what a lineup in this thread
David Wright@davwright.bsky.social · 4mo agoOut 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...
Come at do a PhD with Sam Hind, Riza Batista-Navarro and me! "Artificial Inequality? AI and its impact on the UK Creative Industries" Deadline 30th March www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Artificial Inequality? AI and its impact on the UK Creative Industries (CreativeAI Studentship) at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Artificial Inequality? AI and its impact on the UK Creative Industries (CreativeAI Studentship) at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
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📈 New research published today by Creative PEC shows that the Creative Industries account for almost a tenth of UK firms classified as having ‘high-growth potential’, higher than both the Life Sciences (5.1%) and Advanced Manufacturing (2.4%). 🔗 shorturl.at/cWxlF
High-Growth Potential Firms in the UK's Creative Industries - Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre
This new report demonstrates that the Creative Industries account for almost a tenth of UK firms classified as having ‘high-growth potential’.
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this closes in two weeks. the offer to email me with any Qs remains open!
Mark Taylor@markrt.co.uk · 6mo agowork with me and @drdaveobrien.bsky.social as part of @creativepec.bsky.social! we're recruiting a postdoc to work on the arts, culture and heritage sectors using quantitative methods. please share, please feel free to email me directly with any Qs! jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Sheffiel...
The deadline to submit papers for the Creative PEC Research Symposium 2026 is fast approaching. Send your extended abstract of ~500 words to research@pec.ac.uk by Monday 2nd February. For more information and to register for the Symposium, email research@pec.ac.uk.
Creative PEC@creativepec.bsky.social · 8mo ago📢 Call for submissions: The Creative PEC Research Symposium 2026 will take place on 28–29 April at Newcastle University Business School and will provide a forum for researchers to present their latest work on the economics of the cultural and creative industries. Find out more: shorturl.at/9xuYX
another quick boost for this - closes 18 Feb. please send to quantitatively-oriented culture people in your life! they can email me!
Mark Taylor@markrt.co.uk · 6mo agowork with me and @drdaveobrien.bsky.social as part of @creativepec.bsky.social! we're recruiting a postdoc to work on the arts, culture and heritage sectors using quantitative methods. please share, please feel free to email me directly with any Qs! jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Sheffiel...
work with me and @drdaveobrien.bsky.social as part of @creativepec.bsky.social! we're recruiting a postdoc to work on the arts, culture and heritage sectors using quantitative methods. please share, please feel free to email me directly with any Qs! jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Sheffiel...
Research Associate in Creative Industries (Quantitative)
Research Associate in Creative Industries (Quantitative)
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culture is bad for you is £6:59! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177810/
Manchester University Press - Culture is bad for you
Culture is bad for you - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Culture is bad for you by Orian Brook
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Manchester University Press@manchesterup.bsky.social · 8mo agoOur 2025 Christmas Gift Guide is now live! Shop selected titles with 40% OFF as part of our Christmas Sale promotion for a limited time only. Whether it's sport, folklore, music or Jane Austen you're after there's a book here for everyone on your list: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/11...
Funded PhD opportunities thread! 1) Creative Bridges: Are you passionate about shaping the future of the screen industries? Applications are now open for Creative Bridges CDT, an AHRC-funded doctoral training programme from the University of Leeds and University of Warwick. creativebridges-cdt.ac.uk
Creative Bridges – Connecting Diversity and Sustainability for UK Screen Industries
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i once sat next to someone on a flight who watched Diary of a CEO for 14 hours
HK@hkesvani.bsky.social · 9mo agoListening to podcasts on a plane’s in flight entertainment system is real sicko behaviour The only person I have seen who listened to a podcast on a plane also owned a Diary of a CEO branded journal
Do a funded PhD with me! We are looking for projects at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary enquiry into AI and inequalities! www.linkedin.com/posts/susan-...
Power and Difference in the time of responsible AI at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com | Susan Oman
Do a funded PhD with me! We are looking for projects at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary enquiry into AI and inequalities! "Your doctoral research project will be designed by you to respond to...
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just to echo Robin: *23*? (i’m on my way home from a performance at an NPO hosted by another NPO, let’s see what i get asked to do)
Robin C-F@robin.cantrill-fenwick.uk · 10mo ago"Step 1 of *23*?"
Nice to see two excellent academic collections on audiences, data and policy [including my only (!) academic article] in new (more affordable) editions: www.routledge.com/A-Reader-on-... www.routledge.com/Audience-Dat... Credit to @sdjhadley.bsky.social for editing/making them happen…
i'm looking through some old teaching materials, and i'd forgotten i'd made this
funded quants x cultural policy x sociology PhDs don’t come up very often. this looks great! please circulate!
Christiaan Monden@cmonden.bsky.social · 10mo agoGreat (paid) PhD opportunity. Excellent environment, conditions, and supervisors. And a topic close to my heart. (Selfish reason for promoting this: I fear there won't be enough concerts for retired me to go to. Geen dag zonder Bach.) vacatures.knaw.nl/job/The-Hagu...
