Research Seminars
We host national and international speakers who share their latest research with our community. From video games workers to cultural inequalities in urban schools, from artist's working conditions to evaluating cities of culture, we learn so much about the value of culture and cultural values.
Monday 22nd April 2024 Earth Day - The True Cost 17:00 - 19:00 FAB 0.21 Cinema Room
Join us this Earth Day for a screening of The True Cost, which explores the devastating environmental and human impact of fast fashion and highlights the harms that our consumption habits have on communities around the world, particularly in the Global South. The film is a prompt to consider how we can advocate for change to work towards a fairer, more ethical fashion industry.
The documentary will be introduced by Dr. Jane Webb (School of Cross-Faculty Studies) and is sponsored by the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies. The event will be followed by pizza. Please use the button on this page to register your attendance.
8th June 2023 CMPS Annual Lecture with Prof Angela McRobbie, Dr Carolina Bandinelli, Dr Dan Strutt Fashion as Creative Economy
Featuring Angela McRobbie, Dan Strutt and Carolina Bandinelli discussing their book, Fashion as Creative Economy (Polity, 2022). Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in London, Berlin and Milan the book analyses the relations between urban policy regimes, micro-enterprises, the emerging political economy of fashion and the structures needed for designers to flourish.
Angela McRobbie is Emeritus Professor at Goldsmiths University of London Daniel Strutt is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. Carolina Bandinelli is Associate Professor in Media and Creative Industries at the University of Warwick.
7th December 2022 Research Seminar with Dr Sara Marino, London College of Communication,1-2pm FAB 1:01
'TikTok diasporas and Ukrainian refugees: material and affective affordances'
Sara Marino is Senior Lecturer in the Communications and Media programme at London College of Communication
23rd November 2022 Research Seminar with Prof Mark Banks, University of Glasgow 1-2pm FAB1:01
'Popular pleasures in post-growth societies: or, will Picasso and Messi exist in the future?'
Mark Banks, is Professor of Cultural Economy, School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow
9th November 2022 Research Seminar with Dr Aleena Chia, Goldsmiths, University of London, 1-2pm FAB1:01
'Routine automations of creativity in video production'
Aleena Chia Lecturer in Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London
3rd May 2022 Informal seminar with Miikka Pyykkonen, University of JyväskyläLink opens in a new window, Finland
An informal seminar with Miikka Pyykkonen, Professor of Cultural Policy at University of JyväskyläLink opens in a new window, Finland to chat about the latest research on the work conditions within the creative and cultural sector, for freelancers and entrepreneurs, and the idea of studying this issue Europe-wide (such as through the recent Horizon bid proposal).
Connect with Miikka at miikka.pyykkonen@jyu.fi
26th April 2022 Informal seminar with Dr Derron Wallace, Brandeis University, USA
An Informal Seminar with Dr Derron Wallace, Assistant Professor of Education and Sociology, Brandeis University, USA to talk about research in cross-national studies of structural and cultural inequalities in urban schools across global cities, and current research which examines the educational outcomes of Black youth in London and New York City.
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1st March 2022 Dr Louise Ejgod Hansen, Aarhus University Informal seminar with the Head of Research at Centre for Cultural Evaluation, Aarhus University
A lunchtime informal seminar with Louise Ejgod Hansen, Associate Professor, Head of Research at Centre for Cultural Evaluation to share research on Aarhus 2017 and dialogue with colleagues working on and connected to Coventry City of Culture 2021 and its legacy. You can connect with Louise at draleh@cc.au.dkLink opens in a new window or on Twitter @LouiseEjgod. See more on the research-led evaluation of Aarhus 2017 on https://projects.au.dk/aarhus2017/Link opens in a new window . Copy of University of Warwick's Cultural Policy and Evaluation Summit, July 2021 - https://warwick.ac.uk/wie/warwickengages/ahrcpolicysummit/hp-contents/cpes_summit_summary_4.10_lo.pdfLink opens in a new window
19th January 2022 Dr. Maitrayee Basu, London College of Communication, Mediation, Affect, Solidarity: Frozen Narratives to Wayward Narratives in Aman Sethi’s A Free Man
In this talk Basu explores some of the ways in which lived experiences of Sethi’s characters in A Free Man might challenge the assumptions of neoliberal masculinism and social mobility which forms the basis of the stigmatisation of the poor. In centralising the affects of moving through the city while being poor, homeless and evading state control, this narrative mobilises radical solidarity around the experiences and agencies of the marginalised outside of state control.
Dr Maitrayee Basu, a Lecturer in Communications and Media at London College of Communication. Her research focuses on transnational activism, representations of marginalised bodies and experiences, and digital identities from the global south. Follow @MaitrayeeB
24th November 2021 Dr Mafalda Dâmaso, Kings College London, Can cultural policy be transnationalised? The case of the European Union
Dr Mafalda Dâmaso is Lecturer in Creative Industries and Policy at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her research examines the processes through which cultural policies and practices support or reject the movement towards transnational forms of participation, governance and belonging, bringing cultural policy into dialogue with political theory and international relations scholarship.
17th November 2021 Dr Ali FitzGibbon, Queen's University Belfast, The devaluation of the artist in theatre and theatre policy, evolving or recurring?
Dr Ali FitzGibbon is a Senior Lecturer and Subject Lead for Arts Management and Cultural Policy at Queen’s University Belfast. Her research focuses on decision-making and the ethics and ecologies of contemporary cultural production. particularly performing arts and freelancers/artists. Her doctoral research on the artist as stakeholder was shortlisted for the 2020 ENCATC Research Award and she has published in a range of international journals. She has over 25 years’ experience as a multi-arts producer, programmer and consultant, including conceiving the world’s first Baby Rave in 2005. In 2020, she worked as a creative consultant to the Department for Communities (NI) on proposals for a Arts & Cultural Recovery Strategy, leading to the establishment of the Arts, Culture & Heritage Taskforce. She is Co-Investigator on ‘Freelancers in the Dark’ (ESRC) and ‘Future Screens NI’, part of the UK Creative Industries
3rd November 2021 Dr Paolo Ruffino, University of Liverpool, ‘Union organising and workers’ visibility in the Videogame Industry’
Paolo Ruffino is Lecturer in Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of Future Gaming: Creative Interventions in Video Game Culture (Goldsmiths and MIT Press, 2018), editor of Rethinking Gamification (Meson Press, 2014), and Independent Videogames: Cultures, Networks, Techniques and Politics (Routledge, 2021). His research focuses on independent videogame development, labor unions in the videogame industry, and the emergence of nonhuman and posthuman play in the digital age.