Cultural impact includes contributions to museums, galleries, performance, broadcast media, creative writing, conservation of cultural heritage, and shifts in public understanding of history, identity and the arts. It is particularly central to the humanities and creative arts disciplines, where outputs may themselves be performances, exhibitions or creative works. Cultural impact assessment uses audience-engagement statistics, expert testimony, critical reception, and case-study narratives. REF impact case studies in the humanities provide extensive worked examples.
References
- Arts and Humanities Research Council impact toolkit. REF 2021 impact case study database.