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Creativity, industry and devolved responsibility: how local industrial strategies can support levelling up

Abigail Gilmore By Abigail Gilmore Filed Under: All posts, Growth and Inclusion, Levelling up Posted: July 21, 2022

Local creative and cultural industries strategies can play a key role in devolution policy, and understanding the differences and nuances of local industrial strategies helps inform policymakers looking at cultural and creative industries-led ‘levelling up’. Ultimately, policy should be shaped by local strategy and regional identity as much as national goals. This blog raises policy […]

Tagged With: Arts & Culture, Business Energy & Industry, devolution, economy, GMCA, inclusive growth, Levelling Up, local government, media

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The Space to Thrive: Public parks and everyday participation

Abigail Gilmore By Abigail Gilmore Filed Under: Urban Posted: March 9, 2017

 To celebrate the launch of the Manchester Urban Institute, and to highlight  the expertise of its academics in terms of urban research, MUI have joined up with Policy@Manchester to deliver a series of blogs focused on  the Manchester urban area. To safeguard the future of our cherished public parks then communities and institutions must think […]

Tagged With: everyday participation, green spaces, Manchester, MUI

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National cultural policy, rebalancing participation?

Abigail Gilmore By Abigail Gilmore Filed Under: All posts Posted: January 17, 2017

Abigail Gilmore is a Co-investigator on the Arts and Humanities Research Council project ‘Understanding Everyday Participation – Articulating Cultural Values’. Along with fellow Co-Investigator, Dr. Lisanne Gibson, University of Leicester, she contributed oral evidence to the Countries of Culture Inquiry. Here she examines where the ‘buck stops’ for national policies tasked with redistributing arts funding, […]

Tagged With: arts and culture, arts funding, cultural policy, participation

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Why arts and cultural policy matter in the devolution debate

Abigail Gilmore By Abigail Gilmore Filed Under: Devo, Urban Posted: April 20, 2016

Abi Gilmore looks at why policy-making for the arts and culture is important when considering the implementation and impact of the devolution agenda in Greater Manchester. Cultural policy is often an afterthought, frequently side-lined by other policy debates on health, housing and crime reduction. When decision-making for the arts makes the news, it is usually […]

Tagged With: arts and culture, cultural policy, devolution, DevoManc, Northern Powerhouse

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