Creative and Heritage Industries Research Theme

Description

The theme reflects existing areas of excellence across arts, humanities, design, and media, plus new capabilities arising from developments in creative technologies, the enhanced digitalisation of society, and the use of creative leadership and technologies in tackling societal challenges.

The cross-cutting priorities for the theme are:

• Practice and enterprise, which recognises De Montfort University’s excellence in practice research and recreative methods
• Inclusion and empowerment in creative and heritage industries, which underpins the university’s strategic goal as an empowering university
• Creative performance and creative design, which reflects the university’s national leadership in areas of arts, design, media and heritage, and its growing reputation in creative technologies
• Cultural regeneration, which reflects the university’s international excellence in civic engagement and placemaking
• Next generation research, with agility to respond to new opportunities and building capability for future research inquiry in creative and heritage industries.

Members’ vision is to work strategically and collaboratively, building on the theme’s members existing strengths while at the same time, working towards joint goals, which address new societal challenges, and further develop people and places.

The theme embraces creativity, culture and heritage, and encompasses diverse aspects of communication, enrichment and wellbeing, inclusion and empowerment, evidence and decision making, sustainability, and technologies. These characteristics provide the foundation on which the theme will deliver benefit to society. The key principles of the theme’s strategy are:

1. Working with stakeholders to inform and apply its research.
2. Ensuring that members’ knowledge makes a difference, by using research to change practice.
3. Developing mutually beneficial and enduring partnerships to co-create research.
4. Developing internationally significant research that tackles societal challenges.

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De Montfort University
Leicester

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