Sara Selwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 5635448 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Selwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Selwood |
| SIGNATURE | SELWOOD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mainstreaming social sciences expertise in UK environment policy and practice organisations: Retrospect and prospect
Building upon the concept of mainstreaming social sciences within conservation, we consider their mainstreaming, and so integration, within UK environment policy and practice (EPP) organisations. The paper responds to increasing calls to recognise the essential role of social sciences in addressing global environmental crises across policy, practice and research. An actor-oriented approach was deployed, producing empirical information from a mult…
Social Sciences and the Cultural Sector in England: A Commentary on the Literature
Drawing on a literature review of over two hundred items, this commentary describes what drove the English cultural sector’s interest in the social sciences from the 1980s, and the social sciences’ interest in the cultural sector. The social sciences offered the cultural sector the means to evidence and advocate its assertions of social and economic impact in line with government requirements. Their economic valuations and sociological analyses o…
Exhibition Reviews
Hogarth: Place and Progress , Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, 9 October 2019 – 5 January 2020. Place, Nations, Generations, Beings: 200 Years of Indigenous North American Art , Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, 1 November 2019–28 February 2021
A possible teleology of cultural sector data in England
In March 2019, Arts Council England (ACE), an official statistics producer, started collecting a new set of data from its National Portfolio Organisations intended to reveal whether those organizations’ intentions correlate with the perceptions of their peers and audiences. In a world dominated by quantitative data, the Impact and Insight Toolkit addresses a perceived lacuna and marks a substantial investment in qualitative metrics. ACE also expe…
Looking back: Understanding visits to museums in the UK and beyond since the nineteenth century
This editorial introduces the second of two special issues of Cultural Trends dedicated to identifying and interpreting numbers of visits to museums since the nineteenth century. The first exclusively considered UK museums – English museums, in particular. The present issue adds to that coverage of museum visiting in England, Wales and Scotland, as well as addressing visiting in France, Australia and New Zealand. The editorial reflects on the tra…
Museums for the many? Rhetorical optimism and the failure of sustained political will at three London government-funded museums – then and now
This article contends that there are considerable similarities between nineteenth- and twenty-first-century aspirations for museums – not least, in respect to promises of “museums for the many”. Despite contemporary policy makers of different political allegiances embracing similar rhetorics, in general they appear to have had little interest in reflecting on previous realities. This article focuses on attendances at three national museums, in pa…
Looking back: Understanding visits to museums in the UK since the nineteenth century
Multiple Perspectives on Culture Counts
The measurement of performance and impact is fundamental to Cultural Trends. The journal champions the generation of better information on the cultural and creative sectors and its widespread disse
Multiple Perspectives on the Trump Administration's attitude to Cultural Funding
Response
Measuring quality in the cultural sector: The Manchester Metrics pilot: findings and lessons learned
Measuring Quality in the cultural sector reports on the second stage of the Manchester Metrics pilot – a three stage project, which began in April 2012 and is due to run until 2018. Bunting and Kne
Cultural Trends election special
Four observations on The Arts (2015) by Jeremy Corbyn
div_MCaPA
Policy reviews
In search of cultural policy
Since May 2010, when the new Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition government came to power in England, relatively few cultural policy imperatives have been issued. What there have been are reduc
John Myerscough, The economic importance of the arts in Britain
John Myerscough, The economic importance of the arts in Britain ." International Journal of Cultural Policy, 16(1), pp. 74–75
Centre/periphery: Devolution/federalism: new trends in cultural policy
Cultural Trends 73/74 is a special double issue. It contains written versions of papers given at the journal's second one-day international conference, held at City University, London, in October 2
Creativity and innovation in the cultural economy
Future uncertain: Arts council England's vision for the future of the contemporary visual arts
A Part to Play: The academic contribution to the development of cultural policy in England
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) was established within months of Labour’s 1997 Labour Party. 1997. Create the Future: A Strategy for Cultural Policy, Arts and the Creative Economy, Labour Party: London. [Google Scholar] election victory. From the outset, it intended to ensure the effective delivery of government objectives across its sectors. DCMS’s modus operandi was predicated on the assumption that there is an implicit, high…
