Current Programmes
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Key Statistics
Statistics on the UK's Creative Industries
In 2001 the Creative Industries were defined by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) as tho...
Events
Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events
Find out about our upcoming seminars, report launches, and policy events. We hold our events online and in person. Register e...
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Policy
Creative PEC’s policy team works across all our research areas, producing policy briefings, analysis, and recommendations, as part of Creative PEC’s mission...
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About
The Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (Creative PEC) works to support the growth of the UK’s creative industries through the production of indepe...
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Global Creative Economy Council
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Welcome to the new Global Creative Economy Council (GCEC), a joint initiative between Creative PEC and British Council. Here you c...
Industry Champions
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Meet our Industry Champions. They are a UK-wide network of practitioners, drawn from all parts of the creative industries to provide Cre...
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Research Alumni
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Our Research Alumni made up our research consortium during Creative PEC’s first phase from 2018-2023....
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Core Team
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Meet our Core Team who are based between Newcastle University and RSA House, London....
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Research Fellows Network
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Meet our Research Fellows Network. They are leading experts from diverse backgrounds, areas of specialism and parts of the globe. They facilitate ...
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Consortium Partners
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Meet our Research Consortium Partners. They are based at Sussex University, Sheffield University, Work Advance, as well as our own institu...
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How we work
About
Overview
Creative PEC started in 2018 at Nesta, and in 2023 we moved to Newcastle University, evolving to a twin-hub structure with ...
What we do
Creative PEC started in 2018 at Nesta, and in 2023 we moved to Newcastle University, evolving to a twin-hub structure with the southern hub based at RSA House....
Government Submissions
Policy
Our discussion papers provide authentic and independent research about the creative industries and an informed discussion of the policy issues that ...
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Policy Briefs
Policy
We aim to help policymakers identify the policy implications of academic research and industry insight on the creative industries....
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New research calls for change in film, TV and games sectors to improve access and progression for disadvantaged young people
While the film, TV and games industries are one of the UK’s greatest success stories, new research calls for change from the sector to provide disadvantaged y...
Internationalisation
Introduction
The UK’s Creative Industries have created globally recognised brands, products and services, from the James Bond franchise, to pop super stars...
Education, Skills, Talent
Introduction
The Creative Industries are a UK success story. Between 2011 – 2019, the sector grew at double the rate of the UK economy as a whole, and sinc...
R&D, Innovation and Clusters
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The Creative Industries can be found in every corner of the UK, but they are not spread evenly. Creative firms are concentrated in specific plac...
Online Launch: Geographies of Creativity – State of the Nations research series
Join Dr Josh Siepel, Senior Lecturer (Sussex University) and Creative PEC Research Consortium Partner for R&D, Innovation and Clusters, as he discusses the find...
Introducing the PEC’s International Council
We’re delighted to announce that the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC) and the British Council are collaborating on an exciting initiative ...
Leandro Valiati – Brazil and South America
Senior Lecturer and Programme Director in Creative and Cultural Industries Programmes, University of Mancheste...
Diana Marcela Rey Vásque – Colombia-Canada
Cultural Statistics Expert at UNDP for Saudi Arabia, Associate Researcher at Lado B...
Omar Nagati – Egypt
Architect, Urban Planner and Co-founder of CLUSTER...
Jairaj Mashru – India
Advisor - Design, Innovation and Creative Entrepreneurship...
Marcel Kraus – Czech Republic
Head of the Hyb4City department at Charles University's Hybernská Campus, Prague...
Avril Joffe – South Africa
Post Graduate Coordinator of the Cultural Policy & Management Department at the Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand...
Edna dos Santos-Duisenberg – Switzerland and Brazil
Vice-President, International Federation on Multimedia Associations...
Laura Callanan – United States
Founding Partner of Upstart Co-Lab...
Daniar Amanaliev – Kyrgyzstan
Co-founder and Band Master of ololo group, Chair of Kyrgyzstan’s Creative Industries Park Board...
Work with us
Creative PEC is commissioning research to investigate how specialist creative education providers support career pathways into the creative industries. The focu...
Cross-Cutting
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Research that cuts across all of our themes.
Publications and Posts
Research Reports
Policy Briefings
Press Releases
Blo...
Public Service Broadcasting
Introduction
A widely agreed definition of public service broadcasting is that it should revolve around a public service ethos, one that stands in contrast t...
Business Models & Access to Finance
Introduction
Business models refer to the ways in which businesses organise themselves to provide value to customers and generate revenue. Creative businesse...
Diversity and Inclusion
Introduction
Academic research and high-profile campaigns have established that the creative industries have e serious institutional and workforce problems. ...
R&D and Innovation
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The innovation process involves the research, development, and introduction of new products, services, experiences, production processes and way...
Intellectual Property and Regulation
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Exploring the ways in which people’s rights to benefit from their creative products and services are protected, and how the emergence of new t...
Skills, Jobs, and Education
Introduction
The success of the creative industries can be attributed in large part to its workforce. It is the talents, capabilities and innovation of creat...
International, Trade and Immigration
Introduction
The creative industries are global. Countries around the world are increasingly prioritising them in an attempt to harness their economic, socia...
The Value of Arts and Culture
Introduction
Measuring the economic and social value of the arts and cultural sector to local and national economies is critical. The experiences of arts and...
State of the Nations
The Creative PEC’s ‘State of the Nations’ report series uses the latest data to inform policymakers, industry and researchers on economic developments in ...
Geography of the Creative Industries
Introduction
Companies, organisations and practitioners in the creative industries tend to be physically near each other, often in localised clusters. But wh...
Who we are
About
The Creative PEC is led by Newcastle University with the Royal Society of Arts and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC...
Press release: With coordinated action North of England based creative industries could add £10bn to the UK economy
Today, the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) and the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (Creative PEC), led by Newcastle Unive...