Measuring the unmeasurable? Data collection, analysis and evaluation in culture

Miriam Šebová is Associate Professor, Department of Regional Science and Management, Faculty of Economics at the Technical University of Košice, Slovakia.

Her research interests and publications are mainly in the field of regional and local development and cultural economics. Since 2011 she has being doing research in the field of cultural economics. Between 2010 and 2014 she was involved in a research project focused on creative and cultural industries in different regions in Slovakia KRENAR (Creative Economy –National and Regional Conditions and Incentives). The main incentive for researching culture was the designation of Košice as the European Capital of Culture (ECOC) in 2013. She was involved in the evaluation of socio-economic impacts of the ECOC on the city. After the evaluation of the ECoC, she becomes more interested in culture-led urban regeneration and in the methods that are useful in valuation the socio-economic impacts of culture at the local level. Her habilitation thesis “The Economic and Social Dimension of Culture in the City” (2016) was focused on a quantitative analysis of cultural participation in Kosice and the whole of Slovakia as well. Since 2018 she is researching the economic efficiency of cultural institutions in Slovakia within a project supported by Slovak Minyistry of Education. She is a member of Steering Committee of Working Group of Evaluation of International Transnational Cultural Projects of ENCATC.