Cultural and Media Policy Studies News and Events

David Wright's new book, Understanding Cultural Taste: Sensation, Skill and Sensibility has now been published by Palgrave Macmillan.

The book updates and critiques some established perspectives on cultural taste, exploring how taste has been, theorised, identified and measured and how taste is implicated in debates about policy, cultural production and technology. It reflects on the ideas of taste as ‘just’ a matter of personal preference and its place as a weapon in social struggles. Taste, the book argues, is about more than consumer choice. It has historical associations with aesthetics, morality and the training of people for social life. Attention to these complexities remains important to students and researchers trying to understand the role of taste and tasting in the contemporary world.

You can find more details, reviews and download a sample chapter via the publisher’s website here

MyChainReaction is an interdisciplinary ESRC funded Impact Accelerator project led by a team of researchers from WMG (Warwick Manufacturing Group) and the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies (CCPS) at the University of Warwick. It aims to increase levels of public knowledge and understanding of what a supply chain is and how we, as individuals, are an integral part of them locally, nationally and beyond.

The project wishes to commission an artistic response to the themes of the project and the data and narratives that emerge from it, and is offering a budget of £8,000 for a work of art that will have impact and engage public and academic audiences.

The deadline for submissions is Monday 3rd August. Please download the MyChainReaction Commission Brief (PDF) for further details.

If you have any queries, please contact: Ruth Leary, Principal Teaching Fellow
Centre for Cultural Policy Studies: r.leary@warwick.ac.uk