Annual Report 2017/18
Inspiring Collaboration
Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2
FUNDING SWARMS AND APPLICATIONS 3
TCCE RESEARCHER-LED FORA 4-5
WORKSHOPS, NETWORKING EVENTS AND SYMPOSIA 6-9
PUBLICATIONS 10-11
COLLABORATIONS, PRESENTATIONS AND CONSULTATIONS 12-13
TCCE E-NEWSLETTER AND SOCIAL MEDIA 14
OTHER FORMS OF SUPPORT 15
TCCE BESPOKE SERVICES 16
TCCE OTHER PROJECTS 17
NETWORK, MEMBERS AND PARTNERS 18-19
CORE STAFF PROFILES 20 TCCE ANNUAL REPORT 2017/18
Executive Summary
As our members will be aware, in the We look forward to working with you academic year 2017/18 we developed in future and would like to take this a brand new membership scheme, opportunity to thank you so much for based on institutional turnover. We your ongoing commitment, support did so based on consultation with and responsiveness. our members. You told us that membership rates were higher than Best wishes comparable membership bodies operating in Higher Education. We Evelyn Wilson and Suzie Leighton took on your views and responded accordingly.
We also developed a Beyond London membership campaign. In less than a year, we were joined by: University of Kent, Liverpool John Moores University and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. This is a timely shift, coinciding with rapid funding TCCE are simply outstanding. Working with diversification to the regions, largely the team over many years has allowed me and in response to the Industrial Strategy. Institutions I have represented to gain access We anticipate that opportunities to, and insights from, key individuals and for more dispersed networks will institutions within the Cultural Industries. When continue to present themselves in seeking partners to collaborate, or advice on response to new policy directives. sector dynamics, TCCE are without doubt the first port of call. All of my previous projects, We are really pleased to have worked and those continuing to date have been highly with so many wonderful colleagues successful, in much part due to TCCE’s expertise over the last academic year. We value and professionalism. and welcome your feedback. It has Ian Gibbs been heartening to see such strong Head of Academic Enterprise interest in our new bid swarms and City, University of London fora in particular. This short report highlights the key activities we have undertaken over the year. It also highlights how we can work with you on a more bespoke basis, should you so desire.
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Funding Swarms And Applications
In the last year TCCE has University, aimed to create a diverse brought members together network which also aimed to use technologies to enable diverse creative for initial round-tables and businesses to secure their IP and subsequent development of develop new routes to market. both large and smaller-scale funding applications. AHRC Creative Economy Programme Involving partners from our wider networks in the cultural TCCE held a bid swarm which resulted and creative industries, as in at least two submissions to EOI stage, one co-developed by City and well as non TCCE academic TCCE with other partners including: members where appropriate, Manchester Metropolitan, The British we have been pleased to Library, Knowledge Quarter, the V&A, support applications to the Design Council and Golant Media Ventures. Another bid, again with a large-scale schemes led by very significant range of stakeholders AHRC, HEFCE and ESRC. and partners and led by colleagues at In the last 12 months we have LSBU and Ravensbourne University London were invited to submit to full initiated and supported the application stage. following applications:
ESRC Cross-disciplinary Mental Health Network Connecting Capability Plus Fund Colleagues from Middlesex University TCCE worked with two separate and other TCCE members of the member led consortia. One bid led by newly formed TCCE Arts and Health City University of London, focussed Forum, worked together to develop a on engaging emerging technologies proposal to this fund. The Eco-Arts within the creative industry SME Network bid was proposed as means Sector. Other TCCE members, of combining ecological, co-creative, including Ravensbourne University and arts-based methods to develop London were also involved in that innovative approaches to young bid. A second bid, led by Middlesex people’s mental health.
