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Research and Policy
A Culture Strategy for Scotland
A Culture Strategy for Scotland shows how important culture is to Scotland’s prosperity and sets the future direction for supporting culture in Scotland...
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Creative Partners
Visible Fictions
Since 1991 we have been creating innovative and dynamic theatrical experiences and creative learning projects for young people of all ages...
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Creative Partners
Catherine Wheels Theatre Company
Catherine Wheels Theatre Company is an award winning Scottish company who produce high quality theatre for children and young people and tours to theatres, schools and community venues across Scotland...
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Creative Partners
Scottish Book Trust
Scottish Book Trust is the leading agency for the promotion of literature, reading and writing...
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Creative Partners
Travelling Gallery
The Travelling Gallery is a unique, custom-built, mobile art gallery...
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Research and Policy
Eric Booth Website
As "one of the 25 most important people in American arts education" Eric Booth has influenced our own thinking about creativity across teaching and learning here in Scotland...
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Research and Policy
The National Parent Forum of Scotland Guide to Creativity
The National Parent Forum of Scotland nutshell guide, with a focus on Creativity, Enterprise and Employability, is aimed at parents with children of all ages...
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Creative Partners
Company Chordelia
Formed in 2002 by artistic director Kally Lloyd-Jones, Company Chordelia defies traditional dance boundaries, working creatively by bringing music, opera, theatricality, story-telling, design and imagination to all its productions...
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Creative Partners
National Theatre of Scotland
Our mission is to make exceptional, audacious, collaborative theatre that represents the complexity of modern Scotland, and to take that theatre to our communities and to the world...
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Creative Partners
WE Schools
WE Schools is a unique, four-step active citizenship programme that inspires young people to identify the local and global issues that spark their passion, and empowers them with the skills and tools to make change...
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Research and Policy
The Future of Jobs Report 2020 - World Economic Forum
The Future of Jobs report maps the jobs and skills of the future, tracking the pace of change...
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Research and Policy
Skills Investment Plan for Scotland’s Creative Industries sector
The influence and impact that the Creative Industries sector has on Scotland – both economically and culturally – is deep and varied...
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Research and Policy
Coffitivity
A team of researchers, led by Ravi Mehta at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign tested the effects of varying levels of noise on participants’ creative thinking skills, proving that moderately loud background noise boosts creative thinking...
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Research and Policy
Inequality kills innovation and entrepreneurship
"Our study of 21 OECD countries over more than a 100 years shows income inequality actually restricts people from earning more, educating themselves and becoming entrepreneurs...
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Creative Partners
Starcatchers
Starcatchers is Scotland’s Arts and Early Years organisation...
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Creative Partners
Traverse Theatre
The Traverse is a hub that celebrates everyone's creativity...
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Quotes
“I want us all to think about new and creative ways to … encourage young people to create and build and invent — to be makers of things, not just consumers of things...”
—Barack Obama, U.S. President
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Quotes
“Science and arts are not an either/or...”
—Creative Industries Federation
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Quotes
“The high-skilled minority (characterised by their creativity, analytical and problem solving capabilities and communication skills) will have strong bargaining power in the labour market, whilst the low-skilled will bear the brunt of the drive for flexibility and cost reduction...”
—The Future of Work: Jobs and Skills in 2030 (UKCES)
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Research and Policy
The TIME Creativity Poll
In partnership with the Motion Picture Association of America and Microsoft, TIME polled Americans about the role of creativity in the workplace, in schools and in government...