Making Data Work for Public Sector Policy: A scoping study to develop a mixed-methods framework for culture

让数据为公共部门政策服务：制定文化混合方法框架的范围界定研究

• 批准号: ES/V006924/1
• 负责人: Ben Walmsley
• 金额: $ 20.59万
• 依托单位: University of Leeds
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FV006924%2F1
• 关键词: Making; Data; Work; Public; Sector

The rationale behind this project is that cultural datasets are currently in a poor state of development and not fit-for-purpose. As many scholars, cultural workers, funders and policymakers have observed, cultural data are incomplete, fragmented and inconsistent. There are no agreed protocols about how to collect data, or even about what kind of data to collect, and no standardised approach to data management. This means that all of the data coming from the cultural sector are not currently set up for cross-analysis, which makes it very difficult to evaluate and provide evidence about the performance and impact of the cultural sector as a whole. This leaves the sector poorly appreciated by the general public, some local councils and even governments, and therefore very vulnerable to public funding cuts in financial and economic crises such as the current COVID-19 crisis. The central aim of this exploratory project is to co-develop a fit-for-purpose mixed-methods cultural evaluation framework that combines insights from large datasets with soft, qualitative data that capture the lived experiences of people who produce and consume culture, such as artists, curators and audiences. We hope to achieve this by developing a new strategic network to scope and test out possible solutions to the problems listed above though a series of consultations and discussions conducted face-to-face and/or through webinars. This network will include key data, policy and cultural sector stakeholders, including the UK Government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and a wide range of national cultural organisations who are committed to developing more robust data standards and protocols and to fostering a more joined-up approach to cultural impact and evaluation by sharing their data and opening them up to research. A secondary goal of this project is to shape cultural policymaking and in so doing to inform the ways in which public policy in general is developed. We believe that public policymaking is currently too far removed from the people and places it aims to benefit and that is it overly reliant on numbers that fail to tell compelling stories of the cultural sector's impact on society. We hope to demonstrate, therefore, that a more joined-up and people-centred approach to evaluating the impacts of culture on individuals and communities would produce more reliable and credible data that capture impacts in ways that reflect the particular ways in which different people and places experience culture. We will test our emerging data and evaluation frameworks by designing a comprehensive case study of Bradford. We have chosen Bradford essentially because the city is mobilising to apply for UK City of Culture in 2025, and as part of this preparation, it is undertaking a detailed needs analysis that requires complex merging of cultural data with other sources of demographic and health data held by the city. So our engagement with Bradford will be mutually informative. In order to achieve our objectives, the project has brought together an expert team of academic and cultural sector specialists. Collectively, our researchers have significant experience in research methods, cultural management and evaluation, policy engagement and development, and data management and analysis. Our sector partners include world-leading cultural organisations such as the British Library, Tate and the National History Museum; national cultural funders such as Arts Council England and Historic England; expert cultural data analysts including The Audience Agency and MyCake; and significant regional partners including Bradford 2025, Bradford Teaching Hospitals and its Born in Bradford project, and Bradford City Council. These exceptional partners will work with us on our research journey to bring about a step-change in how cultural data is gathered and used to influence positive social change.

该项目背后的理由是，文化数据集目前处于发展状态较差，而不是适合用途。正如许多学者，文化工作者，资助者和政策制定者所观察到的那样，文化数据不完整，分散且不一致。没有关于如何收集数据，甚至没有关于要收集哪种数据的协议协议，也没有标准化的数据管理方法。这意味着目前尚未为文化部门提供的所有数据进行交叉分析，这使得很难评估并提供有关整个文化部门的绩效和影响的证据。这使得该部门受到公众，一些地方议会甚至政府的赞赏，因此非常容易受到现任Covid-19危机等财务和经济危机的公共资金削减。该探索性项目的核心目的是共同开发一种适合的用途混合方法文化评估框架，该框架将大型数据集的见解与柔软的定性数据结合在一起，以捕获生产和消费文化的人的生活经验，例如艺术家，策展人和观众。我们希望通过开发一个新的战略网络来实现这一目标，以确定和测试上述问题的可能解决方案，但通过一系列的咨询和讨论面对面和/或通过网络研讨会进行了讨论。该网络将包括关键数据，政策和文化部门利益相关者，包括英国政府的数字，文化，媒体和体育部（DCMS）以及许多致力于制定更强大的数据标准和协议的国家文化组织以及广泛的国家文化组织通过共享数据并将其开放研究来促进一种更加联合的文化影响和评估方法。该项目的次要目标是塑造文化决策，并因此为一般开发公共政策的方式提供信息。我们认为，目前，公共政策与旨在受益的人民和地点相距太远，这过于依赖于未能讲述文化部门对社会影响的令人信服的故事的数字。因此，我们希望证明，一种更加联合和以人为中心的方法来评估文化对个人和社区的影响将产生更可靠和可信的数据，以反映不同人和不同人和的特定方式捕获影响体验文化。我们将通过设计布拉德福德的全面案例研究来测试新兴数据和评估框架。我们之所以选择布拉德福德，本质上是因为该城市动员于2025年申请英国文化城市，作为这项准备的一部分，它正在进行详细的需求分析，需要将文化数据与其他人口统计学和健康数据的来源进行复杂的合并。由城市。因此，我们与布拉德福德的互动将是相互信息的。为了实现我们的目标，该项目汇集了一个由学术和文化部门专家组成的专家团队。总的来说，我们的研究人员在研究方法，文化管理和评估，政策参与和发展以及数据管理和分析方面具有丰富的经验。我们的部门合作伙伴包括大英图书馆，泰特和国家历史博物馆等世界领先的文化组织；英国艺术委员会和历史悠久的英格兰等国家文化资助者；专家文化数据分析师在内，包括观众机构和Mycake；以及包括布拉德福德2025年的重要区域合作伙伴，布拉德福德教学医院及其出生于布拉德福德项目和布拉德福德市议会。这些杰出的合作伙伴将与我们合作，在我们的研究旅程中，对如何收集文化数据并用来影响积极的社会变革进行逐步改变。