Cultural Trends is a journal focusing on empirical analyses of key trends in the cultural sector and cultural policy. The journal is planning to focus on some specific themes over the next 18 months and is inviting proposals for papers about:
Assessing the impact of culture on society, people and the future
Identifying clear trends in cultural participation, provision and funding
Developing critical approaches to the collection, analysis and use of statistics and other data within the cultural sector
Exploring new and different approaches--both methodological and conceptual--to understanding, formulating and evaluating the operations of the cultural sector and the public policy that effects it. The journal's main focus is on an established definition of culture: the arts, literature and publishing, museums, the historic environment, material culture, film and broadcasting. Cultural Trends would like to attract contributions from a wide range of disciplines and examples of multidisciplinary research across such fields as public policy, political studies, sociology, law, economics, geography, urban planning, leisure studies and the study of consumerism. If sufficient submissions of suitably high quality are received focusing on similar issues, they will be published together in special editions of the journal. Contributions should be statistically based, or about statistics, have a clear story line, be potentially contentious, and of up to about 10,000 words with no more than 20 tables/ figures. For further details, CLICK HERE.
