MA Arts Administration & Cultural Policy

This programme offers you the chance to engage with the key issues in the formulation of arts and cultural policy and the administration of the arts, in particular those relating to the performing arts. This MA from the Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship will enable you to develop an awareness of and a critical approach to the discipline, by studying arts policy and practice in Europe, audience development, fundraising, arts education, cultural tourism, regeneration through arts, arts diversity and social inclusion, copyright and the role of the arts in relations and diplomacy as well as national and cultural identity.

The programme enables you to develop the following skills: Critical awareness of cultural policy issues; Preparation of specific audience; development and fundraising strategies for arts organisations, and more generic strategic plans; Leadership and teamwork skills. Graduates typically go on to careers in the following areas: Cultural policy: researching, developing, writing, analysing and evaluating policy; Management in building-based and touring theatre, dance, music and visual arts organisations; Arts education, arts regeneration and arts for social and community purposes; Audience development, programming and planning.

Careers

Graduates typically go on to careers in the following areas:

• Cultural policy: researching, developing, writing, analysing and evaluating policy
• Management in building-based and touring theatre, dance, music and visual arts organisations
• Arts education, arts regeneration and arts for social and community purposes
• Audience development, programming and planning
• Organisational development and fundraising.