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• Commissioning and funding – how to support monitoring and evaluation which
allows for, and learns from, experimentation and failure
• Creative development of best practice – through enhanced opportunities and
frameworks for interprofessional knowledge exchange

The project is led by Guildhall School Research Professor John Sloboda OBE, in
partnership with co-investigators in the UK, Belgium, Columbia and Finland, and is funded
by the Arts and Humanities Research Council together with the International Platform for
Social Impact of Making Music (www.simm-platform.eu).

The project aims to connect directly with musicians who have worked in this area ‘at the
coal face’ on a regular basis, so that their experiences and insights can more fully inform
the wider community of practice, of commissioning and funding, and particularly of training.

All members of the research team work in arts higher education, where it has become a
priority to understand how best to develop the curriculum to support the professional
development of resilient but reflective socially engaged artists.

Professor John Sloboda said: ‘This is a uniquely challenging time for musicians all over the
world. We really want to hear and amplify the voices of working musicians, mostly
freelance, whose skills and energies make this delicate and often challenging work flourish.
Socially engaged arts work is an increasingly prominent part of the cultural landscape.
Distilling and sharing the insights of those who practice is a vital part of ensuring its future
flourishing.’

The survey is based online and takes around 30 minutes to complete. For more information
visit: gsmd.ac.uk/socialimpactcall