The School of Arts Management and Cultural Policy is actively engaged in research on the sector, carried out by both academic staff and postgraduate students. Students pursuing the MA in Arts Management and Cultural Policy are required to complete a minor thesis, involving original research on a wide range of subjects. A sample of recent MA theses include:
- Aisling Ennis, Social Capital: A Case Study Assessment of its Role in the Work of the Orchestra Manager (2007)
- Guilhelm Duprat, Managing a World-Class Symphony Orchestra: Comparative Study of the London Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre de Paris (2006)
- Sophie Johnston, Partnerships and Possibilities: An examination of the Potential for growth in corporate social responsibility partnerships between arts organisations and the corporate sector in Ireland (2005)
- Edith Andrees, Acquisition and de-accessioning Policies and Practises in Irish County Museums (2004)
- Roisin McGarr, Can Artistic Innovation Survive the Irish Marketplace? (2003)
Irish Research Resources
The Arts Council: Publications – this section of the AC’s website provides links to the many reports, papers and other documents published by the Council.
Arts, Education and Other Learning Settings: A Research Digest – an online document, produced by the Arts Council, that provides a very useful digest and summary of research on the arts & education (as well as other topics) published between 1979-2007.
Department of Tourism, Culture and Sport – access copies of the current Arts Plan and other documents here.
Office of Public Works (OPW) - find information on the Per Cent for Art Scheme, art held in public buildings in Ireland, heritage publications, and details of the other records & information held in its library.
Heritage Council: Publications – the HC’s website has an extensive list of online reports available.
Crafts Council: Publications – CCoI has a number of documents available including annual and industry reports and other publications related to craft in Ireland.
Houses of the Oireachtas – here you may access details of Irish government legislation, full text minutes of parliamentary debates from 1919-2008, and other legislative information.
Irish Museums Association – the IMA publish a regular journal and newsletter on all topics related to Irish museums, also available to view online.
Theatre Forum Ireland - as the primary professional organisation for theatre in Ireland, Theatre Forum’s website includes details of the types of information & reports which it makes available to its members (and often the general public), including annual analyses of arts budgets and information on HR practices in theatre.
Visual Artists Ireland – as the primary professional organisation for the visual arts in Ireland, VAI’s website includes details of symposia, exhibitions, events, publications, conferences, workshops and lectures; in addition to details about their publications, including the journal Printed Project and online copies/back copies of their News Sheet, some of the key news periodicals in the vis arts in Ireland.
Compendium: Cultural Policies and Trends in Europe – this resource provides extremely useful summaries of cultural policy throughout the EU; additionally its entry on Ireland provides an excellent summary of Irish cultural policy & its historical development, aimed at an audience unfamiliar with the country. Country profiles also include information on Creative / Culture Industries, Professional Artists, Arts Education, and Amateur Arts.
Key Dublin-based Irish Libraries for Arts Management & Cultural Policy Research
Uuniversity College Dublin – for obvious reasons, usually the first port of call for our students.
Francoise Henry Reading Room (UCD School of Art History & Cultural Policy) – includes special collections of books & periodicals, in addition to access to previous MA theses (available on request). Please note the Reading Room is accessible to current registered students at UCD only.
Trinity College Dublin – the largest library in Ireland and one of the most essential for advanced research, especially given its designation as a copyright library (it’s entitled to a copy of everything published in Ireland and the UK). Important for its historical collections (manuscripts, maps etc) as well as its contemporary ones (books, newspapers, periodicals).
National Library of Ireland – the national repository for all books, newspapers and periodicals published in Ireland, as well as extensive collections of photography, drawings, ephemera, and manuscripts.
National Irish Visual Arts Library (NIVAL) – collects materials related to modern & contemporary Irish art, including monographs, exhibition catalogues, artists’ books, price lists, press releases and newspaper reviews.
