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Research and policy

Our research and advocacy informs our creative programming and policy advice


  • Craft research
  • Craft policy

  • Market for Craft report (2020)

We constantly gather information from across the craft sector and creative industries. This enables us to provide accessible and robust evidence that demonstrates powerfully the value of craft, from heritage to contemporary, from traditional to innovative.

Research

We collect intelligence in order to chart and anticipate economic, social, cultural and political trends in craft.

We regularly commission and publish research in order to make recommendations to government and partners and to advocate for the value of contemporary craft more widely.

Alongside these larger pieces of research we regularly publish shorter research reports on topics relevant to the sector. All our research is disseminated widely in order to support dialogue and debate across the sector, underpinned by evidence-based research.

We also encourage and support other organisations to contribute to the field of craft research. We have active partnerships with a number of academic institutions and non-academic organisations, and we actively welcome potential partnerships in this area.

Summary of Research Findings

Click below for a quick summary of research findings about UK craft.

Research includes:

  • Craft economy: Market for craft (2020), Craft and social enterprise (2019), Who Makes? (2018), Supporting makers to export (2017-2019), Measuring the craft economy (2014), Craft and enterprise (2012) and Consuming craft (2010).
  • Education and training: Crafting professional practice through higher education (2018), Studying Craft (2014-2016) and Our Future is in the Making. A Education Manifesto for Craft and Making
  • Innovation: Innovation through craft (2016), Bio Salon paper (2015), Crafting capital (2011) and From cell to system (2012).
  • Diversity: From visibility to mattering (2020) and Craft Expertise (2020)

Crafts Council research

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Our research strategy

Read our strategy and prospectus

Policy work

We keep up to date with the cultural, economic, political and technological policies that affect the crafts sector and individual makers.

Any changes to policies that we perceive to have immediate or long-term implications for the craft sector we record, share via our monthly Policy Brief and make a formal response.


Crafts Council policy work

Read the latest Crafts Council policy brief

Crafts Council consultation responses

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Crafts Council
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London N1 9BY

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