Outputs (14)

Understanding the audience experience of contemporary visual arts at Geevor Mine World Heritage Site : a dialogue between a contemporary artist and a sociologist (2020)
Book Chapter
Bagnall, G., & Randall, J. (2020). Understanding the audience experience of contemporary visual arts at Geevor Mine World Heritage Site : a dialogue between a contemporary artist and a sociologist. In N. Cass, G. Park, & A. Powell (Eds.), Contemporary Art in Heritage Spaces (166-182). Leeds, UK: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429053498-14

This chapter examines the outcomes of collaboration between an artist (Randall) and a sociologist (Bagnall) to explore how the use of contemporary visual art might engage audiences and generate new knowledge and understanding of an industrial heritag... Read More about Understanding the audience experience of contemporary visual arts at Geevor Mine World Heritage Site : a dialogue between a contemporary artist and a sociologist.

A penny for your thoughts : the practice of rewarding research participants with shopping vouchers (2017)
Other
Mann, G., Dayson, K., & Bagnall, G. (2017). A penny for your thoughts : the practice of rewarding research participants with shopping vouchers

This briefing addresses whether giving shopping vouchers to research participants in receipt of government welfare benefits will be harmful if they have to declare it to benefit entitlement officials or if it causes them to exceed the amount they are... Read More about A penny for your thoughts : the practice of rewarding research participants with shopping vouchers.

Branded app implementation at the London symphony orchestra (2016)
Journal Article
Gosling, V., Crawford, G., Bagnall, G., & Light, B. (2016). Branded app implementation at the London symphony orchestra. Arts and the Market, 6(1), 2-16. https://doi.org/10.1108/AAM-08-2013-0012

This paper considers the key findings of a yearlong collaborative research project focusing on the London Symphony Orchestra’s development, implementation and testing of a branded smartphone app. This app was designed to primarily sell discounted tic... Read More about Branded app implementation at the London symphony orchestra.

An orchestral audience : classical music and continued patterns of distinction (2014)
Journal Article
Crawford, G., Gosling, V., Bagnall, G., & Light, B. (2014). An orchestral audience : classical music and continued patterns of distinction. Cultural Sociology, 8(4), 483-500. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749975514541862

This paper considers the key findings of a yearlong collaborative research project focusing on the audience of the London Symphony Orchestra and their introduction of a new mobile telephone (‘app’) ticketing system. A mixed-method approach was employ... Read More about An orchestral audience : classical music and continued patterns of distinction.

Is there an app for that? A case study of the potentials and limitations of the participatory turn and networked publics for classical music audience engagement (2014)
Journal Article
Crawford, G., Gosling, V., Bagnall, G., & Light, B. (2014). Is there an app for that? A case study of the potentials and limitations of the participatory turn and networked publics for classical music audience engagement. Information, Communication and Society, 17(9), 1072-1085. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2013.877953

The participatory turn, fuelled by discourses and rhetoric regarding social media, and in the
aftermath of the dot.com crash of the early 2000s, enrols to some extent an idea of being
able to deploy networks to achieve institutional aims. The arts... Read More about Is there an app for that? A case study of the potentials and limitations of the participatory turn and networked publics for classical music audience engagement.

The imperial war museum’s social interpretation project (2013)
Report
Bagnall, G., Light, B., Crawford, G., Gosling, V., Rushton, C., & Peterson, T. (2013). The imperial war museum’s social interpretation project

This report represents the output from research undertaken by University of Salford and MTM
London as part of the joint Digital R&D Fund for Arts and Culture, operated by Nesta, Arts
Council England and the AHRC. University of Salford and MTM Lon... Read More about The imperial war museum’s social interpretation project.

Dimensions of power : a Bourdieusian approach to control and influence in the voluntary sector (2011)
Thesis
McGovern, P. Dimensions of power : a Bourdieusian approach to control and influence in the voluntary sector. (Thesis). Salford : University of Salford

This extended case study investigates locally-founded voluntary self-help groups for
people with chronic disease and how they change over time. It explores a self-help
group and its partnerships with five local organisations. The aims are both to r... Read More about Dimensions of power : a Bourdieusian approach to control and influence in the voluntary sector.

Place, elective belonging and the diffused audience (2007)
Book Chapter
Longhurst, B., Bagnall, G., & Savage, M. (2007). Place, elective belonging and the diffused audience. In J. Gray, C. Sandvoss, & C. Harrington (Eds.), Fandom: identities and communities in a mediated world (125-138). New York, USA: New York University Press

Globalisation and belonging (2004)
Book
Longhurst, B., Bagnall, G., & Savage, M. (2004). Globalisation and belonging. London: Sage Publications Ltd

Children, belonging and social capital: the PTA and middle class narratives of social involvement in the North-West of England (2003)
Journal Article
Bagnall, G., Longhurst, B., & Savage, M. (2003). Children, belonging and social capital: the PTA and middle class narratives of social involvement in the North-West of England. Sociological Research Online, 8(4),

This paper uses data gathered from an ESRC funded research project on social networks, social capital and lifestyle to provide an account of narratives of belonging and social involvement. Drawing on data from 88 in-depth interviews carried out in th... Read More about Children, belonging and social capital: the PTA and middle class narratives of social involvement in the North-West of England.