Cultural and Media Policy Studies News and Events

The Centre for Cultural Policy Studies at the University of Warwick and a-n The Artists Information Company are pleased to invite applications from outstanding candidates for an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award PhD studentship to commence October 2014 working on a project entitled ‘Artist-led contributions to the cultural value agenda: developing theory, methods and policy insight’.

The PhD will be supervised by Dr Eleonora Belfiore of Warwick University with Susan Jones, Director of a-n, as the designated non-HE supervisor.

This studentship will cover full-time University tuition fees and include an annual tax free stipend at standard AHRC rates (currently £13,726 a year). In addition, a-n will provide up to £1,000 pa to cover travel and research expenses to a total of £3000 over the studentship and up to £5000 towards fees to cover self-employed artists’ loss of earnings to contribute to research focus groups or interviews.

Deadline for applications: 25 June 2014

Interviews will be held at Warwick University on 8 July 2014

For more information, please click here.

We are pleased to announce that registrations are open for an event jointly hosted by the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies and the Sociology Department on 'Race, Racism and Digital Communication' that will take place on Wednesday 11th of June from 10:30am to 1pm.

The event is free and registrations are now open. You can register here.

Joanne Garde-Hansen will be running a British Council/FAPESP funded workshop at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil 23rd-24th April. This unique collaboration between Joanne, Prof Gilson Schwartz (USP), Prof Anna Reading (KCL), Prof Michael Pickering (Loughborough), Paulo Nassar (Aberje, Brazil) and Prof Lucia Santaella (PUCSP) tackles the theme of Beyond the Digital - Collective Memory and Social Networks in Emerging Global Conflicts. The methodology of the workshop is a combination of keynotes, discussion activities, presentations, visits, group work and hands-on guidance. The aim is to engage 10 UK Early Career Researchers with 10 Brazilian Early Career Researchers in cross-culturally developing and designing one or more international research proposals with potential to be submitted for funding. The workshop will cover the following:

1) The exploration of innovative areas of media, culture, arts and technology research in the context of global innovation and change

2) The role of memory, heritage, culture, archives and history to an emerging global democracy

3) The debate around the role of economics in cultural exchange from an international perspective

4) To be engaged, generate ideas, communicate and be committed to the workshop

5) To be exposed to new cross-disciplinary, cross-sector and cross-cultural ideas and opportunities

6) To share knowledge for trans-cultural research with a view to tackling future research issues and pathways

Joanne has said: "The workshop presents not only a first for the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, collaboration with Brazilian researchers, it also lays the foundations for extending the reach of the Centre's influence into Brazil, a key area in our exploration for recruiting the brightest global citizens to our well established postgraduate media, arts, creativity and cultural management programmes."