Evidence Repository - National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange

The NCACE Evidence Repository houses over 300 evidence sources on the scale, extent, nature, drivers, and wider impacts of cultural knowledge exchange and collaborations between Higher Education and the arts and culture sectors.

Materials are arranged under eight themed categories: General Knowledge Exchange, Cultural Knowledge Exchange, Knowledge Exchange and Covid-19, Toolkits and Skills for Knowledge Exchange, Placemaking and Levelling Out, Health and Wellbeing, Technologies for Social Good and Environment and Climate Emergency.

NCACE Publications

Narrating Cultural Knowledge Exchange: Stories and perspectives from Knowledge Exchange professionals working in Higher Education in the UK

Kill, R., NCACE (2022)

Climate Change Catastrophe!

Vanden, K., Kemp, L., NCACE (2022)

Greater than the Sum of Parts

Courage, C., NCACE (2022)

Guidance for developing collaborative projects

Sigal, S., Wilson, E., NCACE (2023)

General Knowledge Exchange

Collaboration and Knowledge Transfer between SMEs and Universities

Andrew Johnston, Enterprise Research Centre (2020)

Knowledge Exchange Funding: A review of novel evaluation methodologies

SQW, Research England (2019)

UK Research and Development Roadmap

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) (2021)

International perspectives on measuring and evaluating knowledge exchange

Birkbeck, University of London - Centre for Innovation Management Research (2019)

Cultural Knowledge Exchange

Research Digest: The Role of the Artist in Society

Wright, J., Centre for Cultural Value (2023)

By All, For All: The Power of Partnership. AHRC Creative Communities Deep Dive Report 2023

Creative Communities Programme, AHRC, Newcastle University (May 2023)

Knowledge co-creation: Interaction between science and society. A transdisciplinary approach to complex social issues

Regeer, B.J., Bunders, J.F.G., VU University Amsterdam (2009)

Making With: Conversations about Co-Creation

Hall, L. , Reason, M., Compass Festival (2023)

Knowledge Exchange And Covid-19

Doing Arts Research in a Pandemic

Midgelow, V.L., The Culture Capital Exchange (2020)

Knowledge Sharing and Exchange in a Pandemic

The Culture Capital Exchange, The Culture Capital Exchange (2020)

UCI’s and NCUB’s Innovating during a crisis: The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on how universities contribute to innovation Read the report

Ulrichsen, T.C., UCI Policy Evidence Unit, University of Cambridge (2021)

Toolkits And Skills For Knowledge Exchange

Knowledge Exchange in the SHAPE subjects

The British Academy, The British Academy (2021)

A Moral Failure in Cultural Policy

Belfiore, E., Arts Professional (2021)

How to...share research and evaluation findings through performance

Glynn, Martin, Centre for Cultural Value (2024)

NCACE Action Research Report: Skills and Capacity for Knowledge Exchange with the Arts and Cultural Sector

Dr Kayla Rose, National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange (2021)

Placemaking And Levelling Out

Supporting the Creative Industries: The Impact of the ‘Preston Model’ in Lancashire

Professor Philip B Whyman, Dr Adrian Wright, Mary Lawler , Dr Alina Petrescu, Policy & Evidence Centre (2022)

By All, For All: The Power of Partnership. AHRC Creative Communities Deep Dive Report 2023

Creative Communities, Northumbria University (2023)

Metrics matter: how (not) to measure regional inequalities

Allas, T., Terra Allas (2021)

Creative Improvement Districts

Culture Commons, Culture Commons (2022)

Health And Wellbeing

Research Digest: Older People’s Physical Health

Dowlen, R., Centre for Cultural Value (2022)

AESOP Dance to Health Phase 1 Report

Aesop (Arts Enterprise with a Social Purpose), ae-sop.org (April 2020)

What's Up With Everyone?

Professor Paul Crawford, Aardman Animations, University of Nottingham (2022)

Creatively minded and the NHS: an overview of participatory arts offered by the NHS to people with mental health problems

David Cutler, The Baring Foundation (2021)

Technologies For Social Good

Hopeful Futures for Creative Innovation

Dovey, J., Roberts, L. , Moreton, S., Lowe, J., Bristol+Bath Creative R+D (2023)

HERITAGE CONNECTOR Transforming text into data to extract meaning and make connections

Stack, J., Towards a National Collection (2022)

Persistent Identifiers as IRO Infrastructure

Kotarski, R., Towards a National Collection (2022)

Environment And Climate Emergency

Examining the Potential of Art-Science Collaborations in the Anthropocene: A Case Study of Catching a Wave

Peterson, K. et al., Frontiers in Marin Science: Marine Affairs and Policy (2020)

Dryden Goodwin, Invisible Dust (2022)

CREATURES DELIVERABLE: Review report of transformational strategies

Braybrooke, K., Houston, L., Light, A., CreaTures project (2022)

Culture, Climate and Environmental Responsibility: Annual Report 2020 – 21

Arts Council England, Arts Council England