Network is a hub for all of Queen Mary University of London’s research in the creative economy and it operates across three interrelated aims:
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’ […]
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 […]
How do cities and urban environments nourish creativity? Network is collaborator to a European research project that aims to study the role of cultural places and creative networks in generating and sustaining the dynamics of local areas. The project will compare three geographical areas: the North of Paris / Seine-Saint-Denis, East London (Hackney Wick / […]
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 […]
Network Centre supported a small knowledge exchange project between QMUL Reader in Management Practice / Deputy Director of Education, Patrick McGurk, and local Hackney based enterprise, Echo (economyofhours.com) to analyse the social value of its project, The Match. Echo is a network which connects community projects, many of them within the creative industries, and businesses […]
Network Centre has brokered a small knowledge exchange project between researcher Jessica Jacobs and 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning in Brixton. Brixton has undergone rapid regeneration, redevelopment and gentrification since the 1981 Brixton riots. Many of the impacts of this for local, long-term residents are controversial. Building on previous work with Brixton Housing Co-op and […]