Publications

Creativeworks London (CWL): Enhancing the Sustainability and Innovation Capacity of Creative-Economy Businesses

The origins of QMUL Network Centre were referrenced in a case study report submitted by Professor Morag Shiach for the School of English and Drama in the recent Research Excellence Framework assessment 2021 (REF21). Prof. Shiach explains that Network was built from Creativeworks London (CWL), an AHRC-funded Knowledge Exchange Hub for the Creative Economy that […]

Creative hubs and cultural policies: a comparison between Brazil and the United Kingdom

Karina Poli, visiting researcher at Network, and Prof. Morag Shiach have collaborated to produce this comparative analysis of ten creative hubs located in London, Birmingham, and São Paulo. It explores how cultural policies in the UKand Brazil constitute the boundaries between ‘culture’ and ‘innovation’ in distinct ways. Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of ‘field’, ‘habitus’, and ‘capital’ […]

Mapping the Creative Economy around Durga Puja, West Bengal.

Durga Puja is a major festival that takes place every year in West Bengal. Network was commissioned to undertake research into the creative economy and ecology in 2019 in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, on behalf of the British Council, India, and in partnership with the Department of Tourism of the Government […]

Digital Platforms for Craft

Digital platforms for craft was an 20-month project that aimed to map out the use, features and potential of digital platforms in craft sectors in the UK and China. It was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK and supported by the Crafts Council, and was a partnership between researchers at […]

A “Sector Deal” and a creative precariat : shaping creative economy policy in the UK since 2010

In January 2020, Professor Morag Shiach, Director of Network, gave a lecture in Paris that analysed the development of policies for the creative economy in the UK over the past ten years. The lecture has been published here. The diversity of creative economy policies across different parts of the UK is foregrounded, as well as […]

Local creative and cultural economy intermediaries: Examining place-based workers in the creative and cultural economy

This paper is about local Creative and Cultural Economy Intermediaries (CCEIs). There is a body of work that looks at other larger organisational constructs as intermediaries, however this is not the focus of this paper. For the sake of conceptual clarity and keeping in line with examining work in the spaces and places of the […]

Publications Highlights

Creativeworks London (CWL): Enhancing the Sustainability and Innovation Capacity of Creative-Economy Businesses

Creative hubs and cultural policies: a comparison between Brazil and the United Kingdom

Mapping the Creative Economy around Durga Puja, West Bengal.

Digital Platforms for Craft

A “Sector Deal” and a creative precariat : shaping creative economy policy in the UK since 2010

Local creative and cultural economy intermediaries: Examining place-based workers in the creative and cultural economy

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