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Authors: Benjamin Kulka, Eliza Easton
From R&D tax relief, to arts funding, how does the budget impact the creative industries?
Authors: Dr Tom Chivers, Professor Stuart Allan
How Channel 4's unique status helps to grow the UK's independent film and TV production sector
Authors: Eliza Easton, Dr Salvatore Di Novo
A new data set showing the change in public spending on the arts in England from 2009 - 2022
Author: Dr James Davies
Universities expected to help address skill shortage in their region & provide benefits to employers
Authors: Dr Jenny Kidd, Dr Eva Nieto McAvoy, Billy Beckett
How blockchain and NFTs have created the new genre of Crypto Art
Author: Benjamin Kulka
PEC's Response and Analysis of the Government's November 2022 Budget
Authors: Dr Neil Lee, Dr Patrizia Casadei, Dr Enrico Vanino
New research into the scale, patterns, and growth of the UK's creative services trade sector
Author: Xiaoren Wang
Using data to inform legal decisions on ‘trade dress’ in the Creative Industries
Author: Professor Paul Moore
Paul Moore from Future Screens NI on the development and impact of the Art Work scheme
Regulation that discourages creativity in one aspect could simultaneously encourage it in another
Authors: Billy Beckett, Eliza Easton
A summary of some of the most important things local authorities need to know about the sector
Author: Eliza Easton
Tips and tricks for gathering data, designing surveys, and carrying out research
Case studies from the Creative Clusters programme
Author: Professor Andrew Chitty
Andrew Chitty blogs about the impact of the Creative Industries Clusters Programme
Author: Dr Heidi Ashton
Guest blog suggesting social inclusivity in the arts is hampered by inequality in our schools
Authors: Dr Jorge Velez-Ospina, Dr Josh Siepel, Inge Hill, Frances Rowe
Some key facts from the latest research into the rural creative economy
Stuart Allan and Tom Chivers outline their response to the White Paper on UK broadcasting policy
Authors: Dr Kenny Barr, Professor Martin Kretschmer
How to reform broadcasting so that it can compete in the modern media landscape
Four key findings that policy makers should consider when planning the future of Channel 4
Author: Kim van Broekhoven
Policymakers looking at the future workforce shouldn't make false dichotomies between arts & STEM
Author: Tom Cahill-Jones
Tom Cahill-Jones analyses the results from a survey of PEC's Industry Champions
Author: Chris Michaels
Five years on, Creative R&D is growing up into something magical & critical for what the UK can do
Creative sector is still lower priority than science sectors in innovation policy: this needs change
Authors: Dr Josh Siepel, Dr Jorge Velez-Ospina
Insights from the Creative Radar Study
Author: Tom Fiddian
How to design innovation programmes to make it easier for creative firms to access support
Author: Samantha Lynch
How investment in creative R&D will be at the heart of how the UK builds back better
Author: Alice Kent
Policy insights and a celebration of the creative industries from the PEC’s International Council
Author: Professor Anna Vignoles
Education is an investment, and not just in a narrow financial sense.
Alice Kent, PEC Comms Manager, on an important aspect of the new Pivot to Digital research paper
Greater recognition and sustained investment but missed opportunities
Author: Prof Dr Roberta Mock
Professor Roberta Mock, University of Plymouth introduces the Theatre Green Book.
Author: Professor Sandy Black
Prof Sandy Black blogs about her new research project on the fashion industry and net zero goals
Author: Stephen Bennett
Can art play a role in the intersection of climate science and policy?
Author: Dr Tarek Virani
Tarek Virani looks at the impacts of the pandemic on the UK's creative and cultural sector
Author: Dr Dave O’Brien
PEC & the Creative Diversity APPG look at ‘what works’ to support diversity in the creative economy
Authors: Dr Bethany Rex, Dr Peter Campbell
The latest findings on how local government spending on culture has changed over the last ten years
Authors: Dr Abigail Gilmore, Dr Ben Dunn, Dr Victoria Barker, Dr Mark Taylor
'Levelling Up’ policy must take needs of different places into account to create level playing field
Authors: Dr Inge Panneels, Professor Melissa Terras, Candace Jones, Dr Ingi Helgason, Dr Marlen Komorowski
A lack of data on the freelance workforce is a big problem for the creative industries
Authors: Hasan Bakhshi, Alex Bowyer, Richard Dorsett, Jessica Hug
Early findings from collaboration with University of Westminster & ESCoE on the creative workforce
A “one-size-fits-all” approach to skills and employment policy doesn't work for creative freelancers
Authors: Dr Josh Edelman, Dr Laura Harris, Dr Ali FitzGibbon
72.4% of performing arts freelancers are pessimistic about the future
Authors: Dr Patrizia Casadei, Professor Simona Iammarino
In recent months there have been growing concerns of a crisis of the UK's fashion & textile industry
Author: Dr Cath Sleeman
Using online museum collections to study the design of everyday objects
Author: Lesley Giles
A good start but the devil will be in the detail
Author: Professor Giorgio Fazio
What does the Brexit Trade Agreement mean for the UK's Creative Industries?
