Financial Management, Risk & Resilience for Festivals
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Kerr, G., Barnes, C., & Ali-Knight, J. (2022)
Financial Management, Risk & Resilience for Festivals. [Course module]
Good financial management is extremely important when starting a festival. The ability to manage your festival’s funds, plan your budget, manage risk and be resilient is funda...
Business Planning & Governance for Festivals
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Kerr, G., Barnes, C., & Ali-Knight, J. (2022)
Business Planning & Governance for Festivals. [Course module]
Festival planning is not like day-to-day business in an office! Imagine an umbrella shared by several people: that’s how a festival works! Festivals are a collaboration of dif...
Audience Development and Communications for Festivals
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Kerr, G., Barnes, C., & Ali-Knight, J. (2022)
Audience Development and Communications for Festivals. [Course module]
Audience development and communications are vital in modern-day festival management. Audience development is also about retaining interest from existing audiences and growing ...
Starting a Festival
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Kerr, G., Barnes, C., & Ali-Knight, J. (2022)
Starting a Festival. [Course module]
Have you got an idea for starting a festival and are unsure where to begin? This toolkit will help you get started. The good news is that all leading festival curators have as...
Artistic & Curation Strategies for Festivals
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Kerr, G., Barnes, C., & Ali-Knight, J. (2022)
Artistic & Curation Strategies for Festivals. [Course module]
To compete and succeed in any venture in the modern world, it takes thinking outside the box and strategising your actions. Artistic flair and curation strategies are what mak...
Unlock & Revive: The ingredients needed to deliver accessible online cultural and heritage events that bring positive benefits to people living with dementia
Report
Stewart, H., Smith, S., Baxter, R., Ali-Knight, J., & Kerr, G. (2022)
Unlock & Revive: The ingredients needed to deliver accessible online cultural and heritage events that bring positive benefits to people living with dementia. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Napier University
Unlock & Revive is a multi-disciplinary action-research project that involves multiple partners. It is a highly collaborative project aimed at supporting the wellbeing of peop...
The ‘Senses Framework’: A relationship-centred approach to co-producing dementia events in order to allow people to live well after a dementia diagnosis
Journal Article
Stewart, H., Ali-Knight, J., Stephen, S., & Kerr, G. (2022)
The ‘Senses Framework’: A relationship-centred approach to co-producing dementia events in order to allow people to live well after a dementia diagnosis. Event Management, 26(1), 157-175. https://doi.org/10.3727/152599521X16192004803683
Dementia is a progressive disorder that affects how the brain works, and in particular the ability to remember, think and reason. It affects speech, mood, mobility, behavior a...
Modelling Mobility and Infection: The reopening of Edinburgh's Festivals
Report
Ali-Knight, J. (2021)
Modelling Mobility and Infection: The reopening of Edinburgh's Festivals. University of Edinburgh
Closure of business, festivals and cultural activities due to COVID-19 has imposed a significant social and economic loss to the City of Edinburgh. This project modelled the s...
Guest editorial
Journal Article
Platt, L., & Ali-Knight, J. (2018)
Guest editorial. Journal of Place Management and Development, 11(3), 262-265. https://doi.org/10.1108/jpmd-08-2018-131
Authors are guest editors of special issue of Journal to Place Management and Development.
Special Issue: Grassroots Festivals and Place Making
Journal Article
(2018)
Special Issue: Grassroots Festivals and Place Making. Journal of Place Management and Development, 11(3),
Authors are editors of the special issue to Journal of Place Management and Development.