Nation, State and Creative Economy

Schlesinger, Philip; Selfe, Melanie; Munro, Ealasaid

doi:10.1057/9781137478887_2

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“…reducing the reliance on public funding) put forth in UK government and cultural policy can translate for arts and cultural organisations into continued uncertainty and precarity. The findings explored under ‘working with change’ resonate with extant studies on organisational demands (Jones and Warren, 2016) and the requirements and pressures of developing relevant skills (Schlesinger et al, 2015). Swords’ (2017) findings on balancing artistic practice also feature in this research as an issue of balancing artistic programmes and events in relation to funding and organisational demands.…”

Section: Discussion: Organisational Portfolio Precaritysupporting

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“…The necessity for arts and cultural organisations to manage their income sources is not new. From cultural policy and cultural work perspectives, studies have examined external support for arts and cultural organisations (Schlesinger et al, 2015), cultural practitioners’ views on funding (Jones and Warren, 2016; Jordan and Jindal, 2020; Newsinger and Green, 2016) and new modes of patronage (Swords, 2017). The contemporary funding landscape requires arts and cultural organisations to identify and understand funding opportunities and openings in relation to an ever-wider range of possible sources.…”

Section: Funding Arts and Culture: Npm And The Everyday Experiences O...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Funding arts and culture: Everyday experiences and organisational portfolio precarity

Ashton

2022

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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This article examines the everyday experiences of arts and cultural organisations in negotiating the UK government and cultural policy priority for funding income diversification. Identifying the challenges of declining public funding and the connected pressures for arts and cultural organisations to be accountable, this article positions income diversification in relation to New Public Managerialism. In doing so, the need to examine the everyday experiences of how arts and cultural organisations engage with and respond to the income diversification priority is established. This article then presents findings from empirical research with arts and cultural organisations under the following three themes: balancing simultaneous sources, managing timelines and working through change. The discussion develops this analysis by identifying portfolio working and precarity as prominent and significant features of organisations’ experiences. Portfolio working is evident in how organisations identify and manage multiple, potential funding sources. Precarity is evident in the uncertainty and instability of managing the multiple funding sources, and in the way that organisations address operational issues of planning and working practices. To conclude, the concept of organisational portfolio precarity is proposed as a way to critically understand the everyday situations and implications of how art and cultural organisations respond to the income diversification priority.

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Section: Discussion: Organisational Portfolio Precaritysupporting

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Section: Funding Arts and Culture: Npm And The Everyday Experiences O...mentioning

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Funding arts and culture: Everyday experiences and organisational portfolio precarity

Ashton

2022

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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“…The utilisation of play in contemporary Scottish schools extends beyond traditional uses and extensions based on the realisation that desired outcomes of traditional schooling can be achieved, or achieved more effectively, through play. Education is also responsive to emergent opportunities within wider society; notably, the growing importance of gaming in the creative industries (Schlesinger et al 2015). For example, Hainey et al (2013) undertook a large scale gaming survey of almost 900 HE students from Scotland and the Netherlands that explored their gaming habits and perspectives on the use of games in education, finding that the majority favoured their incorporation as an educational mechanism in HE.…”

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Shall the twain meet? Prospects for a playfully play-full Scottish education

2019

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This is the opening paper in a Scottish Educational Review collection on Making Space for Play in Scottish Education. It is acknowledged that, historically, a perception of divergent purpose enabled education both to enlist play and to curb play to achieve desired educational outcomes. However, a new understanding of play has emerged in recent years, catalysed globally by the assertion in the UNCRC that play is a fundamental right of the child, and within the UK, by the response of the play sector to the challenge to articulate the value of play that was set by the Dobson report. Scotland is now a globally significant locus for the promotion of play, with strong national play leadership and, since 2013, a National Play Strategy. This paper asserts that it is timely to consider the extent to which Scottish education could and should embrace playful learning.

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Nation, State and Creative Economy

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Funding arts and culture: Everyday experiences and organisational portfolio precarity

Funding arts and culture: Everyday experiences and organisational portfolio precarity

Shall the twain meet? Prospects for a playfully play-full Scottish education

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