Dr Kirsty Sedgman

Research summary

Kirsty is an award-winning scholar specialising in audience research and cultural value.

Her work investigates how people find value in cultural participation. How do they experience and respond to the things they see? How are these pleasures and disappointments made meaningful within their lives? And what can all this tell us about the role of the arts in society, as well as the relationship between cultural institutions, power, identity, and place?

Her 2016 book Locating the Audience (Intellect) was the first to explore how people developed relationships with a new cultural institution at the time of its formation: the then brand-new National Theatre ...

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Recent publications

• Sedgman, K, 2019, ‘Challenges of cultural industry knowledge exchange in live performance audience research’. Cultural Trends, vol 28., pp. 103-117
• Sedgman, K, 2019, ‘On Rigour in Theatre Audience Research’. Contemporary Theatre Review.

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