We're pleased to see our work here at Culture Commons being highlighted as best practice in this new publication by Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN) - 'How does Arts and Humanities research influence public policymaking?' The paper, co-authored by Prof Arlene H. and Luke Sewell, draws on a series of examples of where higher education institutes and #arts and #humanities researchers have successful influenced policymaking processes. Professor Ben Walmsley from Centre for Cultural Value - longtime collaborators of ours - outlines how the Centre unlocked internal Research England funding to work with the Culture Commons team as part of the 'Culture of Crisis' - a large scale Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded research programme responding to the #Covid19 pandemic's impacted on the UK's #creative #cultural and #heritage ecosystem. At a time of great disruption, we worked with the core multidisciplinary #research team across the four UK nations to ensure key findings were being fed through to policymakers in UK Government and the devolved governments in real time as the pandemic progressed. This productive partnership led to the development of a series of co-designed recommendations that we shared with policymakers at an event in the UK House of Lords in 2022. These centred around better social security provisions for #artists and cultural practitioners; new fora for local cultural decision making; investing in targeted #skills training for early career workers; moving away from competition-based models of funding; and developing mission orientated investments into the ecosystem. You can read the full UPEN paper outlining some of the benefits of the collaboration here: https://lnkd.in/evR3thbS And catch the policy recommendations we worked up together with the Centre team back in 2022 (but which are still very relevant!) here: https://lnkd.in/eNftGH6Z
