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Management and Creativity: from creative industries to creative management
by Dr Chris Bilton
This book was published by Blackwells in August 2006. The book draws on Chris’s experience teaching the MA in Creative and Media Enterprises to challenge the stereotypical opposition between ‘creatives’ and ‘suits’. Creativity, he suggests, is not just about spontaneous discovery and inspiration, it is also a self-conscious, deliberately managed process. Similarly, management is not only shaped by rational processes, it also involves insight, intuition, creativity and risk. Described in Management Today as ‘outstanding and provocative’, the book explores the relationship between the management of creativity and creative approaches to management.
Further information about the book, including reviews and ordering details, is available on the Blackwells website. The book is also available from Amazon.
Download the podcast with Chris Bilton on creative management, talking about some of the issues raised in the book.
Art: Key Contemporary Thinkers
by Jonathan Vickery and Diarmuid Costello
Jonathan Vickery, Course Director of the MA International Design and Communication Management in the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies has collaborated with Diarmuid Costello from Warwick’s philosophy department to produce a new anthology of critical writing on art and culture. Featuring an international array of writers, the anthology covers many of the ideas, theories and thinkers that have helped form our very concept of art and our frameworks of interpretation.
This was published by Berg of Oxford in January 2007.
Research seminar series
During the Spring Term the Centre was pleased to welcome speakers including David Hesmondhalgh, Professor Jonothan Neelands and Dr. Joe Winston as part of the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies Seminar Series. The seminars aim to engage with a range of critical speakers whose ideas confront issues relevant for the study and research of cultural policy. The seminar series is organised by the Centre's research students.
Details of future seminars will be updated here, however please contact us if you would like to be added to our mailing list by emailing P.Watkins@warwick.ac.uk.
Centre graduate wins bursary in BBC Talent Urban Music Awards
Lisa Telfer, who has just graduated from the MA in Creative and Media Enterprises, has been awarded a £7,500 bursary to further her talents in PR and event management in the UK's urban music scene. Lisa beat off stiff competition along the way with the support of her local urban music record store, 2Funky Records, in Leicester where she is based. As well as participating in a three day residency of workshops the bursary will also give her the chance to benefit from mentoring by industry professionals and broaden her network of contacts. Listen to Lisa's report on the BBC website.