Dr Cath Sleeman is the Quantitative Research Fellow at Nesta. Her work shows new insights from novel sources of big data, such as using film credits to reveal the gender imbalance in UK film. She specialises in creating interactive data visualisations. In 2015 she won the Bank of England’s data visualisation competition and in 2018 she won a special judges award for ‘A Forest of Funders’ in 360Giving’s data visualisation competition. She has been shortlisted twice for an Information is Beautiful award – most recently for Making Sense of Skills which shows how millions of job adverts can help to measure the demand for skills. Prior to Nesta, Cath was a Gates Scholar at Cambridge, completing a PhD in Economics. She has previously worked as a UK Economist at Morgan Stanley and as a Senior Economic Analyst at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand
Research Fellows
Philip Schlesinger
Professor at the Centre for Cultural Policy Research and CREATe, Centre for Regulation of the Creati…
Candace Jones
Chair of Global Creative Enterprise at the University of Edinburgh Business School
Gillian Doyle
Professor of Media Economics at the University of Glasgow and Director of the Centre for Cultural Po…
Max Nathan
Associate Professor, Applied Urban Sciences, UCL
Abigail Gilmore
UKRI Policy Fellow on Cultural Placemaking and Levelling Up with Department for Culture Media and Sp…
Neil Lee
Professor in Economic Geography at London School of Economics
Jenny Kidd
Senior Lecturer in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University
Bartolomeo Meletti
Creative Director for CREATe at the University of Glasgow
Roberto Camerani
Senior Lecturer in the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex Business School
Monica Masucci
Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Entrepreneurship in the Department of Strategy and Marketing at the …
Bruce Tether
Professor of Innovation Management and Strategy at the Alliance Manchester Business School
Stuart Allan
Professor and Head of the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University
Martin Kretschmer
Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Glasgow, and Director of CREATe
Frank Lyons
Dean of Research and Impact in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Ulster University
Hyojung Sun
Lecturer in the Business of the Creative and Cultural Industries, School of Arts and Creative Techno…
Salvatore Di Novo
Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King's College London
Patrizia Casadei
Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Geography and Environment of the London School o…
Kristofer Erickson
Professor of Social Data Science and Deputy Director for CREATE
Trine Bille
Full Professor, PhD Department of Business Humanities and Law, Copenhagen Business School Trine rece…
Tom Campbell
Consultant and BOP Associate Tom Campbell is a consultant and BOP Associate. Until recently he was H…
