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Inspiring Moments
Creative Wellbeing Fund Report
The Creative Wellbeing fund supported six projects across Scotland and brought together learning communities and creative partners to work together to find innovative solutions to increasing learners' wellbeing and a wider sense of achievement...
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Inspiring Moments
Creative Curriculum Fund
The purpose of this fund was to support secondary schools to embed creativity across their thinking, behaviours and systems for the long-term benefits to learners, whilst tackling a current curriculum challenge specific to the individual school...
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Research and Policy
A Culture Strategy for Scotland
A Culture Strategy for Scotland shows how important culture is to Scotland’s prosperity and sets the future direction for supporting culture in Scotland...
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Research and Policy
Career Education Standard (3-18)
The standard recognises the journeys children and young people make as they learn about the world of work from the early years to the senior phase...
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Research and Policy
The National Parent Forum of Scotland Guide to Creativity
The National Parent Forum of Scotland nutshell guide, with a focus on Creativity, Enterprise and Employability, is aimed at parents with children of all ages...
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Research and Policy
Skills Investment Plan for Scotland’s Creative Industries sector
The influence and impact that the Creative Industries sector has on Scotland – both economically and culturally – is deep and varied...
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Research and Policy
Creativity Vs Robots
NESTA report that explores future automation and creativity in the UK and US workforces...
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Research and Policy
Coffitivity
A team of researchers, led by Ravi Mehta at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign tested the effects of varying levels of noise on participants’ creative thinking skills, proving that moderately loud background noise boosts creative thinking...
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Research and Policy
The Future of Jobs Report 2020 - World Economic Forum
The Future of Jobs report maps the jobs and skills of the future, tracking the pace of change...
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Inspiring Moments
Above Scotland - Architecture and Design Scotland
Above Scotland took an aerial photography exhibition as the starting point for an ambitious creative journey, empowering schools to make a difference to their local environment of such ambition that it could be photographed from the air...
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Research and Policy
Scientists explain how happiness makes us less creative
Various studies and opinions explore how both positive and negative emotions foster creativity, but that extreme emotions of either kind can hinder it...
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Research and Policy
Education Reimagined: The Future of Learning
The pandemic has disturbed all sectors of society and revealed its fault lines—especially in our education systems...
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Research and Policy
Beyond insects and robots: designing an education fit for the future
How can we make the most of booming employment rates and improvements in artificial intelligence...
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Research and Policy
Global Creativity Gap
Infographic of global research by Adobe exploring perceptions of creativity in the workplace and economy...
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Research and Policy
Career Conversations in a Nutshell
National parent Forum of Scotland guide to career conversations...
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Quotes
“It goes far beyond the traditional world of art and music...”
—Shantanu Narayen, Adobe President and CEO
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Inspiring Moments
Mutual Curiosity: A look at participatory practice in Scotland
Scotland’s cultural sector has an excellent reputation for its participatory practice – artists and people working creatively together in communities, education contexts and other areas of public life such as social care and justice...
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Research and Policy
Artists and teachers resource
This ArtWorks Scotland resource has been developed for teachers and artists looking to embed creativity into school plans, offering relevant policy, evaluation and funding information, tips on planning together and case studies from artists and teachers who have worked in partnership...
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Research and Policy
Data Generator - Creative & Cultural Industries
The Data generator is an online service designed to help individuals and businesses in the creative sector to access the latest industry research and analysis...
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Research and Policy
SQA Qualifications - Creative and Cultural Skills
There are approximately 3,000 businesses in Scotland employing 57,000 people within the Creative and Cultural Skills sector...