Eleonora Belfiore

Leicester, United Kingdom United Kingdom

Professor in Communication and Media Studies at Loughborough University

Education

The investigation of the social impact of the arts, its place in cultural policy rhetoric and the notion of the transformative power of the arts that underline the impact discourse have been a long standing research interest for me since my MA dissertation was reworked into a journal article and published in 2002 with the title "Art as a means of alleviating social exclusion: Does it really work? A critique of instrumental cultural policies and social impact studies in the UK". Since then, I have researched and published widely on the question of impact, its definition and measurement, and the role of the Humanities in impact research. I am presently developing further her research in th...