Access Folk: IPR, GDPR & Our Partners

Presentation slides prepared for the Intellectual Property Rights and Participatory Research Training Workshop hosted by the Participatory Research Network in collaboration with Access Folk on 25 June 2024. This was a hybrid training workshop for participatory researchers on Intellectual Property Rights and Participatory Research with Naomi Korn Associates, a UK-based company, specialising in intellectual property, copyright, licensing and data protection. The workshop included a roundtable session, interactive discussions through example case studies and small group discussions to facilitate conversations and learn more about IPR and participatory research.

The slides summarise a case study of strategies followed by Access Folk in their research, highlighting gaps in knowledge and policy.

The underpinning data collection was approved by the University of Sheffield ethical review process: 056800

Access Folk is a research project exploring ways to increase and diversify participation in folk singing in England. Like many in the arts, the folk scene is facing hardship because the impacts of covid-19 and the current economic climate are affecting venues, organisers, amateur and professional singers and audience members alike. These issues, combined with the ageing of many of the scene’s key activists, raises questions about how the folk singing scene in England might develop over the coming decades. At University of Sheffield, a team of academic and community partners are looking into the current problems and testing potential solutions. The five-year project (2022-2027) hopes to prompt action to help increase accessibility to folk singing for more diverse populations in England.

All the available items arising from the project are available in the Access Folk Collection.