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Sport, Leisure and Tourism Research - University of Exeter Experiences and Engagement: An Investigation of Young Persons’ Visits to ARTIST ROOMS on Tour Stephen Vainker

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Page 1: Centre for Sport, Leisure and Tourism Research - University of Exeter Experiences and Engagement: An Investigation of Young Persons’ Visits to ARTIST ROOMS

Centre for Sport, Leisure and Tourism Research - University of Exeter

Experiences and Engagement: An Investigation of Young Persons’ Visits to ARTIST

ROOMS on Tour

Stephen Vainker

Page 2: Centre for Sport, Leisure and Tourism Research - University of Exeter Experiences and Engagement: An Investigation of Young Persons’ Visits to ARTIST ROOMS

Introduction

• 3 year PhD project, 2011-2013

• Focus on 2012 Art Fund supported ARTIST ROOMS learning projects

• Looking at young people’s experiences of participation

• My background: psychology, education, organization studies

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Participation of young people

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20000

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60000

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AR funding by activity, 2009-10

£s

Youth–led activities

Youth workshops

Without youth

participation

Page 4: Centre for Sport, Leisure and Tourism Research - University of Exeter Experiences and Engagement: An Investigation of Young Persons’ Visits to ARTIST ROOMS

Generalisation to research question

Research Question on participation: 'What works, for whom, how and why?’

AR enables us to experiment with new forms of engagement

We are at an early stage in developing participative models in galleries .

Generalisation: participation is necessary to generate meaningful, inclusive engagement

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Methods

Observation

Conversation analysis

Participation Interviews

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End Credits

• Research presented here was conducted during an ESRC Studentship under its Capacity Building Clusters Award (RES-187-24-0002) in partnership with Tate and National Galleries of Scotland.

• For more information about this project and the work of the Centre for Sport, Leisure and Tourism research, see www.ex.ac.uk/slt.

• Stephen Vainker, [email protected], 07792299494.