Module overview
This module sets out the programme’s focus on understanding and shaping the role of arts and culture in society. You will examine current issues, debates and developments in arts and cultural management and leadership. Examining and evaluating a range of scholarly, industry, and policy resources, you will critically analyse examples and case studies. The programme engages with international examples and partners to ensure a diversity of perspectives, and to question and disrupt established strategies and approaches to arts and cultural sector leadership and management. In this module, you will develop the academic research and communication skills required across the programme. This module will enable you to evaluate research to create new understandings and insights into the field of arts and cultural management and leadership.
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- critically analyse examples and case studies relevant to arts and cultural leadership
Disciplinary Specific Learning Outcomes
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- evaluate academic ideas and debates that advance research relating to arts and cultural sector leadership issues and practices
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- demonstrate accurate and effective academic research and communication skills
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- how to critically examine academic ideas and debates related to arts and cultural leadership
Syllabus
This module critically examines issues and debates relating to arts and cultural sector management and leadership. The starting point is to examine the relationship between leadership and management through a range of models and theories, including:
- Authentic leadership
- Responsible leadership
- Values-based leadership
- Ethical leadership
- Purpose-drive leadership
These models and theories are explicitly connected to the specifics of art and cultural leadership, enabling you to understand, reflect on and explore the meeting points between leadership theory and practice and the strategic and operational issues and challenges within the sector.
This module goes on to use these leadership models and theories to strategically examine the areas of practice that are essential for organisations and practitioners in arts and cultural sectors. Indicative topics include:
- Audience research, engagement and evaluation
- Cultural policy and cultural value
- Organisation and governance
- Marketing
- Fundraising and development
- Governance
The module content is responsive to changing priorities and agendas across academia, industry, policy and activist contexts.
Issues of sustainability, equity and belonging, and social justice are embedded throughout the exploration of these topics. Likewise, the critical analysis and applied practice of arts and cultural ethical leadership is integrated across the whole programme and connected to each of these topics.
Your examination of these topics will be aligned with your other semester 1 modules which focus on engaging with external partners and perspectives and employing relevant resources and skills.
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Teaching and learning methods may include:
- Lectures
- Interactive sessions with arts and cultural sector organisations and practitioners
- Seminars
- Student-led presentations
- Independent reading and research
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Private study hours | 252 |
| Teaching | 48 |
| Total study time | 300 |
Resources & Reading list
Journal Articles
Kempster, S. and Jackson, B. (2022). Leadership for What, Why, for Whom and Where? A Responsibility Perspective. Journal of Change Management, 21(1), pp. 45-65.
Todnem, R.B.. Leadership: In Pursuit of Purpose.. Journal of Change Management, 21(2), pp. 30-44.
Textbooks
Malik, K. and Dudrah, R. (2020). South Asian Creative and Cultural Industries.. Routledge.
Kaehler, B. (2022). Management and Leadership: Definition, Differentiations, and Other Theoretical Considerations (chapter in Contemporary Management). Springer.
Durrer, V. and Henze, R. (2020). Managing Culture: Reflecting on Exchange in Global Times. Springer.
DeVereaux, C. (2018). Arts and Cultural Management: Sense and Sensibilities in the State of the Field. Routledge.
Henze, R. and Escribal, F. (2021). Cultural Management and Policy in Latin America. Routledge.
Pitts, S.E and Price, S.M. (2021). Understanding Audience Engagement in the Contemporary Arts. Routledge.
Caust, J. (2018). Arts Leadership in Contemporary Context. Routledge.
Rentschler, R. (2018). Arts Governance: People, Passion, Performance. Routledge.
O’Reilly, D. (2013). The Routledge Companion to Arts Marketing.. Routledge.
Paquette, J. and Redaelli, E. (2015). Arts Management and Cultural Policy Research. Palgrave Macmillan.
Raviola, E. and Zackariasson, P. (2016). Arts and Business: Building a Common Ground for Understanding Society. Routledge.
Mohr, J.W., Bail, C.A., Frye, M., Lena, J.C., Lizardo, O., McDonnell, T.E., Mische, A., Tavory, I. and Wherry, F.F. (2020). Measuring Culture. Columbia University Press.
Hadley, S. (2021). Audience Development and Cultural Policy. Springer.
Assessment
Formative
This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.
Plan
- Assessment Type: Formative
- Feedback: Written and verbal feedback
- Final Assessment: No
- Group Work: No
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Report | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Report | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Report | 100% |