Ben Walmsley
Biographic Data
| ID | 1617426 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben Walmsley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben |
| FAMILY NAME | Walmsley |
| SIGNATURE | BEN WALMSLEY |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4536-5180 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Cultural policy and cultural democracy
The mutability of cultural value
The contemporary cultural value debate has been broadly UK-driven, albeit with European and international dimensions. However, the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent focus on sector working conditions has raised urgent questions about the social role and impact of the arts. Starting from the premise that questions of cultural value are subjective, political, and highly contextualised, this article contextualises the debate on cultural value wit…
Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts
Audience Engagement in the Performing Arts
Reflections on Audience Data and Research
Dr Anna Upchurch
The Romanticization of Charismatic Leadership in the Arts
This inter-disciplinary article focuses on the role, significance, and impact of charisma in cultural leadership. It brings together fresh empirical data with a critical review of the literature to investigate the role of charisma in the operation, reputation, and strategic success of arts organizations. For the first time, this article synthesizes a diverse range of literature from sociology, psychology, political science, management, and leader…
Deep hanging out in the arts
This article presents the findings of an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project carried out from September 2013 to March 2014 by five researchers at the University of Leeds (UK), who paired off with five audience-participants and engaged in a process of ‘deep hanging out’ at events curated as part of Leeds’ annual LoveArts festival. As part of AHRC’s Cultural Value project, the overarching aim of the research was to produce a …
From arts marketing to audience enrichment
There remains a significant gap in the scholarly literature on the processes, benefits and challenges of digital engagement in the arts. This article presents and critically analyses the findings of one of the largest mixed-methods studies ever conducted into audience engagement with dance. Based on a rigorous mixed-methods approach comprising participant and audience surveys, discussion groups, depth interviews, netnography and content analysis …
Audience engagement and the role of arts talk in the digital era
Audience engagement and the role of arts talk in the digital era." Cultural Trends, 24(4), pp. 322–323
Entertainment management
Divided into 15 chapters, this book provides a comprehensive coverage of entertainment management. It focuses in particular on key areas of enquiry, including the environment of entertainment, marketing entertainment, public relations and mass media, managing live events, human resource and artist management, creativity and business, entertainment law, performance and financial management, consultancy, and visitor attractions. The chapters are wr…
A reflective perspective on the challenges facing research-led teaching in the performing and creative arts
This article provides a reflective perspective on the role that research-led teaching plays in the development of future arts workers in higher education. It explores the challenges faced by lecturers developing curricula in the performing and creative arts and argues that the increasing focus on employability can conflict with universities’ traditional aim of developing conceptual and critical thinkers. The article charges that the UK’s higher e…
Co-creating theatre
This article investigates the development, purpose and value of co-creation in theatre. Through a qualitative analysis of a festival of new work at West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds, it explores the levers and barriers to participatory engagement and evaluates the phenomenon of co-creation from the comparative perspective of theatre producers and audiences. The rising trend of co-creation reflects the evolving role of the audience in the creative…
Whose value is it anyway? A neo-institutionalist approach to articulating and evaluating artistic value
The neo-liberal agenda that has dominated the creative industries for the past few decades has engendered a range of problems for artists, arts managers and policy-makers. This article critiques the application of commercial strategic management and marketing tools, theory and principles to arts and cultural organizations and proposes alternative approaches to assist these organizations in creating, identifying and evaluating value on their own t…
Towards a balanced scorecard
This article provides a critical analysis of the methods employed in the Culture and Sport Evidence (CASE) programme. Based on a comprehensive review of the arts management and cultural policy literature, it contests recent claims that the cultural sector should state its value in the economic language of policy appraisal and evaluation (O'Brien, 2010 O'Brien, D. 2010. Measuring the value of culture: A report to the Department for Culture Media a…
Key Issues in the Arts and Entertainment Industry
From arts marketing to audience enrichment
There remains a significant gap in the scholarly literature on the processes, benefits and challenges of digital engagement in the arts. This article presents and critically analyses the findings of one of the largest mixed-methods studies ever conducted into audience engagement with dance. Based on a rigorous mixed-methods approach comprising participant and audience surveys, discussion groups, depth interviews, netnography and content analysis …
Co-creating theatre
This article investigates the development, purpose and value of co-creation in theatre. Through a qualitative analysis of a festival of new work at West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds, it explores the levers and barriers to participatory engagement and evaluates the phenomenon of co-creation from the comparative perspective of theatre producers and audiences. The rising trend of co-creation reflects the evolving role of the audience in the creative…
Deep hanging out in the arts
This article presents the findings of an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project carried out from September 2013 to March 2014 by five researchers at the University of Leeds (UK), who paired off with five audience-participants and engaged in a process of ‘deep hanging out’ at events curated as part of Leeds’ annual LoveArts festival. As part of AHRC’s Cultural Value project, the overarching aim of the research was to produce a …
