After a near two decade career teaching and researching a range of topics at a top ranked global university, the question I'm asked most - and which I still struggle to answer - is 'Does the word count include the bibliography?'
David Wright
@davwright.bsky.social
Researching and teaching about creative industries and cultural policy at the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies, SCAPVC, University of Warwick. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/ccmps/staff/david/ If you want me, I'll be at the cricket.
'A Russell Group university will no longer use ubiquitous anti-cheating tools provided by Turnitin because of concerns that the company might use students’ work to train artificial intelligence.' Maybe time for UK universities to develop and commercialise their own tools?
Southampton dumps Turnitin over use of students’ work to train AI
Academic integrity giant denies accusations as university declines to renew contract in favour of ‘other options’
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Nottingham Puppet Festival today Only saw a few acts because of work but it was still fun, the heat showed a little mercy and everything seemed a big hit with kids
This is what I want to hear when Burnham gets off that train youtu.be/vgI9hjRzmq0?...
Do you intend to abolish first class rail travel?
YouTube video by Tom Cleaver
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Given the Guardian best books brouhaha, here's a thing I wrote (in 2012!) about lists and literary taste. Still kind of stands up. The history bit is interesting if I say so myself 🤔 wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/51...
Literary taste and list culture in a time of "endless choice" - WRAP: Warwick Research Archive Portal
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No shade on the research itself which no doubt is careful and rigorous on its terms but I always find coverage of studies like this a bit depressing. As if we're only allowed beautiful things when there is a grimly utilitarian reason. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Arts and cultural engagement ‘linked to slower pace of biological ageing’
Research from UCL suggests visiting art galleries or museums, singing and painting can help improve health outcomes
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And people say this platform is in decline.
Christopher Bird@mightygodking.com · 4mo agowe all know I have no life, so:
We conclude with reflections on what the evidence tells us. Notably, it indicates that challenging conditions of creative work are not inevitable. If states consider the creative economy important, then there are routes to supporting this work and these workers. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
Conclusion | 22 | Supporting Creative and Cultural Work in Europe | Da
This concluding chapter summarizes the arguments, evidence, and analysis presented in the previous chapters. It focusses on how questions of definition and
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This makes me happy and incredibly sad for what we let go … for how impossible it would be to set up anything with the intellectual, pedagogic, democratic vision of the OU now www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Milton Keynes statue honours Open University founder
The statue celebrates the life of an MP who was behind the creation of the university.
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Out today, from editors Bård Kleppe, Jaka Primorac, Mikka Pyykkönen and me. The book combines cross-national writing teams and focussed case studies across Europe to examine the rhetoric and reality of creative work. A contents thread 👇 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
Creative and Cultural Work in Europe | Bård Kleppe, Jaka Primorac, Mii
This book gathers evidence and case studies from various parts of Europe and across the different sectors that comprise the creative industries, including the
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I think we need to do an edgy, single-take Netflix drama, set in a school in the north of England, about the online radicalisation of Nick Robinson
Thanks to our contributors, reviewers and to @bookseditorial.bsky.social and team at @routledgebooks.bsky.social for their help. If you work at a university, why not order a copy for your library? And if you don't, and you want to read anything, drop me a line. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
Creative and Cultural Work in Europe | Bård Kleppe, Jaka Primorac, Mii
This book gathers evidence and case studies from various parts of Europe and across the different sectors that comprise the creative industries, including the
taylorfrancis.com
Out today, from editors Bård Kleppe, Jaka Primorac, Mikka Pyykkönen and me. The book combines cross-national writing teams and focussed case studies across Europe to examine the rhetoric and reality of creative work. A contents thread 👇 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
Creative and Cultural Work in Europe | Bård Kleppe, Jaka Primorac, Mii
This book gathers evidence and case studies from various parts of Europe and across the different sectors that comprise the creative industries, including the
taylorfrancis.com
Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral PhD Studentship at UCL and the V&A: 'Invisible Hands: Migrant Labour and British Craft in the 18th Century' Ignore the 'top ten' hype; focus on the ace resources, environment and support. Deadline 15 April. #Skystorians
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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This is a really important point. No-one has been able to explain to me how we can fairly and consistently distinguish between an AI generated essay (formulaic and generic in its structure, phrasing and contents) and...
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 5mo ago'It inverts a common anxiety about AI and assessment integrity. The students using AI most heavily are not cutting corners – they are the most ethically engaged, the most attentive to institutional guidance, and the most conscious of whether they could defend their work.' 4/4
If you’re wondering what the big deal is about Jürgen Habermas (who died yesterday), or if you’ve never heard of him until now, you’re not going to learn much from the short newspaper obituaries, which are focusing on more on what he said about current events than his philosophy. 1/
Andrew Parkin@parkinac.bsky.social · 5mo ago
Burnden Park, Bolton, 1946: the deal that cost father and son's lives in 'forgotten disaster'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The deal that cost father and son's lives in Burnden Park disaster
A family remembers how their loved ones never returned from the fatal 1946 stadium crush in Bolton.
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"Why are creative graduates willing to do this? It’s because – and this is a critical point for all graduates and, indeed, any human being – money isn’t necessarily the only reward from work." wonkhe.com/blogs/creati...
Creative arts graduates aren't the problem – they're the subsidy
Johnny Rich argues that low graduate salaries in the arts aren't a sign of poor courses – they're a sign of an industry that profits from exploiting its workforce
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'Let’s return to that question about the supposed poor returns for creative arts graduates. The answer lies in the fact that they are effectively subsidising the creative industries that they’re working in – they are...selling their labour for less than they might earn in other sectors'. 2/3
This forgets there were serious attempts to replace Churchill with an otter after Dunkirk
Alexander Fox@alexanderfox1.bsky.social · 5mo agoI simply refuse to believe this isn’t a Chris Morris sketch:
This is cruel to the young people concerned, self-destructive for the UK and will not win over a single Reform voter.
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 5mo ago39 Sudanese Chevening Scholarship finalists ejected this week from consideration for the scheme, for being Sudanese.
Pleased to hear Drs. Melanie Stavrou, Hao Xie and Younggeon Byun talk about their work on Decolonisation as Cultural Justice.
Great to see this article from our PhD student Pengyun Lu now out, open access, in @ejcs-journal.bsky.social "Between ‘audience lords’ and ‘rich fathers’: Triadic relational labour and contingent moral improvisation among Chinese tech creators on UGC platforms" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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These were great. And in the end, weirdly hopeful. I learned a lot. And I bet the Christmas parties at the Centre for Existential Risk are pretty fun.
Past Present Future Podcast@ppfideas.bsky.social · 6mo agoNEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today is the 3rd & final of David’s conversations with S. M. Amadae about nuclear weapons and nuclear war, this time looking to the future. What are the prospects for nuclear disarmament in the 21st century? Might we still get out of this alive? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
"no longer be accepting AI art, including on bottles and pump clips, in order to try to protect local artists from losing out on work." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Newcastle pubs ban AI art from breweries to protect local creatives
As two pubs in Newcastle ban AI art, artists discuss the impact it can have on creatives.
bbc.co.uk