Overcoming barriers to collaboration 

2nd Feb 2023 2:00pm-4:00pm 

To attend this course please book on Inkpath. Inkpath is an app available to all Techne students, if you're not already using it please click here to find out how to get started. 

 

This session will use expert speakers and student experience to discover the potential barriers to collaboration, before considering ways of overcoming these. This session will consider issues such as managing resources of time and skill, the perils of tokenistic collaboration, gatekeeping, cultural and ideological differences, and physical and digital disconnection. Students will think about their own situations, identified in the first session, and how any barriers they identified there can now be reconsidered. 

This workshop is designed for Techne students who are undertaking collaborative or practice-based work as part of their PhD research.

Speakers

 

(Co-Chairs) Suzie Leighton / Gemma Outen

 

Dr Ash Brockwell, artist, writer, and consultant, The London Interdisciplinary School 

• Ash will lead a workshop using a creative enquiry approach to develop value based collaborations. The workshop segment will be delivered using Miro. If you are unable to access the Miro board in the session, we will offer a work around.

Ruth Moore, PhD student, University of Exeter & previously Performance Partnerships Manager at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

• Ruth will share her experiences from within HE as both a PhD student but also as a KE professional in her previous role at TORCH. She will consider how students can preempt barriers to collaboration and will also outline research undertaken by TORCH and the Independent Theatre Council (ITC), which looked at barriers and enablers to collaboration between HE and the theatre sector, with an emphasis on financial barriers.

Katy Vanden, Producer at Cap a Pie Theatre 

• Katy will focus on her experiences within a cultural creative theatre organisation considering issues of negotiating power imbalances between collaborative partners and the challenges of working with HEIs. She’ll finally lead a short budgeting exercise alongside Suzie to ask participants to think about budgeting for collaborative projects with the arts and cultural sector.

 

The Culture Capital Exchange (TCCE) is one of the country’s key Cultural Knowledge Exchange organisations. We have an established and extensive track record of work in supporting collaboration, partnerships, networks and engagements of various kinds between Higher Education and the arts and cultural sectors dating back to since our inception as LCACE in 2005.

TCCE will be running a series of five workshops throughout the 22/23 academic year. These will support collaborative or practice-based students from Techne DTP to build partnerships and working relationships with the arts and cultural sectors. These workshops will enable students to focus on their career development, particularly with reference to working across sectors, and will feature expert speakers from across Higher Education and the arts and culture sectors.