18th August, 2021

Finding a Place in the Future Read more

Let me welcome you back to reflect on a piece of work that started centuries ago even if my part in it surfaced during recent decades and more specifically has called to you through The Culture Capital Exchange in these past months. A window was opened for me by TCCE at the end of May. […]

Pauline Rutter

18th August, 2021

Levelling Up: what does it mean for universities? Read more

‘Levelling up’ remains something of a mystery. The R&D place strategy might eventually provide more information on how the twin elements of both the Industrial Strategy and the ‘Build Back Better’ strategy of R&D growth and regional economic development would work together. The PMs (rather thin) speech of 13 July identified two dimensions to ‘levelling […]

Dr Mark Gray Pro-Vice Chancellor & Director, Knowledge Transfer, Middlesex University

2nd July, 2021

Them and Us, Or the perception of risk in university strategies for REF and practice-based research Read more

In my role at York St John University, I have supported its new UoA32 Art and Design submission from 2015-2021. The inclusion of practice within the UKRI’s REF regulations signals in black and white, loud and clear under Panel D’s Criteria and Working Methods, that research can be legitimately generated through a broad range of […]

Vanessa Corby, Associate Professor Theory, History, and Practice of Fine Art at York St John University, UK

27th May, 2021

Thinking about Leadership Now Read more

Over the last few months I have spent some time thinking; thinking on my own and thinking with other people. This all started with a blog I did for TCCE; I wanted to think about what might be coming next. I said “things are very hard at the moment and things are changing. The world […]

Dr Rebekka Kill, TCCE Strategic Development Associate, Academic Consultant and Coach

18th May, 2021

A Time of Reckoning for Equality and Diversity Read more

This short piece is the preamble to a longer hypothetical interpretation of UKRIs 2020 guidance on nominating bodies for REF 2021 panel membership[1]. However, it could have been a creative reflection on any one of a number of similar documents urgently in need of reframing within an equity imperative. Without this, how can full accountability […]

Pauline Rutter – Creative Response to the TCCE Equity and Social Justice in HE Research series April 2021

29th April, 2021

When Journalism Meets Theatre Read more

It’s a truism to say that there’s a crisis in confidence around our news media. We know – and this has accelerated since the pandemic – that people trust news organisations less and in some cases are actively avoiding news. Yet at the same time, as the social media environment throws up more fake news […]

Glenda Cooper