Institute of Art and Technology impact

The Institute of Art and Technology (IAT) generates impact from research in the following key areas:

Arts policy and institutional change

  • Curatorial and artistic practice shaping institutional directions and arts programming at museums, galleries, libraries and biennials.
  • Enriching understanding and experience.
  • Wider projects advancing policy, ethical co-creation, digital innovation, decolonial, feminist and environmentally engaged arts.

Creative health and wellbeing

  • Arts-based interventions supporting trauma recovery, disability inclusion, and community cohesion.
  • Digital innovation, with evidence of individual benefit and organisational adoption.

Practice-led participatory projects

  • Engagement with marginalised groups (for example neurodiverse, refugees).
  • Fostering cultural access.
  • Inclusion.
  • Narratives of representation.

We have submitted 22 Impact Stories for LJMU Impact and Engagement audit (2025), for example:

  • The Hilbre Centre for Arts Science and Sustainability (CASS) with British Art and Design Association (BADA) and the local authority establishing a Community Land Trust (CLT) to enhance historical and ecological preservation of Hilbre island (led by Dominic Wilkinson)
  • Being Human Festival funding to develop a public engagement event on Hilbre and developing a Case Study (Mark Roughley)
  • New model of social and environmental sustainability for world biennials: developed from Prof Krysa research as Chief Curator of Helsinki Biennial 2023 titled New Direction May Emerge to address global climate and social justice urgency.
  • Decolonial Research Culture: Connecting our local environment and the Global South through culturally diverse knowledge and creative practices (2025-26): LJMU funded Enhancing Research Culture grant to develop a distinctive arts program at our public facing ERL gallery tackling issues of diversity within the institution and society at large, and to champion forms of inclusion that are beneficial to knowledge co-creation and innovation (led by Dr Eyene, project team Dr Schofield, Dr Leaper, Andrew Ibi, PGRs Saenger Silva, Lanvern-Blackford), in partnership with Tate Liverpool.