Rethinking ‘knowledge exchange’: new approaches to collaborative work in the arts and humanities

Moreton, Simon

Abstract

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. This paper explores approaches to collaborative work between arts and humanities disciplines in UK Higher Education and the creative economy. The paper examines the work of four Knowledge Exchange Hubs for the Creative Economy established by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). These hubs fund collaborative ‘knowledge exchange’ (KE) projects between creative businesses and academics in the arts and humanities. The paper first outlines the unclear relationship between knowledge exchange activities in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and the creative economy. The second step unpacks the approaches to KE that the hubs are developing. The third step considers what the consequences of such projects might be. The paper concludes that such ‘third mission’ activities are never neutral or apolitical spaces. Rather, they are sites where assumptions about collaboration and creativity are being remade, and that this is a space for both opportunity and critique.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 25, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Oct 27, 2015
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2016
• Deposit Date: Apr 4, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 27, 2017
• Journal: International Journal of Cultural Policy
• Print ISSN: 1028-6632
• Electronic ISSN: 1477-2833
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 100-115
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2015.1101081
• Keywords: knowledge exchange, arts and humanities, Higher Education, creative economy, co-production
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/921746
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2015.1101081
• Additional Information: Additional Information : This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Cultural Policy on 27 October 2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/10286632.2015.1101081
• Contract Date: Apr 4, 2016