Centre for Cultural Policy Research

CCPR's research into cultural business support was the topic of an end-of-project seminar held on 3 March at the University of Glasgow. This concluded a one-year ethnographic study, funded by the AHRC, of how Glasgow-based Cultural Enterprise Office (CEO) operates, with a special focus on its relations with micro-businesses and its place in the wider Scottish support agency landscape. Philip Schlesinger, Melanie Selfe and Ealasaid Munro presented the project's findings. Responses came from an international panel of cultural agency leaders, with Danish, Norwegian and US perspectives in play. Reflections on being researched were presented by CEO's director, Deborah Keogh, its chair, film producer Bob Last, and Fiona Pilgrim, professional development manager. Aside from discussing cultural agency practices in a comparative light, the seminar discussed questions of knowledge exchange and impact and their place in academic research. The participants came from other UK and overseas cultural bodies and research centres and The Scottish Government.

To access the programme and list of attendees, click here.‌

First published: 6 March 2014