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TCCE Researcher-Led Fora
Following our Sounding Board as a mini-hub within the network, meeting in Somerset House bringing researchers together to last June, several members discuss and showcase work, meet with professionals in the fields of Arts and expressed interest in working Health and horizon scan for funding more closely and purposefully bids and other such opportunities. together on big themes Representatives for across TCCE’s member institutions attended the of common interest and launch and several were subsequently concern. involved in the above-cited ESRC Cross-disciplinary Mental Health Plus As a result of this decision, Network bid. we have launched three new fora in the current academic year with plans for further Arts and Digital Creativity developments in the coming Forum academic year. The TCCE Arts and Digital Creativity Forum had it’s initial meeting in May 2018. Convened by Liverpool John Moores University and hosted Arts And Health Forum by Ravensbourne University London the first meeting was well attended by a group of researchers from In November 2017, TCCE members across many different disciplines. Dr University of West London and Pauline Brookes, from LJMU and Dr City, University of London were Nick Lambert from Ravensbourne instrumental in bringing the inaugural gave opening provocations, and a TCCE Arts and Health forum to fascinating range of research interests fruition with presentations by Prof were shared, with many areas of Victoria Tischler (Professor of Arts mutual interest revealed. Researchers and Health and Head of Dementia from LJMU, Ravensbourne and Care, University of West London) and University of Kent have formed a Dr Patricia Moran (Head of English Steering Group to take the group Dept, City, UoL). The intention forward. Meetings will be opened to is that, over time, the TCCE Arts invited artists and creative industries and Health Forum will become a professionals. member managed initiative, acting
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The Imagination Cafe. Image courtesy of Victoria Tischler
Creative Entrepreneurship will be steered by representatives from Forum Middlesex University and London Southbank University. Creative Entrepreneurship has been highlighted as an issue of common interest across the majority of TCCE members, and the first meeting of the forum, hosted and chaired by Professor Helena Gaunt, Guildhall School of Music and Drama was well attended. Opening provocations from Professor Gaunt and Dr Neelam Raina, Middlesex University and GCRF Challenge Leader Security Protracted Conflict, Refugee Crises and Forced Displacement: typified the breadth of approaches, disciplines and methodologies used to approach the topic throughout the membership. This provides a set of very rich possibilities for collaboration between TCCE members. In 2018/19 the group 5 TCCE ANNUAL REPORT 2017/18
Workshops, Networking Events And Symposia
As ever, much of the activity cultural institutions to come together TCCE produces and curates with researchers to engage in peer-to- peer sharing, networking and learning. is designed to bring together The workshop, devised by Evelyn the arts and academia. Wilson, used the following themes to Creating opportunities for kickstart discussions: discussion and potential • Creativity, automation and the collaboration is part of arts our DNA and we feel that • Art, technology and mobility • Immersion: its promises and such work is increasingly troubles important. This year has been • Data Anxiety and technology no exception and has seen • Technology and the communal us bring together diverse experience groups to explore very timely Guest presenters included Professor and challenging issues such John Sloboda (Guildhall School of as technology and ethics, Music and Drama) and Ruth Catlow identity and climate change. (Furtherfield).
