Communications Survey

Access Folk collected your feedback on the types of information that are useful to you as a folk singer, audience member, organiser, or someone who identifies with the folk scene in England.

The survey took about 15 minutes. The questions were about your role in the folk scene, topics that you’re interested in learning about, the ways you prefer to communicate, and diversity monitoring (these questions help us make sure we’re reaching a good cross-section of the scene).

Why we asked for your input?

There’s an important principle in participatory research: no research about us without us.

Participation is at the heart of everything that Access Folk does. The research we lead, partner on, and support is built on consultation with a range of people from across the folk scene – from individual singers and audience members, to promoters and venues, to folk club and festival organisers, to charities and folk arts organisations. To date our activities include:

• Consulting Groups

• Participatory Research in Music

• Ask a Friend

• Folk Singing Survey

• Singposium

• Knowledge Exchange

• Small Projects

• Artistic Research

We’re also guided by an advisory board of 12 dedicated people representing a variety of interests from across the scene.

As we move into the final stages of our project, we want to make sure the knowledge you’re helping create is assembled in formats that are useful – not just another dusty tome in a library or a broken link on your computer…

What have we done with the knowledge you’ve shared?

So far, we’ve created a series of reports, podcasts, presentations, blogs and postcards. You can learn more and download copies from our resources page.