Culture and heritage are the sinews of a society. In an era marked by rapid change, ambitious and critical cultural leaders are required to foster the cultural core of a sustainable society.
Culture defines humanity.
Managing the valuation and transmission of culture through policy,
entrepreneurship, and education across generations is therefore a
key responsibility for a sustainable society. In our modern
society, culture has to be negotiated as it is shaped by
digitisation and new media, ethnic and cultural diversity, changing
audiences and economic circumstances, dwindling public funds, and a
loss of shared historical awareness. The mission of the Research
Master's track Cultural Leadership is to train its students to
conduct academic research into processes of cultural leadership. We
equip them with essential scholarly expertise as well as analytical
and strategic skills, so that they may carry culture forward in a
critical, sustainable, and creative manner, and ultimately become
cultural leaders themselves.Culture defines humanity. Managing the
valuation and transmission of culture through policy,
entrepreneurship, and education across generations is therefore a
key responsibility for a sustainable society and a resilient
democracy.
Our research programme identifies cultural leadership as any
cultural practice creating or strengthening interactions between
the arts and societal debates in a local, national, or
transnational context.
It addresses topics such as digitisation and new media, ethnic and
cultural diversity, changing audiences and economic circumstances,
dwindling historical awareness and political support, democratic
empowerment.
The mission of the Research Master's track Cultural Leadership is
to train its students to conduct academic research into processes
of cultural leadership, both in organisations and in the
international political context. The curriculum will equip you with
essential scholarly expertise as well as analytical and strategic
skills, so that you may carry culture forward in a critical,
sustainable, and creative manner, and ultimately become a cultural
leader yourself.
The master Cultural Leadership is a cooperative endeavour of several departments within the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen. Its teaching staff includes Katherine Watson, our Cultural Leader in Residence.