Networking Event at the Design Museum Technology, Ethics and the Arts Now Workshop TCCE and the Design Museum were delighted to invite members to a research focussed round-table As part of the Intersections Festival, networking event to enable TCCE hosted by MAT at Queen Mary, member academics and professional University of London, TCCE hosted staff to develop research relationships a workshop addressing timely, with the museum as it approached challenging and complex questions the first anniversary of being in its new around how the arts are currently home in the former Commonwealth using digital technologies and the Institute in Kensington. wider political, social, ethical and While there is a nascent research economic contexts in which such uses programme underway at the museum, are unfolding. The workshop created a the museum recognises the potential space for artists and others working in 6 Image courtesy of MAT
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to develop more substantive and collaboration and its role in collaborative projects with the both research impact and the Higher Education sector. It has a development of artistic and longer-term aim that research will research practice underpin programme development • Gain insight into collaboration across curatorial, learning, public methodologies and values programme, audience development • Create a pop-up resources map and collections. The purpose of the of the collaborative activity in networking round-table was therefore the group to hear more from senior staff at • Pitch ideas for collaborative the museum about their research projects or partnerships, small ambitions, to share ideas on those or large and discuss potential research • Meet representatives from collaborations, partnership models and funding bodies, expand potential funding streams. networks and meet potential mentors and critical friends. The day as a mix of talks, preparatory workshops and pitches. Hackademia 3.0 Throughout the day we were joined by speakers including Professor Hackademia 5x5x5 Culture Hack was Robert Hampson (Royal Holloway, designed to create a playful space for University of London), Liz Hill TCCE Early Career Researchers as (Arts Professional), Mark Prest well as Artists and Creative SMEs to: (Founding Director - Portraits of • Reflect on and learn about Recovery (PORe), Pam Johnson 7 TCCE ANNUAL REPORT 2017/18
Picture by Kasia Molga, Aerial Pictures – Gambia to Europe
(Senior Partnerships Officer Arts heady mix of academics, artists, creatives, Council England) and Dr Joanna Dunster activists and those engaged in politics. At (Portfolio Manager: Research Careers a point where our futures feel arguably and Training, Arts and Humanities increasingly uncertain and volatile, Research Council). Representatives and where atmospheres of anxiety are from TCCE partner universities also pervasive, the symposium was designed to joined us including: Dr Mark Gray provide a space to take stock and reflect (Director of Knowledge Transfer, on how we might imagine and indeed Middlesex University), Dr Erik Bohemia create conditions for positive change. (Loughborough University London) and Ian Gibbs (Head of Academic Enterprise, Furthermore it invited us to consider how City, University of London). we might sensitise ourselves to seemingly diffuse and disparate concerns, such as identity and environment. The symposium was chaired by Colin TCCE Summer Symposium: Grant (Author and Historian) with panel contributors including: Alice Black Refresh, Reboot, Retool: new (Director, Design Museum), Ruth Catlow imaginaries for challenging (Co-Director, Furtherfield), Emma times. Dick (Middlesex University), Kasia Molga (Artist), Professor Toby Miller, (Loughborough University London) TCCE’s summer symposium: Refresh, Caroline Russell and Paula Graham- Reboot, Retool: new imaginaries for Gazzard. challenging times brought together a
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Workshops were led by: Duckie, Mark Prest, Curator and Founding Director, Portraits of Recovery and Michaela Jones, Scottish Recovery Consortium, Greenwich Welcomes Action Group (students from Ravensbourne University London), Nick Makoha and Bodhan Piasecki, The BeatFreeks Collective. Author Tony White led a Holborn-based walk based on his new novel The Fountain in the Forest, published by Faber and Faber.
Working with The Culture Capital Exchange has provided me with many highlights, from a sense of common cause to meeting new people and learning an abundance of new things.
Professor Toby Miller Loughborough University London
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Publications
Whilst TCCE is primarily Developing Creative regarded as a doing, Education after Brexit producing and connecting organisation, we are We were delighted to partner with Council for Higher Education in increasingly recognising the Art and Design (CHEAD) and the importance and value of All-Party Parliamentary Design creating spaces in which to and Innovation Group (APPDIG) write about our work. on Developing Creative Education after Brexit which was launched at Portcullis House in September 2017. In fact, we feel have a duty The report was the culmination of a to do so. Not only does it put series of consultation round-tables. TCCE presented at and helped down a marker for our work to promote the event specifically in the wider world, it also focussing on Creative Research and helps create better awareness, Collaboration in June 2017. The report focuses on the follows areas: The respect and interest in the Potential of the Creative Industries, diverse practices that exist International Students, Research around the new modes of and Collaboration, Creative Higher collaboration, knowledge Education Institutions in a Regional Context and The Creative Skills sharing and production that pipeline. we have been pioneering for so long. The Exchange: Revealing As such, we have been very Collaborative Values pleased that, over the last We were delighted to launch our latest year, we have been able to TCCE publication after our recent both contribute to joint Summer Symposium. The National publications as well as Network for Academic and Creative developing our own. Exchange (‘The Exchange’) was a pilot developed by The Culture Capital
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Exchange (TCCE) to explore and exchange best practice in effective research collaboration. It was co- funded by HEFCE and Arts Council England. The Exchange brought together the agendas of creative SMEs, artists and HEIs for mutual benefit across a number of areas. The publication features a joint foreword from Dr Steven Hill, Director of Research, Research England and Darren Henley MBE, Chief Executive, Arts Council England. It also includes essays from TCCE directors, Paula Graham-Gazzard (Fossbox and Director, CVAN) and Ashley Jay Brockwell. Its focus is on the practice and policy background of TCCE’s wider work, as well as The Exchange project outputs, outcomes and impacts. The publication also features a range of case studies developed as part of the project evaluation.
