Putting children’s rights at the heart of cultural policy and practice: Case study of Imaginate | SFC ARCS
Subject: Cultural Policy
HEI: Queen Margaret University; University of Aberdeen
School: Centre for Communication, Cultural and Media Studies
Supervisors: Prof Rebecca Finkel, Queen Margaret University; Prof Eleonora Belfiore, University of Aberdeen; Fiona Ferguson, Creative Development Director of Imagina
Keywords: Children’s Rights, Cultural Policy, Cultural Rights, Imaginate, Case Study
Discipline+Catalyst: Cultural & Museum Studies, Creative Arts & Design
Knowledge Exchange Hub: Citizenship, Culture & Ethics, Creative Economies
About Thérèse’s Research:
This PhD is in collaboration with Queen Margaret University, The University of Aberdeen and Imaginate. It is an explorative case study that seeks to map the changes that ingraining a children’s rights-based approach will have on Imaginate in terms of their policy, practices and processes. The research will use an ethnographic lens as well as a child-centred approach and creative methods to better understand how the Creative Encounters project impacts the children involved as well as Imaginate as an organisation.
Creative Encounters is Imaginate’s flagship three-year project in partnership with North Edinburgh Arts, focused on the incorporation of the UNCRC. Together, children, artists and Imaginate will explore what it means to put children’s rights at the heart of the creative process, giving a central role to children’s ideas, interests and voices.
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E: 21008641@qmu.ac.uk