- Thursday 5 November, 3PM UK time
- Online via Teams webinar
How can language help arts, culture and heritage organisations make a stronger case for investment?
The Arts, Culture & Heritage (ACH) Taxonomies Project has developed a framework with taxonomies describing how arts, culture and heritage as capital create flows of benefits for people and communities. The framework aims to provide a consistent structure and common language that can help arts, culture and heritage organisations, public bodies, funders and researchers make stronger evidence-based cases for investment, policy support and long-term stewardship.
In this session, Adala Leeson, Head of Social and Economic Research at Historic England, will present the ACH Taxonomies project and its implications for arts, culture and heritage organisations. There will be time for Q&A following the presentation.
This 1-hour talk is part of Creative PEC’s Seminar Series.
The ACH Taxonomies Project is funded by Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sports (DCMS) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) through the Culture and Heritage Capital programme.
Speakers
Adala Leeson
Head of Social and Economic Research, Historic England
Adala Leeson is head of social and economic research at Historic England where she leads a team of analysts undertaking and commissioning social, economic and environmental research. Adala is the responsible editor for the “Heritage Counts” publication series, producing and disseminating evidence on how heritage supports the economy, society and the environment. Adala is currently the Principal Investigator for the AHRC/DCMS funded ACH Taxonomies project: developing taxonomies for arts, culture and heritage. She is also a co-investigator on the AHRC/ DCMS funded Caveat project, University of Glasgow, developing economic techniques for culture and heritage valuation. Prior to joining Historic England, Adala worked as an Associate Economic Consultant for 10 years, advising public and private clients on economic development and regeneration programmes. She previously worked in academia as a researcher at the London School of Economics for two years.
Giorgio Fazio (chair)
Professor of Macroeconomics
Newcastle University
Giorgio Fazio is an applied economist with expertise in macroeconomics, trade and investment. He has published several articles in international peer-reviewed journals and chapters in edited books on issues such as exchange rates determination, crises and contagion, growth, and convergence at the national and regional levels, productivity, innovation, trade and FDI, civic and cultural capital, creative industries economics.
He has been a Creative PEC researcher since 2018, leading the work on international trade, investment and migration and contributing to economic research in the creative industries in PEC Discussion papers, blogs and peer reviewed journal articles.
Giorgio is Chair of Macroeconomics at Newcastle University Business School and since 2023 is the Research Director of the Creative Industries Policy Evidence Centre.
