CCCI@City

Towards a just creative city

Andy is organising, along with Dr Marianna D’Ovidio (Bari University), a special panel at this year’s International Sociological Association meeting of the ‘urban’ study group “RC21” in Leeds, September 11-13, 2017. The session is entitled ‘Rethinking Urban Global Justice: An international academic conference for critical urban studies’. Here is a call for papers, please pass on…

Follow up resource on urban creativity event

Many will recall the successful event on alternative visions of the creative city (focusing on equality) that our wonderful Urban Studies Fellow Post Doc Dr Cecelia Dinardi organised as part of her British Academy ‘Rising Star’ award in September. As promised, Cecilia has now developed a website for the event with interviews with participants.http://www.encatc.org/en/resources/interviews/ http://urbancreativityplatform.com/ (click…

Congratulations to Dr Laura Favaro

Congratulations to Dr Laura Favaro who was awarded her PhD on Feb 17th with no corrections. Her examiners, Professor Sarah Banet-Weiser (Director of Communications at the Annenberg School in LA) and Dr Shani Orgad (Associate Professor of Media and Communications at the LSE), both commended Laura’s work as one of the best Doctoral Dissertations they…

Remembering Roona

It was with great sadness that we learned today of the death of Roona Simpson, a research fellow in Sociology at the University of Glasgow. Roona was one of Ros Gill’s close-knit group of PhD students at the LSE in the early 2000s. Roona was passionate about gender studies and her PhD focussed upon women’s…

New Chinese paper for Andy

Andy has a chapter in a new book edited by Klaus Kunzmann on Culture, Creative industries and Urban Regeneration. The collection takes the form of a number of case studies of urban cultural regeneration in China by Chinese academics, and contrasting and comparative studies from around the world. Andy’s chapter is on London “London: policy…

Visibility for Ros in Mexico

Ros has an article about postfeminism published in the latest issue of Mexican magazine Engarce.

Evaluation of creative vouchers: inside and out.

Andy has had two chapters published in a new book Cultural Policy, Innovation and the Creative Economy. Edited by Prof Morag Shiach and Dr Tarek Virani. The book publishes research carried out as part of the AHRC funded Creative Works London project on Creative Vouchers. One of the chapters concerns the voucher that Andy won with…

Vietnam’s creative hubs

Andy Pratt has been asked to help the Vietnamese Ministry of Culture Sport and Tourism to advise on its Creative Hubs policy. This builds upon Andy’s work for the British Council last year producing the ‘Hubs Report’. Andy spent a week in Vietnam visiting cultural practitioners and hub managers, and policy makers in Hanoi, Hue…

Research project on the future of the Olympic Park

Andy Pratt is part of a team that has received research funding from AHRC to study the ‘Impact And Legacies Of Creative Clustering: The New Culture And Education District, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park’. The project is being led by Dr Beatriz Garcia, Institute of Cultural Capital, Liverpool University. The development of a new Culture and…

Andy appointed to AHRC advisory group

Andy Pratt has been appointed to serve on the Arts and Humanities Research Council Creative Economy Advisory Group. The aim of this group is to undertake a major role in informing the future shape, direction and impact of the AHRC’s creative economy strategy.