Towards a balanced scorecard
This article provides a critical analysis of the methods employed in the Culture and Sport Evidence (CASE) programme. Based on a comprehensive review of the arts management and cultural policy literature, it contests recent claims that the cultural sector should state its value in the economic language of policy appraisal and evaluation (O'Brien, 2010 O'Brien, D. 2010. Measuring the value of culture: A report to the Department for Culture Media a…
A reflective perspective on the challenges facing research-led teaching in the performing and creative arts
This article provides a reflective perspective on the role that research-led teaching plays in the development of future arts workers in higher education. It explores the challenges faced by lecturers developing curricula in the performing and creative arts and argues that the increasing focus on employability can conflict with universities’ traditional aim of developing conceptual and critical thinkers. The article charges that the UK’s higher e…
The mutability of cultural value
The contemporary cultural value debate has been broadly UK-driven, albeit with European and international dimensions. However, the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent focus on sector working conditions has raised urgent questions about the social role and impact of the arts. Starting from the premise that questions of cultural value are subjective, political, and highly contextualised, this article contextualises the debate on cultural value wit…
Reflections on Audience Data and Research
Key Issues in the Arts and Entertainment Industry
Whose value is it anyway? A neo-institutionalist approach to articulating and evaluating artistic value
The neo-liberal agenda that has dominated the creative industries for the past few decades has engendered a range of problems for artists, arts managers and policy-makers. This article critiques the application of commercial strategic management and marketing tools, theory and principles to arts and cultural organizations and proposes alternative approaches to assist these organizations in creating, identifying and evaluating value on their own t…
Towards a balanced scorecard
This article provides a critical analysis of the methods employed in the Culture and Sport Evidence (CASE) programme. Based on a comprehensive review of the arts management and cultural policy literature, it contests recent claims that the cultural sector should state its value in the economic language of policy appraisal and evaluation (O'Brien, 2010 O'Brien, D. 2010. Measuring the value of culture: A report to the Department for Culture Media a…
A reflective perspective on the challenges facing research-led teaching in the performing and creative arts
This article provides a reflective perspective on the role that research-led teaching plays in the development of future arts workers in higher education. It explores the challenges faced by lecturers developing curricula in the performing and creative arts and argues that the increasing focus on employability can conflict with universities’ traditional aim of developing conceptual and critical thinkers. The article charges that the UK’s higher e…
Co-creating theatre
This article investigates the development, purpose and value of co-creation in theatre. Through a qualitative analysis of a festival of new work at West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds, it explores the levers and barriers to participatory engagement and evaluates the phenomenon of co-creation from the comparative perspective of theatre producers and audiences. The rising trend of co-creation reflects the evolving role of the audience in the creative…
Entertainment management
Divided into 15 chapters, this book provides a comprehensive coverage of entertainment management. It focuses in particular on key areas of enquiry, including the environment of entertainment, marketing entertainment, public relations and mass media, managing live events, human resource and artist management, creativity and business, entertainment law, performance and financial management, consultancy, and visitor attractions. The chapters are wr…
Audience engagement and the role of arts talk in the digital era
Audience engagement and the role of arts talk in the digital era." Cultural Trends, 24(4), pp. 322–323
The Romanticization of Charismatic Leadership in the Arts
This inter-disciplinary article focuses on the role, significance, and impact of charisma in cultural leadership. It brings together fresh empirical data with a critical review of the literature to investigate the role of charisma in the operation, reputation, and strategic success of arts organizations. For the first time, this article synthesizes a diverse range of literature from sociology, psychology, political science, management, and leader…
Deep hanging out in the arts
This article presents the findings of an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project carried out from September 2013 to March 2014 by five researchers at the University of Leeds (UK), who paired off with five audience-participants and engaged in a process of ‘deep hanging out’ at events curated as part of Leeds’ annual LoveArts festival. As part of AHRC’s Cultural Value project, the overarching aim of the research was to produce a …
From arts marketing to audience enrichment
There remains a significant gap in the scholarly literature on the processes, benefits and challenges of digital engagement in the arts. This article presents and critically analyses the findings of one of the largest mixed-methods studies ever conducted into audience engagement with dance. Based on a rigorous mixed-methods approach comprising participant and audience surveys, discussion groups, depth interviews, netnography and content analysis …
Dr Anna Upchurch
Audience Engagement in the Performing Arts
Reflections on Audience Data and Research
Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts
The mutability of cultural value
The contemporary cultural value debate has been broadly UK-driven, albeit with European and international dimensions. However, the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent focus on sector working conditions has raised urgent questions about the social role and impact of the arts. Starting from the premise that questions of cultural value are subjective, political, and highly contextualised, this article contextualises the debate on cultural value wit…
Cultural policy and cultural democracy
Political science (12 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · The arts (10 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Visual arts (7 works) · Business (5 works) · Law (5 works)