Levelling Up and the Creative Industries: Resources for Local Authorities
Data and evidence to help local authorities understand levelling up and the creative industries These resources are designed for those working in Local Authorit...
National Statistics on the Creative Industries
A page collecting statistics from PEC’s research and other sources about the Creative Industries In 2001 the Creative Industries were defined by the Depar...
Creative Clusters Case Studies
Creative Clusters – Case Studies The creative clusters in these case studies share some common factors that can lead to success. For example, the role per...
Call for Expressions of Interest: Hosting the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre
The PEC are looking for a new host after AHRC announced their intention to continue funding our work We are delighted to announce that Arts and Humanities Resea...
Response to the DCMS Committee ‘Cultural Placemaking and the Levelling Up Agenda’
This submission from the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre aims to answer the questions posed by the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (D...
PEC Response to the Competition and Markets Authority’s proposed study ‘Music and streaming market’
This submission responds to the consultation by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) as part of its proposed market study on the ‘music and streaming ...
Take part in the PEC’s Good Work Review
A call for evidence about the quality of work in the creative sector Call for Evidence Deadline for responses: 5pm Friday 29 April 2022 Download the Call for Ev...
Press release: New independent review marks vital opportunity to improve working conditions in the Creative Industries
PEC launches six-week Call for Evidence for submissions on job quality and working practices Monday 21 March 2022 – The Creative Industries Policy an...
PEC’s Submission to the DCMS Committee inquiry Promoting Britain Abroad
This submission – made from the PEC to the DCMS Committee in January 2022 – addresses the role that the UK’s creative industries play (and could p...
PEC’s Submission to the House of Lords Communications and Digital Select Committee inquiry into the future of Channel 4
This submission is co-authored by Dr Tom Chivers and Professor Stuart Allan on behalf of the ‘Arts, Culture and Public Service Broadcasting’ workstrand at C...
Press Release: R&D should be at the heart of government thinking on the Creative Industries
New Policy Briefing, Research and Industry Insight from the PEC The government has rightly placed boosting R&D at the heart of its growth strategy for the U...
Spotlight on Creative R&D: a week of research and policy
A week of research, briefs and blogs into how we can make R&D work for the Creative Industries There is a reason the creative industries are growing so fast...
Creative education is vital to a post Covid-19 recovery
Press release: New research involving over 7,000 secondary school teachers finds creative subject teachers lead the way in preparing students for employment, an...
Press release: A new study asks ‘What is the Public Value of Public Service Broadcasting?’
A vital contribution to the debate about the future of UK broadcasting 13th January 2022 – New research published today makes a timely and vital cont...
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...