Mapping the Terrain – Entrepreneurship and Professional Practice in Dance Higher Education

PALATINE has been working on a new research project funded by the National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship (NCGE) seeking to map enterprise and entrepreneurship within HE Dance programmes.

Susanne Burns (Liverpool John Moores University) has been working as the lead consultant working with Ralph Brown and Paul Kleiman from PALATINE on the project.

The project is a multi dimensional mapping exercise that is seeking to investigate approaches to enterprise and professional practice in dance, especially mapping projects within the dance sector that bring together the dance profession and HE. The project will help to define what partnership can achieve.

We are seeking to identify the scale of provision and by investigating a sample will identify models of good practice and examples of partnership between the dance sector and HE.

Initial findings from the research were presented at the International Entrepreneurship Educators Conference, York 2006. PowerPoint slides from this presentation are available to download (PDF 1Mb). 

Detailed case studies will be presented at The Dancer’s World of Work symposium organised by PALATINE taking place at Lancaster University on November 16 2006.

The project report, Mapping Dance, is now available.

Date: 5/5/2006 - 31/12/2006
Contact: Ralph Brown
01524 593545,