Symposium Recordings

Keynotes

Opening keynote – Alan Brown: Audience research gone wild

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Closing keynote – Lynne Conner: Getting to a culture of arts talk: a call to arms

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Invited speakers and papers

Amanda Dalton (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester) and Rachel Clements (University of Manchester)

You, The Audience: From punter to collaborator: how arts venues might change their relationship with audiences and why they might want to try

Lianne Pelletier (University of Sudbury)

Audiences as seen beyond the sociodemographic divide: encounters with dissonant arts consumers

Steven Hadley (Consultant), Orian Brook (University of Edinburgh) and Oliver Mantell (The Audience Agency)

Theorising big data and quantitative methods in the art

Hilary Glow and Katya Johanson (Deakin University, Melbourne)

Diversifying Audiences in the Performing Arts: Easy to say, Hard to Do

Echo Fan (University of Leeds)

Sojourning: a study of audience experience of Chinese theatre in the UK

Matthew Reason (York St. John University)

Where in your body? Digital platforms and playful questions in online audience research

Jutta Toelle (Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt)

Approaches to (experimental) audience research: An introduction to studies undertaken at the MPI for Empirical Aesthetics

Sarah Astill (University of Leeds)

Physiological methods for evaluating community dance projects (a research initiative with Yorkshire Dance)

Peter Merrington (Newcastle University)

Innovative methodology for researching audiences of specialised film in English regions

Stephanie Pitts and Sarah Price (University of Sheffield)

Researching with arts networks: shaping questions, sharing knowledge

Charlotte Gilmore (University of Edinburgh)

Knowledge and Knowhow: a qualitative research toolbox for small- and medium-sized creative organisations

Kirsty Sedgman (University of Bristol) and Martin Barker (Aberystwyth University)

Developing Quali-quantitative Research Designs: Why and How

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