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Laura in the Huff Post

Laura Thompson (Phd candidate , Sociology, supervised by Prof Ros Gill) has been interviewed for a series of articles by the Huffington Post on ‘cyberflashing’. In the first, she commented on the results of a YouGov poll which found 4 in 10 millennial women have received unwanted ‘dick pics’. She also criticised the notion that it is up to women to…

Council of Europe uses Andy Pratt’s report to develop its policy

The report that Andy Pratt has drafted on ‘The value of cultural heritage in a democratic society’ for the Council of Europe will be published later this year; in the meantime the report will be used to support and develop initiatives that the Council is developing on a New Agenda for Culture at the next…

Third space of innovation

Andy Pratt gave a seminar at the Urban Lab, at UCL this week (13 Nov). Andy discussed how we understand innovation, and why a relational and embedded approach is needed to capture the process of knowledge transfer and exchange. Andy called this the third space of innovation and creativity. Andy illustrated his paper with three…

Creative Central Asia

Prof Andy Pratt has been helping Central Asian countries understand the creative industries, and to develop the first economic analysis of the sector. The British Council organised a first Central Asia forum in Astana, Kazakhstan last year that launched the initiative. At that event Andy was asked to lead on the ‘mapping’ document. Andy has…

Launch of Diana Yeh’s new co-edited book Contesting British Chinese Culture

Image: Contesting British Chinese Culture publication, Erika Tan, 2018 Come and join us in celebrating the launch of “Contesting British Chinese Culture”. The event will include screenings of works, readings, presentations and a panel discussion with one of the editors Diana Yeh and contributors, Felicia Chan, Rosa Fong, Katie Hill, susan pui san lok, Veronica…

Congratulations Dr Chouguley!

Ulrike Chouguley defended her PhD thesis last week. The examiners were Dr Andrew Harris, (UCL), and Dr Cecilia Dinardi (Goldsmiths). Ulrike passed with minor corrections; Ulrike’s supervisors Andy Pratt and Jenny M’Baye congratulate her! Ulrike has also managed to produce 2 children as well as a thesis in her period of registration!! The thesis was…

Andy gives keynote in Berlin

Andy gave a lecture at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy in Berlin at a symposium on policy development in the fields of culture and the media (October 30). The event was launched by Christian Hirte, the Secretary of State for that department. Andy spoke about the need for new initiatives and approaches…

Jenny gives a keynote in Bern

On October, 18th, in Bern (Switzerland), Jenny gave the keynote introducing the 3rd Biennale Conference of the German-Speaking Branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM D- A -CH). In her intervention for this two-days conference entitled ‘Pop, Power, Positions: Global Relations and Popular Music’, Dr Jenny Mbaye spoke about the…

New @DiscoverSoc Issue on Merit and Meritocracy

Edited by Anselma Gallinat, Lisa Garforth and Geoff Payne from Newcastle University, the new special issue of the open access publication Discover Society is about Merit and Meritocracy, and features articles about academies and the politics of schooling, the history of meritocracy and universities and class. Dr Jo Littler from CCCI has a piece in…

Jo speaks with ‘The Care Collective’ at CAMEO

Dr Jo Littler from CCCI is part of the multidisciplinary ‘Care Collective’ group, together with Prof Andreas Chatzidakis (Royal Holloway), Dr Jamie Hakim (UEA), Dr Catherine Rottenberg (Nottingham) and Prof Lynne Segal (Birkbeck). The Care Collective had their first public outing recently at the CAMEO conference in Leicester on ‘Care in the Media and Cultural…