Leila Jancovich
leilajancovich.bsky.social
Leila Jancovich
@leilajancovich.bsky.social
Professor of Cultural Policy and Participation at University of Leeds. Currently researching how we can better identify, acknowledge and learn from failure https://failspaceproject.co.uk. Also keen gardener as antidote to despair at our political system!
So it’s out! The article I wrote with @clp19.bsky.social and David Stevenson on Failures in impact evaluation is out now open access academic.oup.com/rev/article/...
Failures in impact evaluation
Abstract. While many definitions of research impact exist, what most share is a belief in the responsibility of research, and researchers, to support posit
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August 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Always a treat to read @thinkingpractice.bsky.social posts but double nice when it’s inspired by our students at @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Newsletter on yeses that changed my life. Why you should say yes to others. "That position and power... that rep: it was never only yours in the first place."

& how some bad things recently come from a need to unlearn binaries. CW: an ambiguous poem & a polemical playlist.
Everlasting Yeahs
and unlearning binaries
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June 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Thanks so much for your generosity to our students
@thinkingpractice.bsky.social and glad the session @universityofleeds.bsky.social made you write this!
Inspired by last week's 'speed networking' with students at Leeds Uni School of Performance & Cultural Industries some things cooking professionally taught me

Content warning: portraits of the artist as a young chef, v80s French toast, nut roast.

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A Few Things Cooking Professionally Taught Me
about work in the cultural sector
tacticsforthetightrope.substack.com
March 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Reposted by Leila Jancovich
“Is culture still bad for you?” I’m in @artsprofessional.co.uk previewing the new updated edition of Culture is bad for you www.artsprofessional.co.uk/feature/is-c...
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March 18, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Sharing new(ish) article by Dr Victoria Durrer UCD and me www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Thanks and feedback welcome
Negotiating between national and local policy on participation: local authority arts offices in Ireland
Focusing on the participation agenda, this paper explores the definitions, negotiations and implementation of cultural policy at the intersection of national policy aims and local level strategy. R...
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January 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Reposted by Leila Jancovich
CULTURE IS BAD FOR YOU LIVE! @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social 27th March 6.15-7.45pm, free entry if you buy the new edition of the book! AND Gab from the white pube is interviewing us too! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/culture-is...
CULTURE IS BAD FOR YOU - Orian Brook, Dave O'Brien and Mark Taylor
Join us to celebrate the updated edition of CULTURE IS BAD FOR YOU, with the 3 authors in conversation with Gabrielle de la Puente
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January 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM