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Liverpool’s leading visual arts organisations would like to find out about its audiences and how they engage with art in public spaces and digital art.
This collaboration of organisations wishes to appoint a consultancy with relevant expertise to conduct this national pilot evaluation project, funded by Arts Council England.
Immediate start with work to be completed by April 2009. Contract value in the region of £22,500.
To find out more, and to apply please download the full tender brief or visit the following webpage:
www.visualartsinliverpool.info/forum/
Deadline for submissions is Monday, 18 August (interviews will be held w/c 25 August).
We are pleased to announce that Impacts 08 will jointly host the latest in Arts Research Digest’s series of interactive events, ‘The Big Question: The Changing Role of Research in Bidding for, and Measuring the Impact of, Large-Scale Cultural Events’, on Thursday, 23 October 2008, 9.15am-4pm, at The Holiday Inn, Lime Street, Liverpool, L1 1NQ.
The event will be chaired by Dr Sara Selwood, with guest speakers including Sir Bob Scott, leader of Liverpool’s bid to be European Capital of Culture; Dr Beatriz Garcia, Director Impacts 08; John Gold, Professor of Urban Historical Geography, Maggie Gold, Senior Lecturer, Arts and Heritage Management; Stella Hall, Creative Director, Culture 10, and John Kennedy, former Director of Cork, European Capital of Culture. (Further speakers to be announced.)
‘The Big Question’ is a rare opportunity for just 80 participants with an interest in large-scale events and research to come together to share their experience of commissioning and using research to bid for and evaluate big events, ask questions of others with more (or different) experience, and look at ways in which our use of research in this context is changing. The event will combine short, stimulating presentations, questions and answers, panel discussions and facilitated discussion groups. All participants will receive in advance a copy of a literature review of research from the past 10-15 years on the impact of large-scale cultural events, commissioned from the Impacts 08 team.
(The event will be preceded by an informal networking evening at 6pm on 22 October, also at the Holiday Inn.)
Registration
Arts Research Digest subscribers can attend both the networking session and the full day for £75. Non-subscribers can attend both sessions for £100. Non-subscribers can take out a new subscription to the Digest and attend both sessions for £140, representing a saving of nearly 50% on a year’s subscription.
Contact the Arts Research Digest office at enquiries@arts-research-digest.com to register or for further information. A copy of the booking form can also be downloaded here (file size 3Mb). This event is limited to 80 participants on a first-come, first-served basis.
Please find below registration details for HIA08, the 9th International Health Impact Assessment Conference, to be held at the Marriott Hotel, Liverpool. The Conference runs on Thursday and Friday 9th/10th October, with additional pre-conference workshops on Wednesday 8th October, to be held at Blackburne House, Liverpool.
Conference website: www.profbriefings.co.uk/hia08
This conference will provide an international forum to debate and discuss a wide range of perspectives in Health Impact Assessment and to explore the role of HIA across a range of sectors. It will:
- Provide practical opportunities to increase knowledge and understanding of HIA
- Showcase HIA work being undertaken in the UK and Ireland and internationally
- Consider and demonstrate the evidence for the effectiveness of HIA
- Provide opportunities to network with international delegates and speakers
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS WILL INCLUDE:
Rt Hon Dawn Primarolo MP, Minister of State for Public Health, UK
Decharut Sukkumnoed, Health Systems Research Institute, Thailand
Liz Harris, University of New South Wales, Australia
Margaret Whitehead, University of Liverpool, UK
CONFERENCE THEMES WILL INCLUDE: HIA and sustainable well-being; Well-being impact assessment; Spirituality in HIA; Strategic environmental assessment; Healthy urban planning; Quantification in HIA; HIA methodology; Capacity building and quality assurance; Looking forward to the future
The conference is organised by IMPACT at the University of Liverpool, and administered by: Professional Briefings, 37 Star Street, Ware, Hertfordshire SG12 7AA tel: 01920 487672 fax: 01920 462730 email: bookings@profbriefings.co.uk
CHORD (the Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution) invites participants to an international conference devoted to exploring the historical dimensions of ‘High Streets’. Sessions include: Competition for the high street; City spaces and locations; Specialist streets; Development and re-development; Urban change; City spaces and their users; The high street and consumers; Design and architecture; Exteriors and displays; The future?; Planning and policy; Shopping spaces.
