Effecting Change: mapping the value of creative and cultural industries
Effecting Change: mapping the value of the creative and cultural industries is a half-day symposium hosted by Solent University in association with Creative Network South on Friday 20th January 2023.
The symposium features presentations by scholars working in the field of creative and cultural industries who have insights to share with peers, industry stakeholders, and with those who share a passion for the growth and development of the creative and cultural sector. Our aim is to foster collaboration and partnership between scholars, industry, and policymakers, in order to provide evidence in support of the ongoing strategic development of the creative and cultural sector at a regional, national, and/or international level.
Time: 12-4 pm
Date: Friday 20th January 2023
Location: TS315A/B, The Spark, Solent University, East Park Terrace, Southampton SO14 0YN
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Programme
12:00-13:00 registration, light lunch, and networking
13:00-14:15 Panel 1
14:15-14:30 Coffee
14:30-16:00 Panel 2
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Panel 1
Cultural partnerships and collaboration in the Creative Industries – Reflections on CIRIN at Oxford Brookes
Hanna Klien-Thomas, Maya Nedyalkova
Research Fellows for CIRIN at Oxford Brookes University
Giving Our Creative Sector a Voice
Dr. Simon Eden
Director of the Southern Policy Centre, the think-tank for the central South.
Unlocking the potential of creative clusters: Addressing challenges and opportunities
Dr. Josh Siepel
Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex Business School and work strand lead for Creative Clusters at the AHRC Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC).
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Panel 2
Supporting local creative ecologies? what modes and frameworks
Professor Roberta Comunian
Professor of Creative Economies at the Department for Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College London.
Third-tier music cities: fragile ecosystems and threats to the talent pipeline
Professor Martin James, Professor Chris Anderton
Faculty Business Law and Digital Technologies, Solent University, Southampton, UK.
Creative industries, business innovation and regional dimensions
Dr Tasos Kitsos
Aston Business School and Centre for Business Prosperity, Aston University, Birmingham, UK.
Fostering Sustainable Prosperity in the fashion sector and beyond: a fourfold approach to value and wellbeing
Professor Dilys Williams, Dr. Mila Burcikova, Professor Sandy Black
Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London College of Fashion University of the Arts London.
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Biographies
Dr Chris Anderton: focuses on the music industries, music culture and music history. He is author/editor of Understanding the Music Industries (2013), Music Festivals in the UK. Beyond the Carnivalesque (2019), Researching Live Music: Gigs, Tours, Concerts and Festivals (2022), Media Narratives in Popular Music (2022) and Music Management, Marketing and PR (2022). He has published numerous book chapters and articles in academic journals, and has guest edited special issues of Rock Music Studies, and Arts and the Market.
Dr. Hanna Klien-Thomas: is a research fellow in Creative Industries and her research is situated in transnational screen studies, visual and popular cultures. Based on a digital ethnographic approach, her current research project explores media practices and notions of public culture in the context of Caribbean Carnival in the UK. Her PhD project focused on Bollywood audiences in the Anglophone Caribbean and was funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Josh Siepel: focuses on the intersection between entrepreneurship, skills and innovation, with particular reference to the role of creative industries and creative skills in the economy. He currently works with the AHRC Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC), where he is workstrand lead for Creative Clusters, R&D and Innovation and Access to Finance.
Dr. Maya Nedyalkova: Maya Nedyalkova is a Research Fellow for the Creative Industries Research and Innovation Network. Her research interests include Bulgarian cinema, transnational film industries and audience and reception studies. She has experience obtaining research funding from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the British Academy and the Research Excellence Awards scheme at Oxford Brookes University.
Dr. Mila Burcikova: works across a range of research and knowledge exchange projects, with an emphasis on alternatives to the current fashion system. Her PhD Mundane Fashion: Women, Clothes and Emotional Durability investigated emotional durability of clothing through the lens of a designer-maker practice. Mila currently holds the prestigious Sheepdrove Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2021-2024). Her project ‘Life in Clothes: Place-based organic fashion systems for human and environmental healing’ examines the interconnections and parallels between fashion making and farming practices.
Dr. Simon Eden: is a public policy consultant and a Director of the Southern Policy Centre, the think-tank for the central South. Originally from London, Simon began his career as a research biologist before joining the Civil Service, where he worked on local government funding and policy. In 1999 he was appointed Assistant Chief Executive of Southampton City Council and became Director of Sustainability & Development in 2001. In 2003 Simon was appointed Chief Executive of Winchester City Council. He led the Council for 13 years before leaving to become a policy wonk all over again.
Dr. Tasos Kitsos: is an economist specialising on local economic resilience, regional modelling and growth; university impacts on regional economies; politics and local development; the digital and creative economy; entrepreneurship; innovation; and productivity. He holds a PhD in Economics from Plymouth University and currently is a Lecturer at the Department of Economics, Finance and Entrepreneurship, Aston University. He has previously held positions in the private and public sector as well as research positions at the University of Macedonia, LSE, Plymouth University and University of Birmingham where I have worked on several research and consultancy projects.
Professor Dilys Williams: is founder and Director of Centre for Sustainable Fashion, a University of the Arts London Research Centre, based at London College of Fashion. Dilys’ practice explores fashion as a conduit for living well together as humans in a more than human world. This is applied into education, business, public and political spheres. As Special Advisor to a UK House of Lords All Party Parliamentary Group, and via the UNFCCC Fashion Charter Advisory Panel, she brings climate and social justice considerations into key discourses. Trained at Manchester Metropolitan University and drawing on extensive experience as a practicing designer, she publishes in international academic journals, books and media outlets. Dilys is a keen contributor to explorations that sit at the tension between where we are and where we might be.
Professor Martin James: explores ‘third-tier’ creative cities, the role of music in the cultural city identity and mediated histories of popular music. He is the author of several books on cultural histories of music, including State of Bass: The origins of jungle/ drum & bass (2020, 1997) and French Connections: from discotheque to discovery (2021, 2004). He is also co-author of Understanding the Music Industries (2013) and co-edited Media Narratives in Popular Music (2021). Martin has published various book chapters and articles in academic journals.
Professor Roberta Comunian: is interested in the relationship between public and private investments in the arts, art and cultural regeneration projects, cultural and creative work, careers, and creative social economies. She was a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Newcastle (Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies) investigating the relationship between creative industries, cultural policy and public-supported art institutions. She has previously researched the role of higher education in the creative economy and has recently explored in various papers the career opportunities and patterns of creative graduates in the UK. She has recently completed an H2020-funded research project DISCE: Developing inclusive and sustainable creative economies (www.disce.eu).
Professor Sandy Black: is working at the intersections of fashion and textile practice, design for sustainability, technology, business and culture. Sandy has published pioneering texts on sustainable fashion and design and on knitwear design, history and technology. Recent work brings academic research and the designer fashion sector together through dialogue and collaborative projects, focusing on the role of creative entrepreneurship, design, new business models and innovative technology application in addressing issues of sustainability in fashion. Sandy founded and co-edits the journal Fashion Practice: Design, Creative Process and the Fashion Industry, published since 2009.
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