BOP is working with Kent County Council and SEEDA to develop a web-based GIS tool that maps Kent cultural assets alongside the key data that is relevant to the county’s cultural and creative sector. The aim of the tool is to facilitate planning by the County Council, local districts and cultural organisations in Kent. We are also using it to host a Cultural Evidence Base that shows the ‘baseline position’ and can measure progress. (BOP with GHK and MapAnalysis)

Helping Plymouth Library Services make the case for greater funding and further recognition of their existing activity. This includes in depth research of the local and national context, as well as facilitating workshops to help them to develop their own strategic vision.

An investigation of the potential use and demand for Ocean, a building located in the centre of Hackney and currently owned by the Borough Council; this includes looking at private sector options alongside local community cultural uses and advising on the implications both financial and other (with CBRE).

Examination of the potential to establish a ‘cultural quarter’ within the Top of Town district of Basingstoke, working with the Council and its partners to identify the rationale, components, delivery mechanisms and economic benefits of a cultural quarter or related cultural investment programme.

One of seven research projects that together form the £1.3m Manchester Independent Economic Review. The project analyses the innovation system as a series of networks and relationships. The findings from a range of research activities – a phone survey of 600 businesses, an online panel survey, and depth interviews – are analysed using an innovative network analysis and modelling process to identify strengths and weaknesses in the innovation system across four sectors (with Volterra consult).