federica Rossi (Co-I, NCACE), Dr Ning Baines (University of Leicester), Dr Laura Kemp (NCACE) and Evelyn Wilson (NCACE).

The report is published as part of our NCACE Collection which contains a series of inspiring essays, case studies and blogs as well as useful research reports and mini-toolkits on a plethora of topics relating to Cultural Knowledge Exchange. It has been developed as a space to house and showcase all the work that we have directly undertaken and/or commissioned over the last three years or so.

It complements NCACE Evidence Repository, our gateway to a growing body of online resources relating to knowledge exchange and collaborations between academia and the arts and cultural sectors. The repository is a significant signposting tool for research with almost 300 open access resources on topics including: Placemaking, Climate Emergency and Health and Wellbeing. If you would like us to signpost relevant material on these and other repository topics, then do please email laura@tcce.co.uk to discuss further.

Do follow us on LinkedIn where we showcase content from both the Collection and the Evidence Repository with a focus this month on materials on Climate and Environment related themes in response to Cop28.

NCACE Blogs

Many thanks to Artist Faye Claridge and Researcher Dr Ana Chamberlen (University of Warwick), awardees of the second round of NCACE Micro-commissions, for writing this month’s blog Creative Change: Interaction and Impact on Wellbeing in Incarceration.

NCACE on SoundCloud

Recordings of most NCACE events are over on our SoundCloud channel where you can listen to key events, discussions, debates, workshops and in-conversations across a rich panoply of themes relating to Cultural Knowledge Exchange.

Our latest recordings are from our Evidence cafés on our REF 2021 research in November, and on Universities, Local authorities and Cultural Partnerships in October.

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