CFP: Workshop "Audience Research in the Arts " University of Sheffield
Audience Research in the Arts Conference
The University of Sheffield
3–5th July 2019
Deadline: 25th January 2019
REMINDER OF GENERAL CALL FOR PAPERS (Deadline: 7th January 2019; for more details please follow link.)
PLUS
ANNOUNCEMENT OF POSTGRADUATE AND EARLY CAREER RESEARCHER MORNING -- Wed 3rd July 2019, 9am-1pm, The University of Sheffield
Sheffield Performer and Audience Research Centre (SPARC) is hosting a conference in partnership with the International Network for Audience Research in the Performing Arts (iNARPA), The Audience Agency, Routledge, The University of Leeds and Deakin University, to bring together researchers and industry professionals who investigate audience engagement with the arts. This conference comes at the culmination of two substantive contributions to the field of audience research at The University of Sheffield; the Understanding Audiences for the Contemporary Arts (UACA) study and the Modern Fairies project. The conference will also celebrate the publication of a Cultural Trends special double issue on
‘Audience Data and Research’ and launch a sector-facing handbook from the UACA project. It will feature sharing sessions from the two research projects and papers from contributors to the special issue.
While postgraduate and early career researchers are welcome to submit to and attend the main conference (see above link for the main CFP), this session will provide a chance for extended peer feedback and discussion. Our postgraduate and early career researcher morning will consist of:
9-11am papers from postgraduate and early career researchers. Papers should be 12-15 minutes to provide plenty of opportunity for feedback.
11-1pm workshop with members of the Cultural Trends Editorial Board and representative from Taylor &Francis: an informal session offering advice and discussion on how to develop writing for publication in Cultural Trends, how to pitch ideas to sector publications such as Arts Professional, and open access publishing.
Attendance at the workshop is not dependent on giving a paper in the first session. Details on how to attend will be announced in due course.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Postgraduate students and early career researchers are encourages to submit 12-15 minute papers for the morning panels. Contributors are encouraged to present their work to a broad audience, so it can be readily understood by industry professionals, arts practitioners, policy-makers and the general public, as well as academics. Proposals are invited on the following themes:
● Considerations of how audiences find meaning in the works that they see, and the relationship this has to the artists’ intended meaning
● Artist and audience communication, and ways in which the audience can feed into the creative process
● The place of cultural intermediaries (which could be artists or arts managers) in shaping audience experience
● Reflections on collaborative audience research, considering the role of partners and gatekeepers, means of knowledge exchange and collaborative learning.
● Innovative or emerging audience research methodologies, how can we make our research accessible and meaningful to participants?
● How audience research might better drive sectoral change and impact on arts policy
Papers addressing these themes are especially welcome, but the committee will consider any submissions relating to audience research and arts audiences today.
Please send proposals to sparc@sheffield.ac.uk including: an abstract (250 words), your name, institutional affiliation (if any), email address, short biography (100 words) and any special AV requirements.