What is the public value of public service broadcasting?
This question has long been a subject of lively debate, bringing together the competing priorities of policymakers, stakeholders and members of the public. Rece...
A global agenda from the PEC’s International Council
You can now read the report in A Global Agenda for the Cultural and Creative Industries is the PEC’s contribution to the United Nations 2021 Interna...
PEC announces the launch of six new commissioned research projects
The research will cover everything from fashion and music, to migration and seaside towns The PEC’s open calls for commissioned research are a fantastic oppor...
A new partnership between the PEC and Julie’s Bicycle
Julie’s Bicycle is a pioneering charity that uses arts and culture to take action on climate change. They help other organisations work in a sustainable way, ...
The PEC’s new research focus on climate change
A page collecting all of our work on climate change and the creative industries. The UK’s Creative Industries are key contributors to climate change ̵...
How the PEC has responded to COVID-19
A look at PEC’s work over the last year to see how we have responded to the COVID-19 crisis Throughout the pandemic and lockdowns, the Creative Industries...
The Society of Authors Meets Hollywood: Why authors and playwrights lost out
In the early 20th century there was a fundamental shift in the industrial significance of authorship. Individual and family firms gave way to multi-national ent...
Intellectual Property, Citizenship, and American Racial Imaginaries
Anjali Vats will be delivering the first CREATe Online Public Lecture of the academic year 2021/22. Due to Covid-19 lockdown restrictions which remain in place,...
PEC’s Representation to the Autumn Spending Review
The UK’s creative industries – from film to fashion, and from video games to the performing arts – are integral to local communities throughout th...
Be inspired to make the change: Socio-economic inclusion in the Creative Industries
What goes on in the creative sector plays a significant role in shaping the national conversation – representation matters. This sector knows better than any ...
Press release: UK’s Creative Industries would need to employ 250,000 more working-class people to be as socio economically diverse as the rest of the economy
A call to Government and Industry to adopt a 10-year, 10-point Social Mobility Plan New report from the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre shows the...
Creative places: Why we must invest in our local creative industries
Making the case for targeted funding to creative microclusters around the UK. The creative industries are engines of growth. One in eight UK businesses are part...
Gender differences in musician creativity
A recording of Noah Askin’s fascinating talk on gender and creativity in music In this talk, Noah Askin describes his research looking at the relationship...
Cultural consumption in the UK – data and analysis from the six month studyGender differences in musician creativity
A summary of the data and blogs published as part of our COVID-19 digital consumer survey tracker Summary of the project The PEC partnered with the Intellectual...
Our second call for commissioned research projects
Recovery of creative sector: climate change, post-Brexit opportunities & business model innovation New report from the Creative Industries Policy and Eviden...
One Size Can’t Fit All: A Fortnight of Research and Policy on Creative Freelancers
Two weeks of the latest research and policy to help support creative freelancers Almost one third of the creative industries workforce is made up of freelancers...
One size can’t fit all
On February 10th the House of Commons Treasury Committee published the latest report of their inquiry into the economic impact of coronavirus. Their J...
Press release: Class inequalities in the UK’s Screen Industries: New research shows only one in four Screen workers are from working-class backgrounds
New study looks at issues of class diversity in Screen workforce & calls for change in the sector 22nd April 2021 – New research(1) into class diversi...
PEC and COVID-19: all our published work to date
Everything PEC has published on Covid-19 over the last 12 months A summary of everything that we have published about COVID-19 and the impact of lockdown and th...
Culture 2022: what should we expect?
The Covid pandemic has had a devastating impact on the arts and cultural industries throughout the UK and continental Europe. For much of the UK’s creative se...
How the pandemic is impacting creative sectors around the world
The creative industries have been severely impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. Over the past months our International Council has provided us with insigh...
COVID-19: “The great unequaliser?”
As part of the COVID-19 national research project, led by the Centre for Cultural Value in collaboration with the PEC and The Audience Agency, this event will ...
