QMU MA in Arts Festival and Cultural Management

31/07/2025

Contact our friendly Clearing Team to find out more.

14/05/2025

A current research project on developing an Arts Management Union: Please do complete the survey!

https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/qmu/1

The research topic is labour, workplace, and interpersonal issues that face arts managers and arts workers. The topic should be researched to expand on the academic literature that has detected a bullying crisis in the arts, cultural and creative sectors. The arts sector also suffers from precarious work, unsafe conditions, low wages, and other labour issues. Although these issues are common in many sectors, they can be quite extreme within the arts, as shown in the relevant academic literature. The lack of unions for arts managers/workers may exacerbate the issues. The nature of labour issues in the arts can be idiosyncratic, and an organization specifically focused on it and prepared to address the problems in tailored ways would benefit the industry. The precariousness of arts work and arts organizations does not look to be improving any time soon and will likely worsen due to global trends. An international alliance of arts management professionals and workers may be necessary to save the sector or at least keep it afloat. With arts management professionals quitting or leaving the sector at a seemingly heightened rate, a union may also be necessary to improve working conditions to retain staff.

The principal aim for the study is to test the feasibility of creating a union that represents arts managers and arts workers.

04/06/2024

Alchemy Film and Arts are seeking trustees: see more about the call here - https://alchemyfilmandarts.org.uk/opportunity-trustees/

If you've never been on a Board of Trustees, can I strongly encourage you to consider this?! Its a great way to get insights on how cultural activities work, but also to lead and guide the future of an arts organisation. Its also a great way to make networks and find out about opportunities!

Please pass this on to other people, if you think it relevant!

CALL FOR TRUSTEES Alchemy Film & Arts are seeking committed and critically engaged individuals to join our Board of Trustees. As a charity, Alchemy places transparency, accountability and sustainability at the heart of what we do. Our constitution limits trustees’ terms to six years, and while we ...

03/06/2024

Good people: join us! JOIN US AT Alchemy Film & Arts!!!

CALL FOR TRUSTEES Alchemy Film & Arts are seeking committed and critically engaged individuals to join our Board of Trustees. As a charity, Alchemy places transparency, accountability and sustainability at the heart of what we do. Our constitution limits trustees’ terms to six years, and while we ...

20/05/2024

Some great opportunities with the lovely Edinburgh Art Festival folks!

06/05/2024

A really lovely student story from alumni - we are so humbled to have such amazing students! Thank you, Rayanne!!!!!!

While she had a well-established career in Arts Management in Canada, Rayanne Haines knew that in order to progress in the industry she would need a qualification to make her stand out. That is when she decided to pursue the MA Arts, Festival and Cultural Management at Queen Margaret University.

25/01/2024

Have you submitted a proposal for our 2024 conference yet? Submissions are open until February 1, 2024. Find more details at artsadministration.org/conference.

25/01/2024

What a **SUPER** bunch of PhD Projects: YOU SHOULD TOTALLY APPLY!

(Yes, i'm talking to you!)

Bursary topics in the Centre for Applied Social Sciences as part the of the 2024 PhD Bursary at QMU, Edinburgh.

07/11/2023

A great job: you gonnae go for it?!?

The purpose of this role is to develop, produce and manage the delivery of the areas of the SCO’s Creative Learning programme which focus on engaging child

26/10/2023

What a nice PhD - interested?!?! This one offers a "fully-funded PhD opportunity exploring community arts-based activities in the relationship between caregiver and care recipient in later life."

PhD Project - Understanding the role of community arts-based activities in the relationship between caregiver and care recipient in later life: A coproduced study at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com

19/10/2023

well, looky here at this great conference!

2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 5-6 December 2023. Podgorica Montenegrin (Serb/BH/Cro) English & Italian language/hybrid: live and online Conference Goals: Art has always reflected the cultural, political, and social reality of the time in which it was created. Whether it captures the struggles of marg...