CCCI@City

Casey to co-convene preconference in Chicago

For the third year in a row, Dr Casey Brienza is co-convening a Media Sociology Preconference ahead of the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. This year it will be held at the downtown Chicago campus of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management on 21 August 2015, with Tressie McMillan Cottom (Virginia Commonwealth University,…

More work for Andy in Creative Works London

Both Professors Andy Pratt and Ros Gill play a significant role on the £4m AHRC funded “Creative Works London” project; a 4 year long project exploring, and practicing knowledge exchange in the creative sector. The project is just over half way through, Andy and Ros’s efforts are focused on the Place, Work Knowledge strand of…

Andy shows resilience in a new article

Andy Pratt had a new article published in the journal City, Culture and Society today entitled ‘Resilience, locality and the cultural economy’. The article is a critical engagement with the buzz-word that many love to hate: ‘resilience’. Andy reviews some of the blander and conservative usages of the term, and the overlap with sustainability (another…

Welcome Janet and Jenny: CCI’s new lecturers

CCI is very happy to welcome two new members of staff: Dr Jenny M’Baye and Dr Janet Merkel. Both were selected in a very competitive international appointments process; it is great that CCI attracted such interest, and that in particular Jenny and Janet could join us. They bring expertise in the field of cultural policy…

Interview with Jo on meritocracy in Il Manifesto

Jo Littler was recently interviewed for an article about her work on meritocracy for the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto. The interview is published here and you can read it you speak Italian: http://ilmanifesto.info/la-chance-avvelenata/

A Typology of Academic Journals

Dr Casey Brienza’s latest article, titled ‘Activism, Legitimation, or Record: Towards a New Tripartite Typology of Academic Journals’, has just been published in the January 2015 issue of Journal of Scholarly Publishing. The article aims to develop a systematic typology of academic journals based on their intended social purpose, both within and beyond the academy and…

Congratulations Dr Feldman!

Christmas came early for Zeena Feldman on Dec 16th when she passed her PhD viva with no corrections! Zeena’s PhD was entitled ‘Articulating belonging online: couchsurfing.org, social media and passion based social networking technology’. It was supervised by Dr Jo Littler, and the thesis was examined by Prof Ros Gill, and Prof Tim Jordan (Sussex)….

Creativity, Music and Institutions

Andy gave a paper at the workshop ‘Creativity and Institutions’ on 9 December held in the Faculty of Music, and the Centre for Intellectual Property and Law at the University of Cambridge, which was organised by Dr Ananay Aguilar who is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow. Andy gave a paper entitled ‘Creativity and Institutions not Individual Genius’ which develops work…

A publishing event with Andy Pratt and Chris Rojek

SASS Research Students’ Community (RSC) organized a colloquial panel with Prof. Chris Rojek from Sociology and Prof. Andy C. Pratt from Culture, and Creative Industries last week to mark the end of the term and the upcoming festive season. With the REF results of 2014 shortly coming in as well, the event proved to be…

Academic Career Advice at Inside Higher Ed

Dr Casey Brienza has penned a contribution to the online higher education periodical Inside Higher Ed on ‘Why You (Yes, You!) Should Write Book Reviews.’ She writes: Book reviews should not, in my view, be understood as a matter of individual profit and/or loss. They are, rather, for the collective good; they are important voluntary inputs…