Young cultural policy research forum online: stay connected, inspired and updated: a snapshot interview with Forum moderator Lidia Varbanova

Read the interview also on ENCATC website: http://www.encatc.org/pages/fi​leadmin/user_upload/Newsletter​s/ENCATC_NEWSLETTER_2011_6_DIG​EST.pdf Dr. Lidia Varbanova has over 20 years of professional experience as a consultant, researcher and lecturer in more than 50 countries. Her portfolio covers subjects as diverse as strategy, management, entrepreneurship, marketing, fundraising, … Read More

Panorama: Inventory of Resources on Intercultural Dialogue

Panorama is a resource offered by the Platform for Intercultural Europe, which was initiated in 2006 (as the Civil Society Platform for Intercultural Dialogue) by Culture Action Europe and the European Cultural Foundation (ECF), with the support of the Network … Read More

Prof. Milena Dragićević Šešić: A collaborative, human and community engaging angle on cultural policy and management

Milena Dragićević Šešić is Professor of Cultural  Policy & Management, former President of University of Arts in Belgrade. She is Head of UNESCO Chair in Cultural Policy and Management (interculturalism and mediation in the Balkans) at the University of Arts, … Read More

“ If you don’t care don’t do it”, advises Christopher Gordon

Christopher Gordon has worked in the arts/cultural policy professionally for 40 years. He is a freelance consultant, university teacher and writer/researcher.  Having half-trained as a Classical archaeologist, changed direction into arts management and then policy development, implementation and evaluation.  Some … Read More

A fresh approach to culture-led regeneration policies

Claire Bullen (UK) is the winner of the 7th Cultural Policy Research Award 2010 (CPRA). Claire is a 2nd year PhD Student at the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures – an inter-disciplinary research centre at the University of Manchester. The … Read More

“We are still at the beginning when it comes to transnational cultural policies”: Therese Kaufmann shares

Therese Kaufmann is a co-director of the European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies in Vienna (eipcp), and one of the editors of the multilingual web journal transversal. She currently coordinates the multi-annual research project Creating Worlds (2009-2012). She has worked in a number … Read More

Cultural policy is a constantly developing multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary field: a commentary by Prof.Dr. Anita Kangas

Prof. Dr. Anita Kangas is Director of the Unit for Cultural Policy/Politics Studies at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy in the University of Jyväskylä and Director of the Multidisciplinary PhD School for Cultural Policy in Finland. Previously, she … Read More

Collaborative online tools on cultural policy

Cultural policy is an important issue worldwide, a focus point for a growing number of public debates, conferences, academic research work, official documents and educational programs. It seems that professionals dealing with policy issues in the cultural sector still lack … Read More

Mind the complexity, be flexible and constantly enhance your knowledge: A snapshot interview with Sanjin Dragojevic

Sanjin Dragojević, is a Professor in Sociology of culture and Sociology of mass communication as well as in Cultural policy and Media policy at the Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb. He also works as consultant to a number of … Read More

Cultural policy research field: challenges, opportunities and a sense of humour: a snapshot interview with Sharon Jeannotte

Sharon Jeannotte is Senior Fellow at the Centre on Governance of the University of Ottawa.  From 2005 to 2007, she was Senior Advisor to the Canadian Cultural Observatory in the Department of Canadian Heritage.  From 1999 to 2005, she was … Read More