Richard Ings

Richard Ings has worked in the cultural sector for

over 25 years, initially as a funder and since 1991 as
an independent writer, researcher, evaluator, editor,
lecturer and consultant.
His clients have included the national and regional offices of Arts Council
Writing,
research and
England, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation,
the National Youth Agency, CapeUK , Artswork, Lewisham Education Arts
Network, NESTA , Creative Partnerships, the Conference of Drama Schools,
the Thames Valley Partnership, the National Youth Theatre, the Clod Ensemble,

arts consultancy
Protein Dance, the Roundhouse, the Grassmarket Project, LIFT, People’s Palace
Projects and Glyndebourne.

His commissions have been equally wide-ranging, as these examples suggest:

• editing and contributing to the first book on pricing in the arts
• publishing action research on improving the teaching of writing in primary school
• editing magazines on community dance, youth arts and arts education
• evaluating the impact of a knife crime awareness drama.

A selection of his publications can be seen at www.richardings.posterous.com.

Apart from his expertise in evaluating, promoting and disseminating good practice
across the arts in print, on the web and through conference presentations, Richard
has a strong academic track record. He has taught on arts management courses
and is currently an associate lecturer at the University of the Arts. He has also run
his own courses and seminars on visual culture and American Studies, most recently
in the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.

Dr Richard Ings
+44 (0)20 7502 1930
07976 802108
richardings@blueyonder.co.uk
www.richardings.posterous.com
 The arts and young people
at risk of offending

The
inventive
Arts Council England, 2005
answer
Thoughts on creativity
and young people
Richard Ings

LIFT (London International

Festival of Theatre), 2006 Ignite! (NESTA), 2004 Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, 2009
Protein Dance, 2006 Fundamental Architectural
Inclusion, 2009
From the favela to our manor
Translating AfroReggae:
the impact and implications of an international intervention
create in arts work with young people at risk
A People’s Palace Projects Publication

Taking a journey
From consultation to paticipation through the arts

Isle of Wight Children’s Fund, 2007 Queen Mary,

CapeUK, 2006
Lewisham Education University of London, 2007
Arts Network, 2004–09 Arts Council England, 2001

British Council, 2003

London Arts/Tate Modern, 2000

The Prince’s Trust/

Confererence of National Youth Agency, 1998 Creative Partnerships, 2008 Arts Council England, 2007
Calouste Gulbenkian
Drama Schools, 2008
Foundation, 2004