Owen Garling and Professor Michael Kenny from the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge share insights from their ongoing research project examining 'cultural infrastructure'.

In this guest blog, commissioned as part of Culture Commons’ open policy development programme on devolution and increased local decision making, Kathryn Welch reflects on her experience as Programme Lead for the Culture Collective programme, a powerful network of 26 community-rooted creative projects across Scotland initiated by Creative Scotland.

In this guest blog, David Jubb reflects on his work with Citizen’s in Power, a not for profit founded in March 2023 to promote the value of citizen-led cultural decision making.

Culture Commons publishes a new Insight Paper laying out a variety of perspectives from some of the UK’s largest Grant Giving Bodies shared at a special roundtable as part of a major open policy development programme exploring cultural devolution.

Today we publish a new Discussion Paper by Professor Leila Jancovich (University of Leeds), Dr Lucrezia Gigante (Culture Commons) and Dr Claire Burnill-Maier (Culture Commons) that unpacks some of the main models that have supported people to participate in decision making about the cultural life of their local area.

Over the last nine months, the Culture Commons team has been working closely with leading universities and research institutions across the UK to develop new research exploring devolution and increased local decision making as part of a major four-nations open policy development programme. Today we make all that research publicly available to uphold out commitment to open and transparent policy making.

This June, Culture Commons collaborated with partners our partners at the University of Dundee and Culture Counts on an inspiring two-day visit to Dundee as part of 'the future of local cultural decision making' - a major four-nations research and open policy development programme.