Acting on Cultural Policy / New Directions in Cultural Policy Research (PDF)

"Jane Woddis focuses upon arts practitioners' involvement in cultural policy, situating her research problem within a general framework of theories of democratisation. Very few - if any - similar studies have existed until now. This is an impressive contribution to international cultural policy research."-Professor Emeritus Per Mangset, University of South-Eastern, Norway

"This book intriguingly unpacks the multiple roles artists play in cultural policy-making. It illuminates the historical and contemporary involvement of theatre practitioners, and adds to much-needed conceptual knowledge about cultural workers' self-organized policy contributions. Woddis offers an insightful read for our interdisciplinary community of cultural policy researchers."-Dr Friederike Landau-Donnelly, Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands

"Woddis's book is a rich, detailed, vivid account of a story that deserves to be much better known: the way playwrights have successfully organised to protect and improve their working conditions and, in the process, reshaped contemporary British theatre."-Professor Dan Rebellato, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

Jane Woddis has worked professionally in the arts for many years and is an Associate Fellow in the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies, University of Warwick, UK. She is co-editor of Artists' Narratives in Cultural Policy and Management Research, a special issue of the Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy (2022).