Special issue : audience data and research: perspectives from scholarship, policy, management and practice

'Reflections on audience data and research', by Steven Hadley, Katya Johanson, Ben Walmsley & Anne Torreggiani; 'A prison audience: women prisoners, Shakespeare and spectatorship', by Matthew Reason; 'Challenges of cultural industry knowledge exchange in live performance audience research', by Kirsty Sedgman; 'Using mixed-methods, a data model and a computational ontology in film audience research', by Peter Merrington, Matthew Hanchard, Bridgette Wessels, Michael Pidd, Katherine Rogers, David Forrest, Andrew Higson, Roderik Smits, Nathaniel Townsend & Simeon Yates; 'SROI in the art gallery; valuing social impact', by Andrew Jackson & Richard McManus; 'Arts audience segmentation: data, profiles, segments and biographies', by Daniel Ashton & Ronda Gowland-Pryde; 'The work of the audience: visual matrix methodology in museums', by Lynn Froggett, Lizzie Muller & Jill Bennett; 'A possible teleology of cultural sector data in England', by Sara Selwood; 'The coming crisis of cultural engagement? Measurement, methods, and the nuances of niche activities', by Laurie Hanquinet, Dave O’Brien & Mark Taylor; 'Spontaneity and planning in arts attendance: insights from qualitative interviews and the Audience Finder database', by Sarah Price, Rachel Perry, Oliver Mantell, James Trinder & Stephanie Pitts; 'Measuring the effectiveness of public subsidy by the analysis of disparate data sources: do subsidies increase arts participation by low engagers?', by Jennifer Eigo & John Wilson.