Over the last nine months, the Culture Commons team have been working closely with leading universities and research institutions across the UK to develop new research exploring devolution and increased local decision making as part of a major four-nations open policy development programme.
You can read all the research papers and the wider insights we've been gathering here:
'the future of local cultural decision making' Research Partners are:
This rich research resource has been brought together to inform the policymaking phase of the programme which has now commenced and will run through until October 2024 when a 30-strong coalition of partners led by Culture Commons will publish a series of new policy proposals for local, regional and national policymakers later in the year.
We're covering a diverse range of policy areas, including: cultural rights, cultural strategies, cultural democracy, co-operative business models, local and regional government preparedness and pan-regional governance.
Research Spotlight: Last month, we published an exciting new paper focussed on research commissioned by Culture Commons by Thinks Insight & Strategy exploring what the public really think about local cultural decision making. The methodology used by the Thinks team has helped us to bring in voices who would not ordinarily be involved in policymaking processes via focus groups with representative samples of citizens in each of the four UK nations and all regions of the UK. The findings are challenging us to think carefully about how citizens can be meaningfully involved in cultural decision making in an age of consultation-fatigue!
Trevor MacFarlane, Director of Culture Commons said:
"We're incredibly grateful to all our research partners for working with us so closely to build this important new evidence base. We're blessed to have some of the finest researchers in the world thinking about culture, creativity and heritage here in the UK - it's been a particular joy to bring their expertise together with devolution and policy specialists to take a truly multidisciplinary approach. We're looking forward to reviewing the evidence to inform the co-design of a robust set of policy positions that we hope will help national, regional and local policymakers make the most of everything that devolution has to offer to communities and our sectors."
All discussions, insight and research papers connected to the programme can be found on the programme hub. We have more papers to come so do keep a look out on our social media channels (Twitter/X and LinkedIn) over the summer.ic think about the future of local cultural decision making?√
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