Fellows and friends are invited to join this online event where Steven Hadley will present on his recently published book “Cultural Leadership in Practice: Beyond Arts Management”.
This book brings global leaders in the cultural field into dialogue with academics and experts to offer profound insight and perspectives on the complex issues the cultural sector faces in a rapidly accelerating and destabilising twenty-first century context.
The panel will then respond to his presentation and engage in facilitated discussion with each other. This will be followed by Q&A with the audience, which it is hoped will be inter-generational, inter-disciplinary and international. The final panel is in process of confirmation with additional names to be added.
Speaker
Steven Hadley is an award-winning cultural policy scholar based at Trinity College Dublin. His research asks how audiences are constructed and articulated within the context of enabling democratic access to culture. He is the author of 'Audience Devleopment and Cultural Policy' (2021) as well as numerous academic publications and is Editor of several Routledge books including 'Cultural Leadership in Practice' and 'Audience Data and Research'. He 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. He has given invited talks at the National Portrait Gallery in London, the European Parliament in Brussels, the Ministries of Culture in both Paris and Santiago de Chile, and on numerous global media platforms. Steven has worked in over thirty countries internationally and is an Associate Consultant with Counterculture (UK), The Audience Agency (UK) and the Danish Centre for Arts & Interculture (Denmark).
Panel
Shonaig Macpherson CBE, FRSA, FRSE has undertaken several non-executive roles in the culture and heritage sector including the National Trust for Scotland, The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, Dunedin Consort, the Royal Lyceum Company, the Edinburgh International Film Festival and Scottish Chamber Orchestra Trust. She currently chairs the Edinburgh International Culture Summit Foundation. As a former chairman of Scotland’s largest grant making foundation she has a strong interest in the role of philanthropy in effecting societal change. She has made a strong contribution to education, having served on the governing bodies of the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the Open University, Heriot Watt University and Edinburgh Business School. She was a member of the UK Government and Scottish Parliament’s Commission on Scottish Devolution, the Scottish Executive’s Culture Commission and its Knowledge Economy Task Force. Her executive career was in the legal profession where she specialised in advising clients whose core assets were intellectual property and led a UK top 25 firm as Senior Partner.
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