It is very positive to see the high volume and diversity of beneficiaries The Exchange has directly impacted, and I hope this report will inspire many more collaborations.
Darren Henley OBE Chief Executive Arts Council England
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Collaborations, Consultations And Presentations
In the course of the last year, Chead conference we have been pleased to work TCCE were pleased to attend the with several external partners CHEAD Membership and Networking on a range of exciting event focussing on Knowledge collaborative projects, some Exchange in June of this year. of which have been designed Speakers included Alex Williams, Kingston University, Professor Bruce to effect change at a senior Cronin, University of Greenwich, policy level. This is a snapshot Alex Vincent, AHRC, Dr Graham of just some of the types of McLaren, Bath Spa University and Professor Gillian Youngs, Canterbury work with which we have been Christ Church University. TCCE engaged. Director Suzie Leighton presented on the work that TCCE and it’s members are undertaking to move beyond traditional Knowledge Transfer / Developing Creative Exchange models, to deeper, value Education after Brexit: A based collaborations. Plan for Economic Growth Arts Council / University This panel style event designed to launch the Developing Creative Alliance seminar Education after Brexit report was held to a national audience in Portcullis TCCE Director Suzie Leighton House, chaired by Barry Sheerman was invited to attend a round table MP: Co-Chair, APDIG and Member consultation called by Darren Henley, of Parliament for Huddersfield. CEO of Arts Council England Panellists: The Rt Hon Matt Hancock to discuss the introduction of a MP: Minister of State for Digital and Professional Doctorate aimed at arts Culture, Evelyn Wilson: Director, The leaders. It was a very interesting Culture Capital Exchange, Professor discussion, and highlighted some Anita Taylor: Executive Dean, Bath of the professional development School of Art & Design, Bath Spa requirements of the sector that TCCE University and Chair of Council for and it’s membership might be well Higher Education in Art and Design, placed to meet outwith the formal Jack Tindale: Manager, All Party framework of a ProfDoc. Design and Innovation Group.
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Image courtesy of Policy Connect
Knowledge Exchange key role that small and specialist Framework Response institutions who might find it hard to access HEIF funding play in this, making the case for the reintroduction In January TCCE directors worked of a minimum HEIF allocation for all with key contacts from Ravensbourne HEIs in addition to responding to the University London, City, University technical questions asked by HEFCE. of London, Royal Central School of You can see the response in full here. Speech and Drama and Guildhall School of Music and Drama to submit a response to the HEFCE Knowledge Exchange Framework consultation. In our response, we highlighted the scope for greater recognition of how knowledge exploitations and indeed knowledge circulations play out with regard to the cultural and creative industries and the role they play in fomenting relationships beyond and into other sectors, when well aligned with appropriate researcher capability and capacity. We highlighted the 13 TCCE ANNUAL REPORT 2017/18
TCCE E-Newsletter And Social Media
TCCE produces a long-standing and @InfoTCCE tweets were seen an highly regarded enewsletter that acts average of 4,000 times per month this as vehicle to promote TCCE members year, with our profile being visited 300 activities to TCCE’s extensive and times. ever increasing networks in the arts, cultural and creative sectors. Each month we reach nearly 10.000 Guildhall School’s ResearchWorks subscribers, with an average of 23 series is programme of research-focused events featured per issue. events which aim to bring together our staff, Throughout the course of the year students, members of the public and guests of we have issued 11 editorials, featured international standing. In the last year we have 108 news items, 229 events and 36 held over 25 events and seminars. Through the professional opportunities. TCCE newsletter, we have been able to reach With nearly 1,700 followers on a wide range of attendees, ensuring a range Twitter, TCCE’s online presence of insightful opinions are present at every acts as another valuable tool to ResearchWorks event. increase our members’ outreach and visibility. It is also a valuable vehicle Research Department for promoting our larger-scale events Guildhall School of Music and Drama such as Hackademia and our Summer Symposium.
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Other Forms Of Support
As well as our main bid swarms, TCCE directors continue to use our industry and extended national networks to support member institutions and individual member academics in forming collaborations in relation to a wide range of funding bids and other opportunities. Recent examples of this include brokerage around AHRC large grants, AHRC Audiences of the Future and the UKRI Strength in Places Fund.
TCCE directors have also continued to support individuals and institutions I have a much better understanding of what in finding academic and industry academic research actually entails and how partners for their conferences, this can complement, challenge and develop roundtables and public engagement artistically or socially driven creative practices. activities. For example, we are working Maria Brewster with LSBU to take forward a new Curator and Producer Blockchain Forum for the Arts and Creative Industries. Scheduled to take place in early Autumn 2018, the event will explore blockchain’s potential to reimagine and reinvent how the creative industries work across music, fine arts, film, television and games.
We have also worked to bring some of our institutions together with others, in and beyond TCCE, around areas of mutual concern and interest such as opportunities to be part of place- making strategies.
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TCCE Bespoke Services
In addition to the work we We understand and deeply value carry out on behalf of our the potential for such work socially, culturally and economically and can members as described in this help you to develop KE and public report, we also would like engagement activities within your make you aware of additional institutions. services we can offer Round-tables and members. TCCE members networking events are eligible for a 15% discount on standard rates for bespoke Are there issues that you’d like to services including the address but don’t have the time? Are there networks you need to develop following: or professionals you’re keen to reach out to? TCCE can work with you to bring diverse groups together around Funding bid shaping and issues of mutual concern and common purpose. development.
In addition to coordinating bid Workshops and learning swarms, we can also work with you in a deeper, more sustained way to activities bring bids to fruition. We can do this From issues such as internal resilience by helping to: shape content, develop to developing best practice in public engagement and knowledge collaboration, networking or working exchange and collaboration strategies, beyond your institution, we can help. identify external partners and lead on We can work with you to deliver specific work packages as appropriate. bespoke, results-focussed learning activities that enable your teams to achieve specific objectives or overcome Public Engagement obstacles in areas such as creative thinking and imagineering. activities
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TCCE Other Projects
Boosting Resilience conceptual thinking around creative assets - and indeed creative ecologies In 2017 together with The Centre more widely - to new limits. for Creativity in Professional We have recently joined forces with Practice at Cass Business School Arts Professional to develop and City, University of London and The Editorial Partnership that will take Centre for Enterprise, Manchester the messages of the programme to the Metropolitan University (CfE/ wider sector though a series of online Manchester Metropolitan University), articles. we were delighted to launch Boosting Resilience: Survival Skills for the New Normal.
Boosting Resilience is one of four new national flagship projects supported by Arts Council England, under their Building Resilience initiative, with the aim of exploring and piloting different approaches to sustainability across its portfolio.
The key goal of the Boosting Resilience: Survival Skills for the New Normal programme is to inspire and support the development of new approaches to making the most of Creative Assets and Intellectual Property in the arts and cultural sector.
