Research updates
New INVENT article: Cultural practices and political values in Finland
Sara Sivonen and Riie Heikkilä from the Finnish INVENT team published a journal article, in which they explored the limits and boundaries between cultural practices and political values in contemporary Finland. The article was published by the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology. Cultural practices exhibit clear social stratification while also being intertwined with political values, with previous research
New research alert: Religiosity in Croatia and Serbia
Danijela Gavrilović, a member of the Serbian Invent team, recently published an article titled “A Comparative Analysis of Religiosity in Croatia and Serbia,” in Sociologija. In her research, Gavrilović explores various dimensions of religiosity, including denomination, self-declared religiosity, and religious practices, among the citizens of Croatia and Serbia. Utilizing data from empirical studies conducted over the past fifteen years, such
New research alert: Trust repertoires and the reception of institutional responses to the COVID-19 crisis in Europe
INVENT member Marc Verboord from the Dutch INVENT team published a new article in the International Journal of Comparative Sociology on the role of institutional trust in current European societies. Based on a secondary data analysis of Eurobarometer data (response rate 39.6%), it maps institutional trust repertoires and analyzes their consequences for a crisis that disturbed public life immensely in
New Research Alert: Tolerants versus traditionalists: making sense of online conversations on the new Finnish flagship library Oodi
INVENT members Riie Heikkilä and Ossi Sirkka from the Finnish team have published a new article in the International Journal of Cultural Policy. The article builds on data scraping research conducted by INVENT and its abstract reads as follows: Public libraries play a unique role in preserving, maintaining, and distributing cultural capital freely. Currently, public libraries are said to be undergoing
OUT NOW! Towards a Social Turn in Cultural Policy: A Policymaker’s Guidebook
We have alluded to it in INVENT’s third newsletter: the production of our Policymaker’s Guidebook. We are happy to announce that it is now available on our website! So, what is the Policymaker’s Guidebook? The INVENT Policymaker’s Guidebook is a concrete tool for cultural policymakers and practitioners, offering guidance on advancing the societal values of culture postulated by the New
New Research Alert: Definitely (not) belonging to culture: Europeans’ evaluations of the contents and limits of culture
INVENT members Semi Purhonen (FI), Marc Verboord (NL), Ossi Sirkka (FI), Nete Nørgaard Kristensen (DK), and Susanne Janssen (NL) have published a new article in Poetics Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts. The article builds on survey research conducted by INVENT and its abstract reads as follows: Despite the long history of debating its meaning and its current unprecedented ubiquity both in
New video: Digitalization and Digital Culture
In this video INVENT researcher Nete Nørgaard Kristensen from the Danish team tells us all about the megatrend of digitalization and about digital cultural participation. Learn about the democratization of culture and the digital divide. Have we made you curious? Read more about the topic of digitalization in our report or our policy brief III
New video: What Culture Can Mean for Well-Being
In this video INVENT researcher Sylvia Holla from the Dutch team explains the connection between culture and well-being. She draws on interview research to show that the benefits of culture for wellbeing range far and wide. Want to know more about what culture means for well-being? You might be interested to read our policy brief II or the case study
NEW VIDEO: Culture below the surface, the Iceberg analogy explained
In this video INVENT researcher Alysa Karels from the Dutch team explains the analogy of the Cultural Iceberg — a symbol INVENT has adopted in its own branding. Discover both the visible and invisible aspects of culture. Visit our project website and find out how culture below the surface is made visible and insightful through various forms of research.
New video: Diversity and Inclusion in the cultural sector
In this video INVENT researcher Avi Astor from the Spanish team discusses the topic of diversity and inclusion. Learn about the importance of prioritizing representation and removing barriers to cultural participation for people with diverse backgrounds. If you’d like to read more about this topic: check out one of our Dutch case studies called Re-thinking the museum from the bottom-up.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 870691