What difference do museums make? Producing evidence on the impact of museums
The politics of data collection: Gathering, analysing and using data about the subsidised cultural sector in England
The gathering of ‘evidence’ about the impact of the sector has assumed centre stage in the management of the subsidised cultural sector in England. It is closely associated with an extension of government control over the sector, and the tendency to value culture for its ‘impact’ rather than its intrinsic value. This chapter of Cultural Trends considers what has been driving data collection, and how valuable its pursuit has actually been. While n…
The Economic Value of Historic Parks and Gardens
Access, efficiency and excellence: Measuring non‐economic performance in the English subsidised cultural sector
The requirement to evaluate policies and measure performance in the publicly funded cultural sector in the UK has become increasingly pressing since the early 1980s. This chapter reviews the various attempts to do that. It demonstrates how economic and other quantifiable measures have tended to be emphasised whereas the qualitative aspects of cultural provision, which are more difficult to measure, have tended to be neglected. The chapter present…
Museums in the U.K.: Some Evidence on Scale and Activities
The politics of data collection: Gathering, analysing and using data about the subsidised cultural sector in England
The gathering of ‘evidence’ about the impact of the sector has assumed centre stage in the management of the subsidised cultural sector in England. It is closely associated with an extension of government control over the sector, and the tendency to value culture for its ‘impact’ rather than its intrinsic value. This chapter of Cultural Trends considers what has been driving data collection, and how valuable its pursuit has actually been. While n…
Access, efficiency and excellence: Measuring non‐economic performance in the English subsidised cultural sector
The requirement to evaluate policies and measure performance in the publicly funded cultural sector in the UK has become increasingly pressing since the early 1980s. This chapter reviews the various attempts to do that. It demonstrates how economic and other quantifiable measures have tended to be emphasised whereas the qualitative aspects of cultural provision, which are more difficult to measure, have tended to be neglected. The chapter present…
English cultural services: Government policy and local strategies
Looking back: Understanding visits to museums in the UK since the nineteenth century
Future uncertain: Arts council England's vision for the future of the contemporary visual arts
A Part to Play: The academic contribution to the development of cultural policy in England
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) was established within months of Labour’s 1997 Labour Party. 1997. Create the Future: A Strategy for Cultural Policy, Arts and the Creative Economy, Labour Party: London. [Google Scholar] election victory. From the outset, it intended to ensure the effective delivery of government objectives across its sectors. DCMS’s modus operandi was predicated on the assumption that there is an implicit, high…
Looking back: Understanding visits to museums in the UK and beyond since the nineteenth century
This editorial introduces the second of two special issues of Cultural Trends dedicated to identifying and interpreting numbers of visits to museums since the nineteenth century. The first exclusively considered UK museums – English museums, in particular. The present issue adds to that coverage of museum visiting in England, Wales and Scotland, as well as addressing visiting in France, Australia and New Zealand. The editorial reflects on the tra…
Museums for the many? Rhetorical optimism and the failure of sustained political will at three London government-funded museums – then and now
This article contends that there are considerable similarities between nineteenth- and twenty-first-century aspirations for museums – not least, in respect to promises of “museums for the many”. Despite contemporary policy makers of different political allegiances embracing similar rhetorics, in general they appear to have had little interest in reflecting on previous realities. This article focuses on attendances at three national museums, in pa…
A possible teleology of cultural sector data in England
In March 2019, Arts Council England (ACE), an official statistics producer, started collecting a new set of data from its National Portfolio Organisations intended to reveal whether those organizations’ intentions correlate with the perceptions of their peers and audiences. In a world dominated by quantitative data, the Impact and Insight Toolkit addresses a perceived lacuna and marks a substantial investment in qualitative metrics. ACE also expe…
Measuring quality in the cultural sector: The Manchester Metrics pilot: findings and lessons learned
Measuring Quality in the cultural sector reports on the second stage of the Manchester Metrics pilot – a three stage project, which began in April 2012 and is due to run until 2018. Bunting and Kne
Four observations on The Arts (2015) by Jeremy Corbyn
