Audience Data and Research

Steven Hadley is an academic, consultant and researcher working internationally in arts management, cultural policy and audience engagement. He is currently a Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Steven sits on the Steering Committee of the Cultural Research Network, the Editorial Board of Arts and the Market and is Policy & Reviews Editor for Cultural Trends. His recent books include Audience Development and Cultural Policy (2021). Katya Johanson is Associate Dean, Creative Humanities at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia. For over 20 years, Katya has researched the ways in which audiences engage with creative productions and assisted arts and cultural policy agencies to respond to these patterns. Katya is co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Audiences and Performance (2022). Ben Walmsley is Dean of Cultural Engagement at the University of Leeds (UK) and Director of the Centre for Cultural Value. Prior to his academic career, Ben worked as an arts manager for ten years, most recently as Producer at the National Theatre of Scotland. He is an Expert Advisor for the UK Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). Anne Torreggiani is founding CEO of The Audience Agency - a UK charity for research and development in cultural participation - and Co-Director of Centre for Cultural Value at University of Leeds. She is a specialist in audience research, data and trends with particular interest in human centred design and organisational change. She works as a facilitator and adviser.

Introduction: Reflections on Audience Data and Research 1. A prison audience: women prisoners, Shakespeare and spectatorship 2. Challenges of cultural industry knowledge exchange in live performance audience research 3. Using mixed-methods, a data model and a computational ontology in film audience research 4. SROI in the art gallery; valuing social impact 5. Arts audience segmentation: data, profiles, segments and biographies 6. The work of the audience: visual matrix methodology in museums 7. A possible teleology of cultural sector data in England 8. The coming crisis of cultural engagement? Measurement, methods, and the nuances of niche activities 9. Spontaneity and planning in arts attendance: insights from qualitative interviews and the Audience Finder database 10. Measuring the effectiveness of public subsidy by the analysis of disparate data sources: do subsidies increase arts participation by low engagers?