Arts-based engagement: a guide for community groups, artists and researchers

Abstract

Increasingly, the arts are being used to enable people to actively and meaningfully engage with academic research. This guide, aimed at artists, community groups, researchers and anyone with an interest in engaging audiences in research, explains what arts-based engagement is all about and how it might be done well. The guide was developed in collaboration with a steering group of artists, community members and researchers, and draws on a report by RAND Europe as well as interviews conducted specifically for the guide.