Research, Consultancy, and Knowledge Exchange
Our work is grounded in internationally peer-reviewed academic research. We undertake research projects to generate new knowledge and real-world impact that leads to a safer and more sustainable world.
The ideas, tools, and practices that we develop in our academic research can be applied in a range of new contexts. Our consultancy and knowledge exchange practice creates opportunities to share this work and facilitate learning and development in new contexts.
Where our research explores intersections between arts, culture, resilience, and environment, our consultancy and knowledge exchange has a much broader focus. We help organizations focus on arts-resilience strategy, enhance team practices, or develop effective practices of collaboration with allied organisations.
Research
We undertake internationally-focused, original, interdisciplinary research, contributing to ideas, methods, and practices in performance studies and allied fields. We collaborate with academics and professionals, present and publish internationally, and run programmes of work to ensure our research findings result in real world impact.
Consultancy And Knowledge Exchange
Building creative, strategic organisational practices through performance research
We work with clients to identify key areas for development, then employ methods, tools, and practices from our research to develop new approaches to professional practice.
Whether we are delivering a workshop series or more bespoke engagement, our approach and practices are directly informed by our most recent research findings.
From seeding creative approaches to emergency planning to finding new ways of engaging in arts management in local contexts, from creating effective contexts to advance national strategy to supporting a local team develop new working practices, we invite organizations to find better ways to work together and creative means of rethinking their responses to contemporary challenges.
Our approach is grounded in creative, and specifically performance‑based, methods that reveal patterns, pressures and possibilities that are easy to miss in day‑to‑day work. From facilitated conversations to site-based workshops and public engagement practices, we bring a range of performance practices to explore new ways of thinking and working.
What our work makes possible
In all of our work, our project partners consistently describe:
- clearer, more robust strategies and priorities
- stronger internal and external relationships
- a renewed understanding of role and purpose
- more confident decision‑making
- practical changes to planning and communication
- space to think differently about complex issues
Interested?
If you’re interested in rethinking familiar ways of working, we’d love to connect.
Performing City Resilience led us to make ‘a fundamental shift in our own understanding of the role of the arts in our city’s fabric… now, when we ask ourselves how our programming helps build community, we have a wider view and more solid grounding in this resilience framework.”
Arts organisation, New Orleans