Culture & Sport

How has COVID-19 Emergency Funding for the arts and culture Sectors in Northern Ireland been distributed?
Reading Time: < 1 minute By James Bamford & Karen McCallion This visualisation provides a snapshot of emergency funding provided to the arts and culture

How can our culture sector ever recover from COVID-19?
Reading Time: 9 minutes This article examines some of the risks which COVID-19 has posed to the culture and heritage sectors in Northern Ireland,

Is Northern Ireland ‘Open’ for business? Examining the social and economic impact of sporting events
Reading Time: 7 minutes This article draws on recent experiences of Government-funded sporting events in Northern Ireland (NI), highlighting a number of those events,

Measuring museum success: How and why?
Reading Time: 7 minutes Northern Ireland (NI) currently has 44 Accredited museums. But how does this compare with elsewhere and how should we go

Childhood obesity and inactivity – a lifelong problem?
Reading Time: 6 minutes By Lesley-Ann Black & Dan Hull This article examines levels of childhood obesity and inactivity in our children in Northern

What could the draft BBC Charter mean for Northern Ireland?
Reading Time: 4 minutes A draft BBC Charter and Framework Agreement has been published, but what’s in it for Northern Ireland and will proposed

What lies in store for the objects from our past?
Reading Time: 3 minutes During the last mandate, it was estimated that almost 1.5 million objects from archaeological sites in Northern Ireland lie in

Where has the culture and arts strategy got to?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Back in November 2015, prior to the re-structuring of departments, the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure published a consultation