div_MCaPA
In search of cultural policy
Since May 2010, when the new Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition government came to power in England, relatively few cultural policy imperatives have been issued. What there have been are reduc
Museums, Heritage and the Culture Industry
Museums 2000: Politics, People, Professionals and Profit , edited by Patrick Boylan , London and New York: Routledge, 1992, 203 pp., £14.99 Shows of Force: Power, Politics and Ideology in Art Exhibitions by Timothy W. Luke , Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1992, 250 pp., £13.50 Making and Effacing Art: Modern American Art in a Culture of Museums by Philip Fisher , New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991, 276 pp., 37 b. & w. i…
Museums, galleries and the lottery
Museum and gallery statistics: The Domus database
Developing new circus in the UK
Museums in the U.K.: Some Evidence on Scale and Activities
Education provision in the subsidised cultural sector
English cultural services: Government policy and local strategies
Access, efficiency and excellence: Measuring non‐economic performance in the English subsidised cultural sector
The requirement to evaluate policies and measure performance in the publicly funded cultural sector in the UK has become increasingly pressing since the early 1980s. This chapter reviews the various attempts to do that. It demonstrates how economic and other quantifiable measures have tended to be emphasised whereas the qualitative aspects of cultural provision, which are more difficult to measure, have tended to be neglected. The chapter present…
The Economic Value of Historic Parks and Gardens
What difference do museums make? Producing evidence on the impact of museums
The politics of data collection: Gathering, analysing and using data about the subsidised cultural sector in England
The gathering of ‘evidence’ about the impact of the sector has assumed centre stage in the management of the subsidised cultural sector in England. It is closely associated with an extension of government control over the sector, and the tendency to value culture for its ‘impact’ rather than its intrinsic value. This chapter of Cultural Trends considers what has been driving data collection, and how valuable its pursuit has actually been. While n…
A Part to Play: The academic contribution to the development of cultural policy in England
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) was established within months of Labour’s 1997 Labour Party. 1997. Create the Future: A Strategy for Cultural Policy, Arts and the Creative Economy, Labour Party: London. [Google Scholar] election victory. From the outset, it intended to ensure the effective delivery of government objectives across its sectors. DCMS’s modus operandi was predicated on the assumption that there is an implicit, high…
Future uncertain: Arts council England's vision for the future of the contemporary visual arts
Creativity and innovation in the cultural economy
John Myerscough, The economic importance of the arts in Britain
John Myerscough, The economic importance of the arts in Britain ." International Journal of Cultural Policy, 16(1), pp. 74–75
Centre/periphery: Devolution/federalism: new trends in cultural policy
Cultural Trends 73/74 is a special double issue. It contains written versions of papers given at the journal's second one-day international conference, held at City University, London, in October 2
In search of cultural policy
Since May 2010, when the new Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition government came to power in England, relatively few cultural policy imperatives have been issued. What there have been are reduc
Policy reviews
Measuring quality in the cultural sector: The Manchester Metrics pilot: findings and lessons learned
Measuring Quality in the cultural sector reports on the second stage of the Manchester Metrics pilot – a three stage project, which began in April 2012 and is due to run until 2018. Bunting and Kne
Cultural Trends election special
Four observations on The Arts (2015) by Jeremy Corbyn
div_MCaPA
Response
Multiple Perspectives on Culture Counts
The measurement of performance and impact is fundamental to Cultural Trends. The journal champions the generation of better information on the cultural and creative sectors and its widespread disse
Multiple Perspectives on the Trump Administration's attitude to Cultural Funding
Museums for the many? Rhetorical optimism and the failure of sustained political will at three London government-funded museums – then and now
This article contends that there are considerable similarities between nineteenth- and twenty-first-century aspirations for museums – not least, in respect to promises of “museums for the many”. Despite contemporary policy makers of different political allegiances embracing similar rhetorics, in general they appear to have had little interest in reflecting on previous realities. This article focuses on attendances at three national museums, in pa…
Political science (25 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (20 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Law (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Public Administration (9 works) · Public Administration (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Economics (7 works)