Cultural and Media Policy Studies News and Events

A team of researchers in the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies is working on one of eight digital innovation projects funded by NESTA and Arts Council England. The aim is to develop new approaches to 'digital R&D' in the arts, and eight research teams including the Centre's researchers have been invited to study the process and outcomes. The research is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The Happenstance project will take six creative technologists (designers, developers, user experience specialists, etc.) and place them for a series of short residencies or 'sprints' in three arts organisations: Site Gallery in Sheffield, Lighhouse in Brighton and Spike Island in Bristol. The Warwick team will be tracking the process and considering how one off, open ended digital projects can spark longer term organisational change.

The Centre for Cultural Policy Studies is pleased to be able to offer a limited number part-fees bursaries for its taught postgraduate programmes; MA in International Cultural Policy and Management, MA in Creative and Media Enterprises and MA in Global Media and Communication.

Regional Scholarships

We are particularly keen to encourage MA applicants from the following regions: North America and the Caribbean, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Russia and Eastern Europe and there is one award available on each MA programme for an exceptional applicant who meets the specified criteria.

Home Scholarship

In addition we are pleased to offer one award of £5,000 for a Home applicant (i.e. a British citizen and resident in the UK) for study on one of our three MA programmes

More Details

You'll find further information about all of these bursary awards by following the links to Fees and Funding for your chosen MA programme:

MA in International Cultural Policy and Management (Fees and Funding)

MA in Creative and Media Enterprises (Fees and Funding)

MA in Global Media and Communication (Fees and Funding)

David Wright's new article, 'Making tastes for everything: omnivorousness and cultural abundance' has been published in the latest edition of the Journal for Cultural Research. The article offers some speculative discussion on the current state of what has been termed 'the omnivore debate', about emerging patterns of cultural consumption in Western societies. It argues that some of the 'discoveries' about omnivorousness - especially those relating to the crossing of cultural hierarchies - are increasingly unremarkable in a world where 'legitimate' and 'popular' culture are distributed on commercial terms and central to the curricula of accrediting institutions. This might require new ways of finding out how 'taste' matters to social organisation.

Warwick students can read the article via the library web-page here

The article is available via the Journal Home-page here

You can follow David Wright's research on Academia.edu