Cultural and creative industries: resources, funding, support and future
Culture and creativity are important parts of our economy, but resources, employment and provision are often fragmented, precarious and uneven. What needs to change?
Table of contents
Overview
Six different issues were identified under this topic.
Short articles have been written on these issues to help parliament identify what action it may wish to take. New articles will be added when they become available.
Articles
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Participation, diversity and inclusion in cultural and creative industries
UK creative industries can feature inequality and lack diversity. How can participation be increased?
Other topics identified by the scan
Several other topics were identified by contributors to the horizon scan. These topics may be explored in future research projects. Relevant parliamentary research briefings are linked:
- Sports: inclusion, safety and wellbeing: This topic identified several issues including:
- the safety of spectators at football matches and other major events, including the role of monitoring tools for spectator safety
- sporting integrity issues including corruption, discrimination, and doping
- gender and representation in sports, including women working in sports media, equality between male and female sports, diversity, and sporting categories labelled by gender
- the mental health of athletes and their wellbeing
- online hate in sport
- access to sporting facilities in the UK
- Media regulation, reform, and the future of media: This topic identified several issues including:
- the regulation of digital media in the future over current legislation, including on the splintering of content over streaming and traditional services, advertising by influencers, and social media platforms
- challenges to media, including maintaining high-quality programmes, competition from social media platforms, and maintaining plurality of opinion
- the future of public service media finance, scope, operations and governance
- social division driven by online culture, such as online misogyny
- the concentration of media ownership
- Creative industries, arts, media and music education: This topic identified several issues including:
- the role of inclusive music education on the learning and health of young people, including the use of creative residencies in schools, challenges for music education in schools, and the difficulties some young people have in accessing instruments and lessons
- the role of media literacy education in society, including formally in schools, and to address misinformation and disinformation
- the future of arts in education, with reference to the 2023 report on Creative Industries Sector Vision by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and the UK arts skills pipeline
- whether access to arts and culture should be a human right, including support for freelance workers to maintain arts and culture
- Participation in sports: This topic identified several issues including:
- access to sports through ‘socially just’ physical education, with an emphasis on enjoyment and public non-traditional sports
- the role that sports can have on public health, including how it may address reduced activity in motherhood, how it should be promoted, and the further evidence required for which sports benefit public health the most
- the role sports can play in the health of young people
- how technology can help increase physical activity, such as the use of VR
Acknowledgements
POST would like to thank consultation respondents and peer reviewers for kindly giving up their time to support this work, including:
- Professor Dave O’Brien, University of Manchester
- Dr Fiona Spotswood, University of Bristol
- Professor Anne Cronin, Lancaster University
- Dr Stuart McCallum, Royal Northern College of Music
- Professor David Horne, Royal Northern College of Music
- Dr Dan Gordon, Anglia Ruskin University
- Dr Shrehan Lynch, University of East London
- Dr Verity Postlethwaite, Loughborough University
- Caroline Westwood, Plymouth Marjon University
- Professor Wiebke Thormählen, Royal Northern College of Music
- Professor Jane Ginsborg, Royal Northern College of Music*
- Professor Richard Ogden, University of York
- Professor Nicholas Reyland, Royal Northern College of Music
- Professor Győző Molnár, University of Worcester
- Professor Peter Etchells, Bath Spa University
- Professor Ben Walmsley, University of Leeds
- Dr Dikaia Chatziefstathiou, Canterbury Christ Church University
- Professor Yuhei Inoue, Manchester Metropolitan University
- Professor Robin Sloan, Abertay University
- Professor Gillian Doyle, University of Glasgow
- Dr Nicôle Meehan, University of St Andrews
- Dr Michelle Phillips, Royal Northern College of Music
- Professor Jonathan Hardy, University of the Arts London
- Professor Stephen Felmingham, Arts University Plymouth
- Professor Katya Mileva, London South Bank University
- Professor Niki Bolton, Cardiff Metropolitan University
- Professor Lorna Woods, University of Essex
- Professor Susan Backhouse, Leeds Beckett University
- Dr Kaixiao Jiang, Liverpool Hope University
- Dr Amanda Hodgkinson, University of Suffolk
- Dr Patrick Duggan and Professor Donna Chambers, Northumbria University Newcastle
- Dr Jacob Johanssen, St Mary’s University
- Professor Natalie Fenton, Goldsmiths
- Professor Dominic Symonds, University of Lincoln
- Dr Stephen Partridge, University of Hertfordshire
- Dr Adam Bibbey, Oxford Brookes University
- Dr Vincent Miller, University of Kent
- Emily Woodruff, University of Warwick
- Dr Federico Luzzi, University of Aberdeen
- Professor Jonathan Sapsed, Newcastle University
*denotes people and organisations who acted as external reviewers of the briefing.