Free registration is still open for A Global Dialogue on Cultural Policy and Sustainable Development. Join the conversation. 🔗 en.dialogo-global2025.pucp.edu.pe #CulturalPolicy #GlobalSouth
International Conference
PUCP and the scientific journal Cultural Trends organize the 2025 edition of the International Conference
en.dialogo-global2025.pucp.edu.pe
(free) registration for @ctjournal.bsky.social's Global Dialogues conference is now open! en.dialogo-global2025.pucp.edu.pe. i realise not many people who follow me on here are in or near Lima; please share if anyone you know is! (keynotes - ~13:00 and 20:00 UK time each day - will be livestreamed)
International Conference
This conference is part of the Global Dialogues series of Cultural Trends magazine. In this 2025 edition, the event will be held at the PUCP, Lima - Peru.
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London comms job! work with me! £31kish. feel free to DM with any Qs
Creative PEC@creativepec.bsky.social · last yr.If you'd like to help us support the UK's creative industries, we're currently hiring a London-based Comms and Events Officer. Please do apply if it matches your interests and experience. Closing date is 7 September. Full details here: pec.ac.uk/job_entries/...
They argue for a data-first culture where ‘bad news’ is not seen as a threat, and for investing in an infrastructure that allows for independent collection and analysis of data. Read the guest blog: pec.ac.uk/blog_entries...
When Data Hurts: What the Arts Can Learn from the BLS Firing - Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre
Read the blog from Douglas Noonan and Joanna Woronkowicz about the dangers of dismissing or discarding data that doesn't fit the narrative.
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The benefits of culture to health, education and community are championed, but can culture ever do wrong? 'Culture is Bad for You' exposes systems of precarity, and the exclusion of women, people of colour, and working-class people: www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival... #EdBookFest #booksky
Orian Brook, Dave O’Brien & Mark Taylor: Is Culture Bad For You?
From Tue 19 Aug - The benefits of culture to health, education and community are championed, but can culture ever do wrong? First published in 2020, academics and creative industry experts Orian…
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Anyone making their way to Edinburgh (or already nearby!), I *think* that there are still tickets available - come here me, @markrt.bsky.social and @drdaveobrien.bsky.social chat about whether Culture is still bad for you www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
Orian Brook, Dave O’Brien & Mark Taylor: Is Culture Bad For You?
From Tue 19 Aug - The benefits of culture to health, education and community are championed, but can culture ever do wrong? First published in 2020, academics and creative industry experts Orian Brook...
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Manchester University Press@manchesterup.bsky.social · last yr.Checked out the @edbookfest.bsky.social? Don't miss Vince Cable (Eclipsing the West), @orianbrook.bsky.social, @markrt.bsky.social & @drdaveobrien.bsky.social (Culture is bad for you) and @aldersonday.bsky.social (Presence). 9-24th August at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social:
British Academy's just announced its new Fellows. 19 Oxbridge, 29 other Russell Group, 9 elsewhere (2xSt Andrews, Aberdeen, Courtauld, Institute for Historical Research, Leicester, Surrey, UEA, Reading), 0 post-92. cool well-functioning higher education section we've got
Edinburgh! 19 August! 15:30! Spiegeltent! Book! www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival... (per the advertising, i promise @orianbrook.bsky.social and I will be slightly higher up than @drdaveobrien.bsky.social throughout)
Orian Brook, Dave O’Brien & Mark Taylor: Is Culture Bad For You?
From Tue 19 Aug - The benefits of culture to health, education and community are championed, but can culture ever do wrong? First published in 2020, academics and creative industry experts Orian Brook...
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Manchester University Press@manchesterup.bsky.social · last yr.Checked out the @edbookfest.bsky.social? Don't miss Vince Cable (Eclipsing the West), @orianbrook.bsky.social, @markrt.bsky.social & @drdaveobrien.bsky.social (Culture is bad for you) and @aldersonday.bsky.social (Presence). 9-24th August at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social:
Being an artists is about "suffering and madness" while "completely covered in paint" 🙄 www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
Ed Sheeran’s Pollock homage has energy but no feeling or truth
Abstract art like this gives all abstract art a bad name, just meaningless concoctions that avoid proper scrutiny
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CfP! We Want More: Music / Sociology! Call for papers | International Popular Music Studies Conference at @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social 8th April 2026, deadline for abstracts 1st Oct 2025 www.eur.nl/en/eshcc/eve...
We Want More: Music / Sociology!
Join us to explore the sociology of (popular) music – from AI to activism, labour to care. Call for papers open until 1 October 2025.
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Peru! enormously excited for this. get those abstracts in!
Cultural Trends Journal@ctjournal.bsky.social · last yr.We’re excited to announce Dr Mark Taylor as keynote at the Cultural Trends Global Dialogue this November in Lima. His research on inequality in culture & creative industries offers vital perspective to our dialogue. Proposals due 14 July! 📄 Full call: www.linkedin.com/pulse/announ...
ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) and Cultural Trends invite you: Cultural Policy and Sustainable Development: A Global Dialogue Lima, Peru | 5–7 November 2025 Full announcement and CFP: www.linkedin.com/posts/cultur...
ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS: Cultural Policy and Sustainable… | Cultural Trends Journal
ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) and Cultural Trends invite you Cultural Policy and Sustainable Development: A Global Dialogue Lima, Peru 5-7 Novembe...
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Just a reminder that if you are in Edinburgh you can hear me, @drdaveobrien.bsky.social, antonio cuyler, Beata Kowalczyk and Ines Ruiz Alvarado chaired by @klloyd.bsky.social talking about all things inequality in creative work on Tuesday evening at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social
Culture is Bad for You - Edinburgh Futures Institute
A panel event on the mechanisms of exclusion in cultural work and how they are mirrored in other national and policy contexts
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