Past Events

Join Dr Josh Siepel, Senior Lecturer (Sussex University) and Creative PEC Research Consortium Partner for R&D, Innovation and Clusters, as he discusses the findings from the research. Introduced by Professor… Read More »Online Launch: Geographies of Creativity – State of the Nations research series

Join creative industry policy makers, researchers and practitioners from around the UK for a day of lightning talks, panel discussions, keynotes and performances. The State of Creativity will be held… Read More »The State of Creativity – A free, one-day conference

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 enterprises, contractual terms became standardised and… Read More »The Society of Authors Meets Hollywood: Why authors and playwrights lost out

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, this event will be hosted… Read More »Intellectual Property, Citizenship, and American Racial Imaginaries

What goes on in the creative sector plays a significant role in shaping the national conversation – representation matters. This sector knows better than any other that diversity breeds creativity.… Read More »Be inspired to make the change: Socio-economic inclusion in the Creative Industries

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 sector the nightmare of… Read More »Culture 2022: what should we expect?

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 bring together leading contributors… Read More »COVID-19: “The great unequaliser?”

Despite no evidence of difference in the creative abilities of men and women, female artists remain underrepresented and unequally recognised across the creative professions. Research on this topic has emphasised… Read More »Gender differences in musician creativity and their influence on collaboration and genre association

The creative industries can be a catalyst of innovation across all sectors, enabling transformative new products and services which can drive regional economic growth, wellbeing and quality of life. In… Read More »How can the West Midlands harness the potential of Createch?

Join AEA Consulting and the Global Cultural Districts Network, for the next session of the GCDN Conversations series: Do cultural districts foster the creative economy?

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 five years. These are… Read More »CREATe Symposium

This panel discussion focuses on the ongoing initiatives and projects that engage with the creative culture sector (including live music) in the West Midlands due to the upcoming Commonwealth Games… Read More »Commonwealth Games 2022 cultural programme and the impact of the Brexit-Covid duo on Birmingham

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 paper explores how… Read More »Creative industries and intersectional barriers

This short talk will briefly present two recent research projects – the 2019 report on the ‘representation of Female Artists in Britain commissioned by the Freelands Foundation’ and a quantitative… Read More »Creative work and gender