Cultural and Media Policy Studies News and Events

We are delighted to announce that from the start of April the Centre will be welcoming Clive Gray to the team. Clive will be taking responsibility for the development of the Centre’s MA in International Cultural Policy and will be contributing to teaching and research activities within the University. Clive has published widely on the politics of cultural policy with articles in The International Journal of Cultural Policy and Cultural Trends, as well as in such politics journals as Parliamentary Affairs and Public Administration. He is currently researching issues of structure and agency in the museums and galleries sector, as well as the role of professional organisations in influencing cultural policy.

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 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”.