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In early 2025, DC Research delivered a range of workshops on behalf of Welsh Government to support museums (as well as libraries and archives) in Wales around two key themes. This included workshops about admissions charging for museums – building on national research that we carried out for AIM in 2023 (https://aim-museums.co.uk/resources/admissions-pricing-policy-and-its-impact/), as well as workshops about the AIM Economic Impact Toolkit (https://aim-museums.co.uk/resources/economic-impact-of-independent-museum-sector/).

Bòrd na Gàidhlig (https://www.gaidhlig.scot/en/) commissioned DC Research – in partnership with Dr Douglas Chalmers, Prof Mike Danson and Eilidh Danson – to ‘Identifying the links between Gaelic and wellbeing’. The primary objective was “to identify the place of Gaelic in the recognised indicators of wellbeing, and to identify its place in assessing changes in wellbeing”. Having considered which wellbeing indicators might involve Gaelic, the study investigated how Gaelic might enhance the wellbeing of individuals, language networks, local communities, and Scotland’s national wellbeing. Consideration was also given to how such enhancement could be measured, drawing upon evidence from other minority languages where possible. The report and executive summary are available here: https://www.gaidhlig.scot/en/our-work/research/reports-and-papers/

The Royal High School Preservation Trust (LINK) and National Centre for Music commissioned DC Research to carry out a research study that sought to ‘Assess the Economic, Social and Cultural Impact of the RHSPT Project’ – the primary aim of which was to establish the anticipated economic, social, and cultural impacts that the RHSPT project will have once fully operational.

The refreshed Skills Investment Plan (SIP) for the Historic Environment was launched this week. Collaborating with Mike Danson, we did some work to support the refresh. Our review report is available here alongside the refreshed SIP from the Historic Environment Scotland.

Newly published – 2023 research about impact of admissions charging for museums. The research about admissions charging for museums that DC Research and Durnin Research carried out for the Association of Independent Museums (AIM), in partnership with Arts Council England, Museums Galleries Scotland, the Welsh Government, the National Museum Directors’ Council, and Art Fund, has now been published.