The programme, running until 2019, works with a cohort of 26 participants from a diverse range of organisations across England. In its design and strategy, it takes into consideration and builds out from both established and emerging research and sector led thinking on resilience, aiming to create a practical, user- centred programme that also pushes 17 TCCE ANNUAL REPORT 2017/18
Network Members And Partners
TCCE Core Members
City University London Royal Central School of Speech & Drama Guildhall School of Music & Drama University of West London London South Bank University Liverpool John Moores University Loughborough University London University of Kent Middlesex University London Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Ravensbourne University London
The Exchange Pilot Partners
Birmingham City University People Dancing Canterbury Christ Church University Plymouth University De Montfort University Sound and Music Falmouth University University of East Anglia Fossbox University of Exeter Independent Theatre Council University of Kent Lancaster University University of Leeds Liverpool John Moores University University of Northumbria Loughborough University University of Oxford Manchester Metropolitan University University of Surrey
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TCCE works with a wide network of organisations including:
Royal Central School of Speech & Drama University of West London Artquest Julie’s Bicycle Liverpool John Moores University Arts & Humanities Research Council Knowledge Quarter University of Kent Arts Catalyst KTN Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Arts Council England Ladbury PR Arts Professional Museum of the Future BBC Radio 3 NCVO Ben Uri Gallery Nesta British Academy October Gallery British Council Palgrave Macmillan Capital Enterprise Phoenix Gallery CHEAD Q-Art Crafts Council Royal Academy of Arts Creative Industries Federation Royal Shakespeare Company Creative Matters Festival Somerset House CVAN Sound & Music DataKind UK SPACE Design Exchange Magazine St George’s House Design Manchester STEAMhouse Birmingham Design Museum Studio Wayne McGregor Design Museum Helsinki Tech North Designersblock TECHNE Digital Catapult The Art Workers’ Guild Euclid The British Library Fernandez and Wells The Cornelius Arts Foundation Finetuned The Royal Institution Fossbox The Sorrell Foundation Furtherfield They Eat Culture Golant Media Ventures Times Higher Education Higher Education Funding Council for TMRW England Toucan IBM UKTI Innovate UK V&A Intern Aware Westminster Arts Forum Journal of Visual Art Practice
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Core Staff Profiles
Suzie Leighton Evelyn Wilson Founding Director Founding Director Suzie joined LCACE, TCCE’s Evelyn joined LCACE, TCCE’s predecessor, as Senior Manager predecessor in 2005 and has been in 2005. Between 2012 – 2016 active in curation of initiatives she was also joint Head of designed to bring together researchers Knowledge Exchange Programme with the arts and creative sectors ever for Creativeworks London. Her since. She helped establish and became professional background encompasses joint Head of Knowledge Exchange dance and theatre management, a 5 Programme for Creativeworks London year stint at Arts Council England as (2012 - 2016). She has a deep history a Senior Officer and a secondment of developing ground-breaking cultural as a researcher to the DCMS Select programmes and collaborations. Committee. Suzie is currently Chair Evelyn is advisor to several Doctoral of the Board of Trustees of both Training programmes, is on the Jasmin Vardimon Dance Company and Advisory Board of Cass Centre for Theatre Peckham. Creativity and Professional Practice and is a member of Creative Industries Council’s Clusters and Regions Group. Giorgia Cacciatore Administrative and Communications Assistant TCCE has also benefited from working Giorgia holds an MA Culture Industry with a wide range of individuals and gained at Goldsmiths University, associates over the last year including: and has a background in the creative Enrico Bertelli, Pete Mitchell, Ashley industries. Before joining TCCE in Jay Brockwell, Paula Graham-Gazzard, November 2016, she collaborated with Sarah Rowles and Steve Grant. several organizations across Europe such as ACP Cultures+, Cineuropa, and the Italian Cultural Institute.
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