More information, including provisional programme, abstracts and registration information, are available at:
The conference will take place at Priorslee Hall, a grade II listed building located in the University of Wolverhampton’s Telford Campus.
Conference fee : £60 (both days), £40 (one day only), £30 (pg student). Accommodation: B&B at Telford campus hall of residence, en-suite single rooms for night of 10 September is £20. Conference dinner on 10 September: £15. Bursaries covering the cost of fees, accommodation and dinner may be available, on a refund basis, for delegates unable to obtain institutional funding.
For further information, please contact: Dr Laura Ugolini, HAGRI/HLSS, Room MC233, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, WV1 1SB, UK. E-mail: L.Ugolini@wlv.ac.uk Tel.: 01902 321890
Cultural Tourism is one of the most important and rapidly expanding economic and social phenomena of the contemporary world. The Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC) at Leeds Metropolitan University is a global leader in research and education regarding tourism and its relationships to culture(s).
The MA Cultural Tourism offers:
- An interdisciplinary and international perspective on tourism and culture allowing you to develop an informed position in contemporary theoretical debates and applied policy programmes.
- A research led programme based upon the extensive experience and international work of the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change.
- Excellent links with regional, national and international organisations working in the tourism and culture field.
- The opportunity to work on a ‘live’ case study relating to the cultural sector where you will be able to develop your own interests and skills.
- The opportunity for you to develop your research and analytical skills which will equip you for future leadership roles in the diverse and dynamic field of cultural tourism and/or develop your interests by undertaking a PhD at the prestigious Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change.
Leeds Metropolitan University has one of the largest groupings of tourism researchers in the world in the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change and the International Centre for Responsible Tourism.
Through course modules you will be able to study: The structures and dynamics of international tourism; the social practices and performances of tourists; international tourism policy; the relationships between tourism and concepts of modernity, globalisation and colonialism; tangible and intangible heritage and their management; the role of museums and the ways by which cultures are represented; festivals and cultural events; culture and regeneration; tourism as a means of intercultural dialogue.
Modules include: Tourism and Tourists; Cosmopolitanism and Cultures of Mobility; Researching Cultural Tourism; Representing and Displaying Culture; Managing Heritage; Tourism, Media and Cultural Flows; Tourism, Festivals and Cultural Events; Cultural Tourism Case Study
For further information and an application form please email to Dr Philip Long at culturaltourism@leedsmet.ac.uk. Or visit our website for further details: www.tourism-culture.com and follow postgraduate studies.
Connecting Academies of Hope: Creative Vistas and Critical Visions
Following the success of the first two CTS conferences, the third conference will be held in the beautiful and historic coastal city of Zadar, Croatia, once again hosted by the Socio-Spatial Analysis Group (Wageningen University, the Netherlands), the Welsh Centre for Tourism Research (University of Wales Institute, Cardiff), the Institute for Tourism, Zagreb and Venevent, Zagreb and the Auckland Institute of Technology, New Zealand.
Conference Aims:
- To reach out to networks in tourism and the social sciences which share the academy of hope ethos in order to share and cohere our critical projects.
- To advance tourism as a thriving interdisciplinary field of the social sciences.
- To explore the worldmaking power of tourism and to promote its study as a progressive force for engagement in and analysis of the global political and cultural economy.
- To provide a forum for research collaboration and the mentoring of emerging tourism researchers.
We welcome papers on the following themes: Tourism education & the academy; Tourism in the world; Tourism and identity; The cultural politics of research. All abstracts should be written in English and must be not more than 300 words in length. All submissions will be subject to a double-blind review and published in the refereed conference proceedings. There will be an additional range of post-conference publication opportunities.
Abstracts should be e-mailed to Dr Irena Ateljevic irena.ateljevic@wur.nl or Professor Nigel Morgan nmorgan@uwic.ac.uk and must include: title; author(s); affiliations; a summary of the research aims; approach and key arguments/findings. Abstracts to be submitted by 16 January 2009; full papers (max 5,000 words) and working papers (max 2,000 words) for conference proceedings: April 1st 2009.
