Cultural and Media Policy Studies News and Events
Personal Professorship for Dr Jeremy Ahearne
We are delighted to announce that our colleague Jeremy Ahearne has been promoted to a personal Professorship in the Department of French Studies (with effect from October 2011). Jeremy has long been closely associated with the Centre. He has co-developed new collaborative research themes (such as intellectuals and cultural policy, cultural policy and religion, and implicit cultural policy). He is also co-teaching for us this year a new module entitled ‘Cultural Policy outside Cultural Policy’.
Dr Belfiore is involved in a successful consortium bid for development funding under the AHRC’s ‘Connected Communities’ scheme
Dr Belfiore is part of an interdisciplinary consortium of UK-based scholars, practitioners and policy makers, co-ordinated by Dr Andrew Miles of CRESC (University of Manchester), which was successful in securing an AHRC development funding grant under the ‘Connected Communities’ scheme. The development funding will allow the research team to work towards a large-scale bid for a project entitled “Understanding everyday participation – Articulating cultural values”.
Eleonora Belfiore joins jury of Cultural Policy Research Award (CPRA)
Eleonora Belfiore has joined this year the international jury of the Cultural Policy Research Award (CPRA), an initiative of the European Cultural Foundation, in collaboration with the European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centres (ENCATC).
The award, introduced in 2004, aims to encourage young researchers in the field of cultural policy studies, by promoting “research projects which shed light on contemporary European cultural issues and challenges by analyzing them and offering policy solutions”.