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visit my local MP surgery

tamaraashley — 2023-12-19 13:45:36 UTC

Visit my local MP

2023-12-19 13:45:43 UTC

Make sure to report back to SDR next meeting to maintain united front

2023-12-19 13:45:52 UTC

Second Gillie on lobbying the labour party on arts in education policy.

2023-12-19 13:45:54 UTC

Contact my local MP

2023-12-19 13:46:01 UTC

gilliekleiman — 2023-12-19 13:46:08 UTC

Try and organise a meeting with Bridget Phillipson, Shadow Secretary of State for Education (could do with someone in her constituency writing to her, which is Houghton and Sunderland South)

have a meeting with the VC or as high up as possible to discuss - update on sector wide issue for dance and arts HE

suesmith9 — 2023-12-19 13:46:11 UTC

2023-12-19 13:46:13 UTC

create a working group from dance HE and wider courses to be able to lobby investors and funders to advocate the value and worth of dance within the wider context of society to their partners

Happy to pick up conversation with Lizzie Crump (What Next) and others (Cultural Learning Alliance) on this

2023-12-19 13:46:18 UTC

Write to my MP and quote reports shared here

2023-12-19 13:46:18 UTC

find out who is the labour rep for my constituency and write to them re arts in education

2023-12-19 13:46:34 UTC

2023-12-19 13:46:40 UTC

advocate at wider consortium meetings and ask them to join and support our cause

share with this group the contact for the shadow culture secretary

tamaraashley — 2023-12-19 13:46:58 UTC

Meet with my institution's Marketing and Outreach teams to ensure the dance course is being promoted equally

2023-12-19 13:47:11 UTC

Student Recruitment Plan

2023-12-19 13:47:14 UTC

A collaborative student recruitment plan across institutions that engages with developing unique programming (rather than competitive duplicate programming) across institutions that will continue to draw in new and diverse student groups.

Ask other (non dance) academics to write HE senior leadership expressing the value dance has for their subject area

jennahubbard13 — 2023-12-19 13:47:25 UTC

2023-12-19 13:47:33 UTC

would it be useful to formulate a letter format we could all use to send to our local MPs?

Write to local Labour MP

2023-12-19 13:47:35 UTC

Keep students and colleagues informed about the current state of affairs and try to raise this in a future university-wide/school-wide management meeting

2023-12-19 13:47:40 UTC

vipartpradid — 2023-12-19 13:47:42 UTC

Is there a massive matrix/framework that maps out dance-related skills with various industries - in the CI and beyond? (will look for one)

a template for sector wide support needs to be constructed for us all to use to send to organisations and mp etc.

2023-12-19 13:47:45 UTC

Lobby local MP and also reach out to dance community about developing research support structure outside of university structures

2023-12-19 13:48:05 UTC

Keep the velocity for our current university campaign to save our course + site this within this frame

lisakendall5 — 2023-12-19 13:48:30 UTC

social media campaign to be devised and get it trending

2023-12-19 13:48:35 UTC

How do we lobby our VC when the numbers are against us? We need to advocate for buying time - can the University be more creative with how they deal with the numbers game? Issues round recruitment could be better managed.

2023-12-19 13:48:36 UTC

visit local MP

lisakendall5 — 2023-12-19 13:48:46 UTC

Connect with government affiliated performing arts institutions

2023-12-19 13:48:49 UTC

Create lines of communication that help us understand what we need to do to preserve funding for educational opportunities for students.

People Dancing Board will reflect on ideas/points shared here and continue to connect with OneDanceUK/DanceHE/Society dance Research to keep energised actions going inlcuding getting the statement and any developed campaign materials in front of the right people

suesmith9 — 2023-12-19 13:48:52 UTC

2023-12-19 13:49:06 UTC

Email Cat Smith, my Labour MP for Lancaster and Fleetwood.

Email All-Party Parliamentary Group for Dance

gilliekleiman — 2023-12-19 13:49:27 UTC

I wonder if there's a way to be really organised about this, rather than all of us emailing Thangam Debbonaire? And also thinking about not doing 'but what about dance' but working with e.g. Drama HE to make a wider case about arts education - I think the desperation for our own field/jobs, as real and understandable as it is, might be a turnoff for politicians

vipartpradid — 2023-12-19 13:49:38 UTC

Apply for funding for research (PhD or otherwise) on the career paths of dance graduates in the past 12-16 years?

Perhaps having a lunchtime conversation at the PSi conference in London (June) to also see how we could also find international support/share experiences (DSA is in Argentina, that would be an option too).

2023-12-19 13:49:38 UTC

Write to Akram Khan

2023-12-19 13:49:39 UTC

report back to APAC to ask for their support and backing

2023-12-19 13:49:55 UTC

Invite local MP to visit and attend student events

2023-12-19 13:50:03 UTC

Connect with colleagues across the arts

2023-12-19 13:50:04 UTC

get a sense of support in principle for dance/theatre/music (shrinking recruitment) from VC to weather next few years then re-evaluate. The dialogue is important

suesmith9 — 2023-12-19 13:50:19 UTC

Create further discussions groups as this at conferences

2023-12-19 13:50:28 UTC

2023-12-19 13:50:31 UTC

Continue to facilitate opportunities to meet with and talk with the private dance education sector to understand their needs.

look at inspiration from other countries where their Dance, Arts and Culture policies are much much stronger then ours and use that to write a letter to local labour MP.

2023-12-19 13:50:59 UTC

ask for parents support of our students - why do they think dance is valuable for their child to study

2023-12-19 14:02:13 UTC

perhaps involve Tom Kokona in the conversation and also ID-company Ryan Jenkins, Alexander Whitley who is currently developing Dance Digital Tool for schools and colleges, as well as Wayne McGregor, Akram Khan, and others. Should we get support from these entrepreneurs, as well as our own research profiles to champion dance, arts and research beyond HE advocacy - where HE plays an important part to prepare future dance entrepreneurs.

2023-12-19 14:06:44 UTC

gain support from The International Dance Council CID?

2023-12-19 14:55:46 UTC