CCCI@City

Eisner Award Nomination

Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation edited by Sheena C. Howard and Ronald L. Jackson II (Bloomsbury, 2013) has been nominated for a 2014 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Scholarly/Academic Work. The Eisner Awards are the North American comics publishing industry’s most prestigious honour. Results will be announced in July at Comic-Con…

Another prize-winning paper

Congratulations to our very own Rosalind Gill who is co-author of Feminist Theory’s ‘best essay award 2014’. The winning paper, on which Jessica Ringrose is first author, considers the persistence of sexual double standards in the era of sexting. Awarding the prize, the journal’s editors said “your paper makes an important, coherent and confident contribution to…

What lies ahead for the new culture secretary?

Dr Dave O’Brien wrote a short piece for the Guardian’s Culture Pofessionals Network, about the challenges facing Sajid Javid, the UK’s new Secretary of State for Culture. Read it here http://www.theguardian.com/culture-professionals-network/culture-professionals-blog/2014/apr/11/sajid-javid-culture-secretary-maria-miller?CMP=twt_gu

CreativeWorksLondon grant for CCI

Dr Dave O’Brien has recieved a grant from the CreativeWorksLondon project to work with Q-Art, a not for profit organisation based in Farringdon on Networked Value: Understanding the impact of Q-Art. The project will use social network analysis to understand the impact of Q-Arts work with early career artists. Part of the funding will be…

CCI Student contributes to EU conference on regions

On Tuesday 1 April, Kate was a delegate at the Committee of the Regions’ 20th anniversary conference, For a Europe with regions and cities: the view of young people, in Brussels. The event brought together 150 youth from all over Europe to discuss the future of the CoR, the only body in the EU that…

Creative Futures Video

Debbie Dickinson has edited an extract from the very successful Creative Futures event that was held last month. Click on the link below to view the whole video Video

BA CCI field trip

Students in the BA Culture and Creative Industries undertook direct observation to enhance their research skills in East London. First year students taking the module Cultural and Creative Industries, Arts and Popular Culture made a group visit to Hoxton Square and surroundings yesterday with Cecilia. The purpose of the visit was to collect observations about urban…

Cultural Capital: promise and price of the creative economy

Andy Pratt took part in a panel debate on the challenges and opportunity that the creative economy poses for New York. The immediate context are a number of well known artists (such as David Byrne) stating that it was no longer possible for artists to live and develop a career in New York see article here ….

CPM students visit to Saddler’s Wells

Students taking the Dr Jo Littler’s ‘Public Culture: The Politics of Participation’ elective on the MA CPM had a trip out to Sadler’s Wells this week. Director of Creative Learning Fiona Ross (pictured, with students) gave a talk at City about her job, and the work Sadler’s Wells does in trying to reach people with the least opportunity…

Jo Littler nominated for research supervision award

Everybody in CCI is pleased to congratulate Jo Littler on being nominated in the Student Voice Awards in the Category of Research Supervision. The Student Voice Award scheme is run by the Students’ Union in conjunction with the Learning Development Centre, to acknowledge lecturers who have demonstrated great commitment to top-quality teaching, learning, and assessment over the…