{"id":5157,"date":"2022-11-10T14:47:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T14:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=5157"},"modified":"2023-07-01T21:58:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T20:58:31","slug":"school-of-arts-forms-new-partnership-to-address-ethnic-and-gender-imbalance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2022\/11\/10\/school-of-arts-forms-new-partnership-to-address-ethnic-and-gender-imbalance\/","title":{"rendered":"School of Arts forms new partnership to address ethnic and gender imbalance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Arts has strengthened its connections with key industry and creative bodies with the creation of a brand new funded strategic partnership between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/subjects\/music-audio-technology\">Music and Audio Technology<\/a> at Kent, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries\">Institute for Cultural and Creative Industries<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blim.org.uk\/\">Black Lives in Music<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/milapfest.com\/\">Milap<\/a> (the UK\u2019s leading Indian arts and culture company) and <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalyouthjazz.co.uk\/\">National Youth Jazz Collective (NYJC)<\/a>. The partnership will support a <strong>ground-breaking initiative addressing the imbalance of ethnic and gender representation in music education<\/strong>, including 3 annual conferences, development days, webinars and creation of new works.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/24\/herbert-ruth\">Dr Ruth Herbert<\/a>, Senior Lecturer in Music and Audio Technology and trustee of NYJC, was a key part in the development of the partnership. &#8220;This is such an exciting initiative and there\u2019s been such enthusiasm from all partners in getting involved. Everyone agrees this needs to happen!\u201d she says, reflecting on the project\u2019s origins. \u201cWe\u2019ll tap into wider networks of project partners, hubs and organisations across the country, so the access and reach is really broad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/news\/5054\/funding-news-women-in-contemporary-uk-jazz-artistic-voice-gender-and-professional-identity\">Ruth successfully applied for funding<\/a> to support a CHASE\/AHRC funded Collaborative Doctoral Award titled \u2018<em>Women in Contemporary UK Jazz: Artistic Voice, Gender and Professional Identity\u2019<\/em> \u2013 the first to involve a music education National Portfolio Organisation partnership.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership represents both a continuation and extension of the programmes at the School of Arts to promote diversity. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/544\/double-oliver\">Oliver Double<\/a>, Head of the School of Arts, said: \u201cIf you love music, you&#8217;ll know that our musical culture would be much poorer without the work of diverse creators. With that in mind, the School of Arts is delighted to support an initiative that will help to better represent diversity in music education.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5159\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5159\" style=\"width: 651px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/files\/2022\/11\/Ruth-Herbert.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-5159\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/files\/2022\/11\/Ruth-Herbert.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with dark red har stands at a lecturn in a dimly lit room\" width=\"651\" height=\"366\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Ruth Herbert, Senior Lecturer in Music Performance and Music Psychology<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Arts has strengthened its connections with key industry and creative bodies with the creation of a brand new funded strategic partnership between &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2022\/11\/10\/school-of-arts-forms-new-partnership-to-address-ethnic-and-gender-imbalance\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76779,"featured_media":5158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[239510,124,9112,23163],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76779"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5157"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5163,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157\/revisions\/5163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}