Research

Investment in R&D, venture funding, and crowdfunding are major missed opportunities for the arts sector, according to a new report.

Just a third of art and design teachers say their subjects are highly valued by senior management – fewer in state schools than independent schools.

Arts Council England is preparing to make its funding data more accessible as the National Audit Office reports on Government grant services and a Public Administration Select Committee turns its attention to the accountability of quangos and public bodies. 

The arts sector and the public are both missing out due to a communication gap between cultural organisations and local government and health commissioners. 

The “most relevant and robust research” about the cultural sector is being made more accessible to arts practitioners through a King’s College London initiative.

The distribution of Lottery funding for the arts is a closed system, operating for the benefit of a small number of arts organisations but to the detriment of wider society and the economy, according to a new report by the authors who recently revealed England’s regional arts funding imbalance.