Author: Professor Martin Kretschmer
The responsibilities of platforms for their content is changing, in the UK, in the EU and globally
Author: Pier Luigi Sacco
Failure to address the issue could put UK’s cultural & creative economy at serious risk of decay
Authors: Dr Gwilym Owen, Dr Dave O’Brien, Dr Mark Taylor
New data from our COVID-19 project with Centre for Cultural Value shows 55,000 jobs lost in the arts
Author: Kerry Patterson
Regulation of communications has been brought to the fore & heightened debate on platform regulation
Author: Hasan Bakhshi
Reflecting on the latest from our study on how people consumed cultural content over past six months
Author: Dr Josh Siepel
Our research highlights small communities of creative businesses as engines of local/national growth
Authors: Dr Giuliana Giuliani, Dr Dave O’Brien, Dr Orian Brook
The idea of multiple jobs is associated with cultural/creative work, but what do we know about this?
Author: Felipe Mujica Cominetti
How Chile is approaching public investment in creative research and development
Author: Heather Carey
Our new research shows class imbalances across the creative sector. How can we rebuild it?
Learnings from our six-week study into cultural consumption during the UK's COVID-19 lockdown
Exploring the impact of Brexit on the creative industries: what UK sovereignty means for the sector
Author: Andy Pratt
The need to reform the cultural labour market & support the recovery of the ‘live’ culture crisis
Our International Council share challenges & inspiration from East Africa, Brazil & United States
Authors: Patrycja Rozbicka, Adam Behr, Craig Hamilton
A research project commissioned by the PEC tracks impact of major events on the live music industry
Authors: John Davies, Joel Klinger, Juan Mateos-Garcia, Kostas Stathoulopoulos
The importance of collaboration between artificial intelligence researchers & the creative sector
Author: Julia Bennett
Counting makers in our economic estimates to support the value craft adds to our economies & lives
Authors: Hasan Bakhshi, Ian Livingstone CBE
An opportunity to steer a generation towards learning skills that are both creative and digital
Equality needs to be considered in new organisational models for the cultural sector during COVID-19
How we consume culture at home is changing. We're following it for 6 weeks to better understand it.
Authors: Hasan Bakhshi, Professor Giorgio Fazio
Why govt, funders & industry should come together to support cultural consumption during Covid-19
Authors: Dr Josh Siepel, James Murray, Hasan Bakhshi
Helping government and trade groups to understand the impacts of the crisis on the sector
Authors: Raphael Leung, Eliza Easton
Our new research with Nesta highlights the importance of government support for these organisations
Author: Dr Martin Smith
Tracing the story behind the 2018 announcement of the Creative Industries Sector Deal
A lecture series from our researchers at The University of Glasgow
Authors: Dr Diana Gutierrez Posada, Dr Max Nathan
Positive links between the growth of creative industries activity & elsewhere in urban economies
Author: Neil Hatton
What the newly expanded Shortage Occupation List might mean for a future migration system
Author: Richard Sambrook
The difficulties of public service broadcasters in attracting and retaining young audiences
Authors: Dr Jenny Kidd, Dr Eva Nieto McAvoy
Exploring questions of accessibility, cost, the environment, data protection, re-creation & emotion
Authors: Catherine Allen, Chris Sizemore
The emerging immersive industry can and must reach today’s audience, at scale
How the Court decides cases, the amount it awards and who commonly brings claims
Author: Professor Leighton Andrews
Regulators need to crack Facebook's vertically-integrated advertising & microtargeting capabilities
Authors: Hasan Bakhshi, Professor Bill Lucas
It's not too late to reverse the decision for England to opt out of the PISA Creative Thinking study
Authors: Dr Jenny Kidd, Dr Joanne Sayner
The lessons drawn from five years of commemorative activity and the implications for cultural policy
Authors: Dr Eva Nieto McAvoy, Dr Caitriona Noonan
Report argues that safeguarding the future of PSB will require substantial changes in its provision
There is rich potential but also some way to go before we truly understand the value proposition
Authors: Professor Martin Kretschmer, Amy Thomas
Three key areas which are crucial to understand the contribution of the creative industries to trade
Our Industry Champions identify the policy changes needed to help their organisations & sectors
Author: Professor Bruce Tether
Our new Discussion Paper highlights scale of the policy challenge in reducing regional inequalities
Author: Dr Eva Nieto McAvoy
Defining the value of arts and culture to help clarify the policy priorities at stake
Authors: Dr Alessandro D’Arma, Minna Aslama Horowitz
Never before has the scale of challenges facing public service media institutions been so great
Exploring how big datasets can shine new light on gender representation in the creative industries.
A policy breakfast on how universities, communities & cultural institutions can best work together
Author: Dr Caitriona Noonan
Global Conference for Media Freedom brought together international contributors in dialogue & debate
Recent work in this area shows challenges and opportunities for the PEC’s research programme.
Author: Claudia Burger
Economic value of our creative industries is clear, but are they prioritised by political leaders?
Authors: Dr Roberta Comunian, Dr Scott Brook
We need to put pressure on HE providers to make the public value of creative vocations explicit
Author: Professor Andy Westwood
Higher education subsidies in the loan system shines a light on long-term costs of creative arts
The PEC looks at two ways location impacts the creative industries: creative clusters & innovation.
Creative industries are a UK success story, growing at double the rate of the rest of the economy.
Author: Professor Stuart Allan
Understanding public value creation in the creative industries, arising from public investment.
Authors: Professor Martin Kretschmer, Professor Philip Schlesinger
Are the creative industries becoming a subset of data intensive industries?
International competitiveness of UK’s creative industries will become more important in the future.
The design industry is arguably under-performing, with huge opportunity to apply design to services
Economic statistics for the sector speak for themselves, yet headline statistics mask challenges.