Previous PALATINE Projects
Performing Arts Creative Enterprise (PACE) Project
PALATINE’s PACE (Performing Arts Creative Enterprise) Project (2004-5), funded by the Department for Education and Skills, investigated ways of further developing and enhancing the teaching of entrepreneurial skills in the performing arts.
The project developed links with a number of institutions, departments and courses where innovative and successful work in this area is occurring and collected, collated and shared this practice. It also directly funded further important new initiatives in the learning and teaching of entrepreneurship in dance, drama and music.
To explore the role that higher education institutions can adopt in developing environments and alliances that stimulate artistic and creative enterprise, the PACE project supported the Creative Enterprise in Higher Education Conference, which took place on 16 November 2005 at Lancaster University. This was the first national conference in the area of cultural entrepreneurship in higher education.
PACE Project Events
Creative Enterprise in Higher Education Conference
PACE Project Resources
Employability and Employer Engagement
CAREER Project
The CAREER Project (2003–2004) was funded by HEFCE. The project focused on the distinctive features of the labour market in the performing arts and creative industries sector, supporting the work of the subject centre in formulating strategies to address issues surrounding graduate employability in this sector.
CAREER Project Events
Versatile Musicians: Making Your Music Students Employable workshop held at Birimingham Conservatoire, 5 March 2004.
Arts into Employment Conference held at University College Chester, Warrington Campus, 15 June 2005.
CAREER Project Resources
Employability and Employer Engagement
Evaluation of WISEAMP
WISEAMP (Women in Sound Engineering and Music Production) was a women-only training programme, supported by the European Social Fund and based at the School of Sound Recording in Manchester. The programme was designed to upskill women in the sound engineering and music technology professions. It had been set up in response to a set of recommendations from the "Regional Equality in Music" (REM) research project, documented by Adele Smaill in 2005.
PALATINE was commissioned to undertake an evaluation of the effectiveness of the WISEAMP programme. Our findings showed that WISEAMP had been successful in providing a free, relevant and practical programme for women working to develop their skills and employability in sound technology. We found that the women had benefited significantly from meeting people and networking, developing skills and knowledge, and making contacts in the industry.
The full set of reports (the REM report and the PALATINE evaluation reports) can be accessed via the WISEAMP page at the School of Sound Recording.