Eduardo Saravia – Colombia/Germany
Chief Economist at Sound Diplomacy Eduardo Saravia is a cultural economist with over 16 years of experience designing and evaluating policies for the cultural a...
Kelly Wilhelm – Canada
Head of the Cultural Policy Hub at OCAD University Kelly Wilhelm (she/her) is a consultant and strategist with more than 25 years’ experience leading pol...
Wakiuru Njuguna – Kenya
Managing Partner, HEVA Fund Wakiuru Njuguna is a seasoned expert in Africa’s creative industries, with over 15 years ofexperience in structuring investment ve...
Sara Pepper – UK
Co-Director of the Centre for the Creative Economy at Cardiff University Professor Sara Pepper OBE is an award winning and professionally respected creative and...
Octavio Kulesz – Argentina/Italy
Director of Teseo Octavio Kulesz is a philosopher, digital publisher, and director of Teseo, one of Latin America’s leading electronic publishing houses. ...
Increasing inequality in arts and culture revealed by new research
Embargoed 00.01 Wednesday 7 May 2025 A new report from the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (Creative PEC) provides fresh insight on Arts, Culture...
State of the Nations Report Launch: Arts, Culture and Heritage: Recent Trends in UK Workforce and Engagement in England
Join us for the launch of the next report in our State of the Nations series Wednesday 7 May 2025 | 12:00 (GMT) | Online via Zoom Register for your free place t...
Industry Insights
Policy
Creative PEC’s Industry Champions network of practitioners and professionals provides the Centre with expert perspectives on the creative industri...
Ruoxi Wang
Research Associate at the Sheffield Methods Institute, University of Sheffield...
New Government-backed survey will provide unprecedent insight on what drives growth in the creative industries
In further indication of the increasing importance the Government is putting on the creative industries, a new initiative launches this week that will provide u...
Make Freelancing Pay
New research shows innovative tax and benefits policies could transform UK Screen Industry freelancers’ livelihoods. The research reveals that innovative tax ...
Creative Employers Skills Survey
The Creative Employer Skills Survey is a new survey of 1,300 businesses across the creative industries in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
The...
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Creative Business Panel
The Creative Business Panel (CBP) is a 5-wave longitudinal study to track the behaviours, performance and experiences of businesses across all creative sub-sect...
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UK Government’s growth ambitions threatened by widening creative industries skills gap
Embargoed 00.01 GMT Wednesday 12 February 2025 The rapid growth of the UK’s creative industries has earned them a place in the UK government’s Industrial St...
Live Research
In addition to our flagship State of the Nations research reports, the Creative PEC works with many partners across the UK on creative industries-based research...
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Creative PEC: A Year in Review
Looking back at Creative PEC in 2024 - a year of policy, research and industry achievements, events, reports and impact....
Seminar Series: Digital Culture: Emerging trends in museums online
Thursday 5th December 2024 | 15:00 GMT
Hear from Professor Trilce Navarrete who will discuss her ongoing work on the valuation of museums online....
Seminar Series: The UGC Revolution: Transforming China’s Cultural and Creative Industries
Friday 6 December 2024 | 14:00 GMT
Anthony Fung's presentation explores the concept of "digital labour" within China's cultural and creative industries. It exa...
Invest at scale in place-based approaches to unleash potential of ‘Foreign Direct Investment’ in UK’s creative industries says new research
Embargoed 00.01 Wednesday 20 November 2024 GMT With the UK Government’s forthcoming industrial strategy highlighting the creative industries as a key sector f...
Seminar Series
Past Seminars Take a look at previous seminars from the series and watch recordings of the seminars....
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State of the Nations Report launch: Foreign Direct Investment in the UK’s Creative Industries
Wednesday 20 November 2024 | 12noon | Online via Zoom.
Join us for the launch of the next report in the State of the Nations series...
With the right financial support creative industries could fuel the Government’s growth mission and help tackle persistent regional inequality
A new report published today by the AHRC-funded Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (Creative PEC) says re-imagining growth finance could boost the c...
State of the Nations Report launch: Growth Finance for Creative Industries
Wednesday 16th October 2024 | 12noon | Online via Zoom.
Join us for the launch of our fifth report in the State of the Nations series...
Seminar Series: “The cost of undoing Europe”: Brexit and the UK textile and the apparel industry
Thursday 3rd October 2024 | 15:00 BST
Hear from Professor Simona Iammarino who will be presenting her research on the effects of Brexit and it's impact on the t...
Seminar Series: Competing for Equality: Gender Bias Among Juries in International Piano Competitions, 1890-2023
Karol J. Borowiecki presents his latest research about gender bias among juries in the universe of international piano competitions....
Nesta Creative Economy Archive
Between 2006 and 2018, Nesta produced a series of influential research papers on a wide range of topics spanning the creative economy. The Creative PEC as an in...
Access to Finance: launch of new research project
New research is being undertaken by Creative UK in partnership with the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC) and BVA BDRC, supported by the Crea...
New research points to a looming creative economy skills shortage across the UK
New report shows ‘severe’ decline in creative further education participation Embargoed 17 July 00.01 BST A looming creative economy skills shortage is fear...
Report launch: Creative Education in the Four Nations
Join us at the launch of our fourth report in the State of the Nations series...
Report launch: UK Arts, Culture and Heritage – Audiences and Workforce
Join us at the launch of our third report in the State of the Nations series...
Press Release: UK’s creative industries are an export success story
New report shows creative strength despite Brexit and Covid Embargoed 00.01 Wednesday 20 March 2024, UK time Today, new research has been published showing that...
Rupert Oliver Allen
Manager of Economic Analysis, Creative Industries Sector, Department of Canadian Heritage...
Seminar Series: What is ‘Psychic Income?’
Hear from Professor Doug Noonan about his latest research measuring 'Psychic Income', intangible impacts like creative freedom and job satisfaction that can ben...
Seminar Series: The value of culture and cultural capital externalities
Professor Trine Bille will be discussing a proposal that suggests that cultural policy should take inspiration from the economics of education in terms of furth...
Seminar Series: The role of emotions – Cultural interventions and behavioural change
What is the role of art in influencing behaviour change? This discussion brings together ideas from neuroscience, psychology and anthropology to explore the int...
Seminar Series: The economic geography of fashion design in South Africa – Potential beyond large fashion cities?
There is increasing recognition that fashion design is an important growth area for the African creative economy and plays a role in job creation and economic d...
‘One Creative North’ plans finalised at summit ahead of Convention of the North
30 organisations meet to set out a bold new vision for the north of England’s creative industries Today (22 February) representatives and leaders from 30 orga...
State of the Nations: UK Trade in a Global Creative Economy
The online launch of our second State of the Nations report...
Andrea Dempster Chung – Jamaica
Andrea Dempster Chung is the co-founder and executive director of Kingston Creative, an NGO that uses arts to achieve social and economic transformation....
Press Release: Investing in ‘creative clusters’ is key to economic growth– and helping to level up the UK economy
A new report published today, provides fresh insight on where policy intervention could be best targeted to bolster the creative industries and help level up th...
Research by Theme
Explore our published research covering the ten thematic areas of the research programme established in the first five years of the Creative PEC.
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Arts, Culture and Heritage
Introduction
The Arts, Culture and Heritage sectors includes our museums and galleries, as well as the video games, music and film and TV industries. These d...