Cultural and Media Policy Studies News and Events

The ESRC funded project Sustainable Flood Memory and follow on Environment Agency project on using digital storytelling for flood resilience have both featured as impact case studies this week on the ESRC's website. Both projects involve the Centre for Cultural Policy Study's Dr Joanne Garde-Hansen, who has worked with Prof Lindsey McEwen (UWE) and Dr Owain Jones (CCRI) for the last three years on exploring local flood knowledge as a form of cultural and collection memory that can be shared socially and through media. To read the ESRC's article 'Sharing Flood Knowledge' click Flood.

Yesterday, 23^rd January saw the Warwick Commission on the Future of Cultural Value meet for its first working day exploring how we invest in our cultural life. High profile Commissioners drawn from the arts, business and academia are working together with their Chair, Vicky Heywood (Chair of the RSA) and Warwick academics to develop new thinking around cultural value, and to start a national conversation of the role of the arts and culture in contemporary society, and the ways in which the richness and diversity of the cultural ecosystem can be preserved and nurtured in difficult economic times.

The Centre is proud to be heavily involved in this exciting and bold new project, which is led by Dr Eleonora Belfiore, together with Prof. Jonothan Neelands of Warwick Business School. Dr Chris Bilton, Centre Director and Prof. Oliver Bennett, founder of the Centre are members of the Commission’s internal academic reference group, which supports the Commission with specialist expertise.

Warwick Creative Exchange is a network of Warwick University researchers, cultural practitioners and producers looking for new ways to collaborate. The Warwick Creative Exchange website went live on 6^th December. And on 5^th February the Exchange will be running a Building Partnerships Workshop in which participants will identify and work with partners from academia and the arts to create viable collaborative projects (development funding will be offered to the most promising projects). See more...