National Gallery of Ireland - of particular interest may be the Fine Art Library (with monographs, exhibition catalogues, and texts on museology and museum education, though most of the material is of interest to art historians); NGI Archive (containing material pertaining to the establishment of the Gallery); amd the ESB Centre for the Study of Irish Art (mainly primary materials related to the visual arts in Ireland, including artist correspondence, diaries, and other ephemera).
National Archives – ‘holds the records of the modern Irish State which document its historical evolution and the creation of our national identity. These documents have enormous research potential as they provide essential primary source material for people seeking to understand the political, economic and social forces which have shaped our nation.’ Most material (which encompasses archives of gov’t depts, archives of social organisations and census data) dates from the 19th and 20th c.
Arts Management & Cult. Policy Journals at UCD
Journals accessible through UCD’s Library are marked with an asterisk(*); journals available in the Reading Room at the School of Art History & Cultural Policy are marked with a double asterisk (**)
International Arts Manager Magazine**
International Journal of Arts Management**
International Journal of Cultural Policy**
International Journal of Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Marketing*
Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society
Journal of Non-profit & Public Sector Marketing
Museum International* (also a useful listing of tables of content is available here)
Museum & Society (available free online at their website)
Museum Management and Curatorship*
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
Nonprofit Management and Leadership*
Poetics: Journal of empirical research on Culture, the Media and the Arts*
Electronic Resources at UCD
For the MA students: the UCD library subscribes to a number of excellent research databases, which contain many full-text journal articles and other reference information. Below you’ll find a list and links to some of the most useful resources (databases with full-text articles are marked with an asterisk).These resources are also listed on the Library website, under the heading ‘Electronic Resources’ (List of Library Databases).
You may also avail of the Library’s FindIt@UCD function, which allows searches many of these databases simultaneously– this might be a good place to start.
Start here:
Academic Search Premier (aggregator of full text articles across disciplines)*
Business Source Premier (full text business articles)*
Informaworld (full text articles from business, sociology, humanities, etc. published by Taylor & Francis and Routledge) *
JSTOR (aggregator of full text articles across disciplines, especially humanities)*
Lexis Nexis Professional (newspaper and magazine full-text)*
Project Gutenberg (full text e-books)*
Project MUSE (full text articles in social sciences, humanities)*
ProQuest (full text articles in business studies)*
Includes: ABI Inform
Sage Journals Online (full text articles in business, social sciences, humanities)*
SpringerLink (full text articles in business, social sciences, humanities)*
Web of Knowledge (one of the most powerful aggregators of citation information across disciplines)
Includes: Arts and Humanities Citation index
Wilson Business Index (major business periodicals)*
Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition (aggregator of full text articles across disciplines)*
Includes: Art Index Plus , Education Index, Humanities Index
For more specialised or detailed searches:
ARTbibliographies Modern – ABM
ASSIA – Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts
BHI – British Humanities Index
BIAB: British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography
CAB Abstracts (Tourism)
Cambridge Journals Online (Full text of articles published by Cambridge Univ. Press journals)*
Communication Abstracts (Communications studies)
DAAI – Design and Applied Arts Index
Dissertation and Theses Abstracts (Major source of North American theses, and some European)
Emerald Management Xtra (Management)*
Factfinder (Business and Social science)*
Grove Art Online (art encyclopedia)*
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers*
Index to Theses (UK and Ireland)
Infotrac (business)
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
Journal Citation Reports (social sciences)
Journals@Ovid (social sciences)*
Oxford Journals Online (Full text of articles published by Oxford Univ. Press journals)*
An excellent selection of links to international research institutes in arts and cultural policy can also be found at artsmanagement.net.
See also Compendium: Cultural Policies and Trends in Europe , a resource providing extremely useful summaries of national cultural policy throughout the EU. Country profiles also include information on Creative / Culture Industries, Professional Artists, Arts Education, and Amateur Arts.
Some of the most interesting research on cultural policy in the UK is carried out by the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies at University of Warwick and the DEMOS Policy Think-tank– both well worth a browse.
For information on the U.S., check out the Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive (CPANDA), sponsored by Princeton University.
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