Gender differences in musician creativity and their influence on collaboration and genre association
Despite no evidence of difference in the creative abilities of men and women, female artists remain underrepresented and unequally recognised across the creativ...
How can the West Midlands harness the potential of Createch?
The creative industries can be a catalyst of innovation across all sectors, enabling transformative new products and services which can drive regional economic ...
Response to the Integrated Review: A new era of soft power?
Yesterday, the Government published the Integrated Review, a survey of the UK’s foreign policy and national security. The Review includes commitments to ...
Using computer vision to improve on-screen representation
Explore the research series A series about improving issues of diversity in the characters that we see on our screens The UK screen industry has a diversity (sp...
GCDN Conversations series: Do cultural districts foster the creative economy?
Join AEA Consulting and the Global Cultural Districts Network, for the next session of the GCDN Conversations series: Do cultural districts foster the creative ...
Response to the 2021 Budget: R&D, migration, skills and levelling-up
Our response to the 2021 Budget The PEC’s response to the 2021 Budget The creative industries – from film, to fashion, art, advertising, games, design a...
CREATe Symposium
CREATe, the UK Copyright and Creative Economy Centre based at the University of Glasgow, recently started work on a number of ambitious projects for the next fi...
Commonwealth Games 2022 cultural programme and the impact of the Brexit-Covid duo on Birmingham
This panel discussion focuses on the ongoing initiatives and projects that engage with the creative culture sector (including live music) in the West Midlands d...
The impact of COVID-19 on diversity in the creative industries
As part of our research agenda on the industry’s response to COVID-19, we partnered with the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Creative Diversity&...
Understanding how our habits of cultural consumption changed during lockdown – wave 9 data
Insights from the nine-week study into consumers cultural consumption habits – data from wave 9 of the survey This is the latest release of the data ...
Artificial intelligence, levelling-up and R&D: the PEC’s response to the Spending Review 2020
We analyse the Spending Review and the extent our recommendations feature in today’s announcement The creative industries – from film, to fashion, a...
Press release: Small engines of growth: New research finds over 700 small communities of creative businesses in cities, towns and villages across the UK
Study shows the importance of micro creative clusters as engines of local and national growth – The Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre finds 7...
What is the impact of COVID-19 on the creative industries?
Collecting data from the sector to help policymakers understand & respond to the ongoing crisis Collecting data from across the sector to help policymakers ...
Calling for a UK Centre for AI and the Creative Industries
A letter of support from the tech and creative sectors ahead of the Comprehensive Spending Review An open letter to the Chancellor in support of our proposal th...
COVID-19: Impacts on the cultural industries and the implications for policy
We’re collaborating with the Centre for Cultural Value on a 15-month research project We’re collaborating with the Centre for Cultural Value on a 15...
Beyond bailouts: three ways the upcoming Spending Review should support the creative industries
The creative industries – from film, to fashion, to creative digital – are now widely recognised as a thriving part of the UK economy, contributing&...
Press release: Just 16% of people in creative jobs are from working class backgrounds and those from privileged backgrounds more likely to shape what goes on stage, page and screen
Research on class imbalances across creative sector & programme of work for a more inclusive sector – New research from the Creative Industries Policy...
As lockdown eased: How our habits of cultural consumption at home are changing
The outbreak of COVID-19 and the halt on many cultural and creative activities, from live music, to museums, and cinemas, has changed the way that we experience...
Call for papers: Creative and cultural ecologies in European urban and regional development
Applications closed on 21st September 2020. An invite to take part in an online workshop and a call for papers The Department of Culture, Media and Creative Ind...
Creative industries and intersectional barriers
This paper discusses the politics of craft value and how it is communicated and recognised. Drawing on interviews with women makers of colour in the UK, the pap...
Creative work and gender
This short talk will briefly present two recent research projects - the 2019 report on the 'representation of Female Artists in Britain commissioned by the Free...
Charities speak
Using data science to understand the arts and cultural charities sector in England and Wales Charities affect all walks of life – they care for underprivi...