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Digital Culture Podcast Episode #14 – Data-driven impact for young people with Simon Glenister from Noise Solution
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The Digital Culture Podcast is for creative and cultural professionals to get to know the Digital Culture Network team, learn how we can help your digital skills development, and find out what’s happening across the sector.
In this episode of the Digital Culture Podcast, James talks to Simon Glenister, CEO and founder of Noise Solution, winners of the Using Data category in the 2025 Digital Culture Awards.
Simon explains how their music education mentoring programme supports young people facing exclusion, mental health challenges, and other complex needs. The sessions combine music with technology and are supported by a secure online platform where participants can share their progress with trusted adults.
Data is built into every part of the programme. From tracking wellbeing to analysing feedback with AI, their approach helps show impact, improve delivery, and support funding.
In this episode, they discuss:
How embedding data collection into the core of a programme can improve both outcomes and reporting.
Why building a culture of trust and collaboration around data encourages meaningful engagement from staff and participants.
What AI can reveal from conversational feedback and how it can be used to surface insights around wellbeing.
Noise Solution were the Using Data category winners in the 2025 Digital Culture Awards. The winner of this category was decided by a panel of experts, led by Katy Raines – Founder and CEO, Indigo Ltd.
The Digital Culture Network is here to support you and your organisation. Our Tech Champions can provide free one-to-one support to all creative and cultural organisations who are in receipt of, or eligible for, Arts Council England funding. If you need help or would like to chat with us about any of the advice we have covered above, please get in touch.
For this episode of our Digital Culture Awards series, James catches up with Katy Clinch from Digital Culture Network Award winners, the Migration Museum. They explore how Meta ads, video content, and print-on-demand helped grow their online shop and align digital strategy with the museum’s mission.
In this episode of the Digital Culture Podcast, we welcome our first guests from outside the team. James Akers interviews Owen Hopkin from Arts Council England and Oonagh Murphy from Goldsmiths about Arts Council's approach to creating an AI Policy, and what arts and culture organisations can learn from that process.
