Publications

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 […]

Dementia Connect-A report for the Dementia Connect project

This report is an evaluation of the creative voucher scheme used in the Dementia Connect (DC) project. DC was an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Follow-on Funding project which drew on core learning and collective expertise from the AHRC’s ‘Knowledge Exchange Hubs’ for the Creative Economy (2012 – 2016). The project was designed to […]

Creative Clusters, Social Inclusion and Sustainability in the Creative Economy – Report

This report emerges from a research project jointly commissioned by Hackney Council, Tower Hamlets Council and the London Legacy Development Corporation. It was created to inform the local authorities’ bid to the Mayor of London’s Creative Enterprise Zones Scheme (2018). Using quantitative and qualitative methods, this investigation seeks to uncover evidence about the characteristics of […]

Research Report: Creative Hubs and Urban Development Goals (UK/Brazil)

Creative Hubs and Urban Development Goals (UK/Brazil) was developed by researchers from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and Universidade de São Paulo (USP), building upon the methods used by QMUL researchers on the four-year project Creativeworks London, funded by the AHRC. It was aimed at two goals: (a) to map the activities of two […]

Publications Highlights

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

Dementia Connect-A report for the Dementia Connect project

Creative Clusters, Social Inclusion and Sustainability in the Creative Economy – Report

Research Report: Creative Hubs and Urban Development Goals (UK/Brazil)

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