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• Audiences London
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Abstract:

Previous research into cultural consumption has been based on survey data.Whilst this is the only way to find out about cultural consumption across all parts of the population and in all genres, there are drawbacks to this approach. On the one hand there are some problems with respondents misrepresenting their behaviour due to the socially loaded nature of culture, and on the other the data lacks detail regarding the kind of event that they attended (commercial, subsidized, in a city centre or local venue, high-brow or popular) and their behaviour surrounding it (how much did they pay? How far did they travel? How many people attended with them? How many different venues did they attend?).

This project involves the secondary analysis of large-scale databases relating to consumption of the performing arts, made up of administrative data collected when tickets are sold. It will primarily look at data collected by performing arts organizations in London, but will also make comparisons with databases in other regions. It will combine this data with census and other publicly-available datasets, and use multivariate and latent class analysis to answer questions including: what are the best geodemographic and socio-economic predictors of arts attendance? Do these vary by region, artform, location of venue, "high art" vs populist work, or the number/diversity of performances available in a local region? Has this changed over time? Do some geodemographic classifications give better discrimination than others when analysing arts attendees?

Department:

Audiences London; Department of Geography & Geosciences, University of St Andrews

Duration:

Demographic indicators of cultural consumption I (March 2007- February 2008)

Demographic indicators of cultural consumption II (June 2008-May 2009)

Grant Type:

User Fellowship

Publications

Demographic indicators of cultural consumption II

Brook, O., Boyle, P. and Flowerdew, R. (2010) Geographic analysis of cultural consumption, In Stillwell, J., Norman, P., Thomas, C. and Surridge, P. (eds.) Spatial and Social Disparities Understanding Population Trends and Processes Volume 2, Springer, Dordrecht.

Brook, O., Boyle, P. and Flowerdew, R. (2010) Who uses cultural facilities? An ecological model of administrative data for performing arts venues in London, submitted to Environment and Planning A

Orian Brook, Paul Boyle and Robin Flowerdew's Research Findings

Brook, O., Boyle, P. and Flowerdew, R. (2010) Chapter in Stillwell, J., Norman, P., Thomas, C. and Surridge, P. (eds.) Spatial and Social Disparities Understanding Population Trends and Processes Volume 2, Springer, Dordrecht, forthcoming.

Brook, O., Boyle, P. and Flowerdew, R. (Forthcoming) Modelling attendance at cultural events in London, to be submitted to Environment and Planning A.

Brook, O., Boyle, P. and Flowerdew, R. (Forthcoming) Cultural consumption in London, to be submitted to Cultural Trends.

Brook, O., Boyle, P. and Flowerdew, R. (Forthcoming) Regional variations in cultural consumption, to be submitted to Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy.

Presentations

Demographic indicators of cultural consumption II

Brook, O. (Forthcoming) Cultural consumption in London, Presentation to Arts Council England staff.

Brook, O. (Forthcoming) Cultural consumption in London, Presentation to arts organisations in London as part of Audiences London's events programme.

Boyle, P., Flowerdew, R. and Brook, O. (2009) Demographic Indicators of Cultural Consumption (Stage II), Presentation at the UPTAP workshop, Leeds University, 24th March

Brook, O. (2008) Demographic indicators of cultural consumption, British Society for Population Studies annual conference, Manchester, 10-12 September 2008

Brook, O. (2008) Demographic indicators of cultural consumption, Research Methods Festival, Oxford, July.

Brook, O. (2008) Rethinking drivers of cultural consumption, Arts Marketing Association annual conference, Newcastle, 20 July.

Demographic indicators of cultural consumption I

Brook, O. (2008) New approaches to understanding audience demographics and accessibility to culture, Presentation to the Arts Council England Research Department, 28 March.

Brook, O. (2008) Demographic indicators of cultural consumption, presentation at the UPTAP Workshop, Leeds, 18 March.

Brook, O. (2007) "New Approaches to Understanding Audience Demographics and Accessibility to Culture." Network Summit (conference of UK audience development agencies), Belfast, 4 December 2007

Brook, O. (2007) Demographic indicators of cultural consumption. Presentation to Population, Health and Welfare Research Group, University of St Andrews, 10 October.

Brook, O. (2007) Social stratification and cultural consumption: Policy implications of recent research, Seminar, City University, 3 April.

Boyle, P., and Brook, O. (2007) Demographic Indicators of Cultural Consumption, Presentation at the UPTAP workshop, Leeds University, 23 March

 

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