When the lights go back on...

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These weeks and months of lockdown have been a long time for arts organisations and their audiences to be separated. To help venues get ready for welcoming their audiences back again, researchers from the Sheffield Performer and Audience Research Centre (SPARC) are working with your local arts organisations to find out what you've missed about attending theatre, music, and other arts events during this time. We'd like to hear about how you've stayed in touch with your local arts scene, whether you've been involved in arts and creative activities of your own, and what you're most looking forward to when your favourite venue opens its doors again. We'll use some of your responses to help spread the word that the audience is "Glad to be back...", and to help venues prepare to welcome you in ways that make you feel safe and confident.

This survey follows a three year research project on Understanding Audiences for the Contemporary Arts: you can read more about that work on the SPARC website, where you can access the free handbook that summarises our research findings http://www.sparc.dept.shef.ac.uk/research/uaca/handbook/ We worked with over 40 arts organisations around the UK and now hope that our research can be helpful to them in tackling the challenges of emerging from lockdown. We look forward to reading your responses - and to thank you for your time, you can opt to leave your email address at the end of the survey to be included in a prize draw to win one of five £10 vouchers.

Data protection information

All the information that you provide in this survey will be kept strictly confidential and will only be accessible to members of the research team. Use of your responses in any written report or public presentation relating to the project will be anonymised. All data will be stored securely on a protected drive, and will be destroyed two years after the end of the project.

According to data protection legislation, we are required to inform you that the legal basis we are applying in order to process your personal data is that ‘processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest’ (Article 6(1)(e)). Further information. including details about how and why the University processes your personal information, how we keep your information secure, and your legal rights (including how to complain if you feel that your personal information has not been handled correctly), can be found here: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/govern/data-protection/privacy/general

The University of Sheffield will act as the Data Controller for this study. This means that the University is responsible for looking after your information and using it properly. In order to collect and use your personal information as part of this research project, we must have a basis in law to do so. The basis that we are using is that the research is ‘a task in the public interest’. As we will be collecting some data that is defined in the legislation as more sensitive (information about your ethnicity), we also need to let you know that we are applying an additional condition in law: that the use of your data is 'processing is necessary for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific research purposes or statistical purposes' (9(2)(j)).

This research has been ethically approved via the University of Sheffield’s Ethics Review Procedure, as administered by the Department of Music. The project has received no external funding. Due to the nature of this research it is very likely that other researchers may find the data collected to be useful in answering future research questions. We will ask for your explicit consent for your data to be shared in this way.

If you have any questions or concerns about how your data will be used, please email the Sheffield Performer and Audience Research Centre (sparc@sheffield.ac.uk) or the Head of Music, Dr Simon Keegan-Phipps (s.keegan-phipps@sheffield.ac.uk).

Please respond to the following questions to confirm your understanding of how your data will be used and stored.

Informed consent *

I confirm that I have read and understood the information above explaining details of the research project.

I understand that I can email sparc@sheffield.ac.uk if I have any concerns or questions.

I understand that my participation is voluntary.

I understand that in any written report or public presentation of this survey, any responses I give will be anonymised.

I understand that the personal data and full responses I provide in this survey will be accessed by the research team.

I agree for the data collected from me to be used in future research and publications by the researchers.

I agree for the data collected from me to be made available in a secure research data archive for use by other researchers.

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