CCI’s Laura Garcia-Favaro, Rosalind Gill and Marisol Sandoval were in Pavia, Italy, at the end of March, presenting their work at the E-COST network ‘Passions of Capitalism’ conference (See picture).
CCI staff presented papers at the AAG in San Francisco this March: Dr Janet Merkel organised, together with Friederike Landau (Technischen Universität Berlin), two sessions on ‘Negotiating the ‘Creative City’: A new cultural governance for the ‘the creative city’?, in which Prof Andy Pratt, Dr Jenny Mbaye, Dr Cecilia Dinardi, among others, delivered presentations. Janet and Friederike…
This week Marisol Sandoval in collaboration with the co-operatives Altgen and Blake House launched http://cultural.coop/ A website dedicated to exploring worker co-operatives as an alternative to precarious, individualised and exploitative work in the cultural sector. The website for example includes a directory of cultural co-operatives in the UK and short video case studies that look…
Download This report measures employment in the creative economies of the US, Canada and the UK. Key Findings The US has the largest creative economy employment of the US, UK and Canada employing 14.2 million people. Canada had the largest creative economy employment as a percentage of the workforce at 12.9 per cent. Employment in…
Earlier this week PhD researcher Kate Mattocks presented two papers at the 66th annual Political Studies Association conference in Brighton. The first paper was based on her PhD findings and talked about the outcomes of EU cultural policy coordination. The second paper emerged from her work with the PSA’s Equality and Diversity working group and…
Diana Yeh has been awarded a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant as the Principal Investigator of the project ‘Becoming East Asian: Race, Ethnicity and Youth Politics of Belonging in Superdiverse Britain’ with Dr Tamsin Barber, Oxford Brookes University. The project examines emerging East Asian youth identities and social spaces in urban Britain to investigate the changing significance of…
In March, drawing on her research on constructions of ‘British Chinese’ culture, Diana Yeh ran a half-day workshop on Researching British Chinese Heritage for volunteers working for the charity Ming Ai at Regents University. This followed her public talk earlier in the year on her book, The Happy Hsiungs: Performing China and the…
Cecilia Dinardi has been awarded a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award (BARSEA) to organise, together with other staff members, a series of engagement events under the title Urban Cultural Policy and Creativity: A Platform for Creative City Exchanges between Policy and Academic Communities. The proposed international seminar seeks to bring the academic debate on…
‘90% of products sold today are waste within 6 months’. This was just one of the facts that 1st year students on the BA CCI ‘Interrogating Consumer Culture’ learnt today during Lucy Chamberlain’s talk. Lucy discussed the sheer volume of waste produced – and how and why — before talking about how the work The…
MA students on the ‘Public culture: the politics of participation’ module were treated to a talk by Fiona Ross this week. Fiona talked about changing institutional models of cultural participation, as well as her extensive experience in the arts and cultural sector: from her current role as Senior Policy at the GLA, through her previous…
