Seminar Series: Digital Culture: Emerging trends in museums online
Thursday 5th December 2024 | 15:00 GMT
Hear from Professor Trilce Navarrete who will discuss her ongoing work on the valuation of museums online.
Seminar Series: The UGC Revolution: Transforming China’s Cultural and Creative Industries
Friday 6 December 2024 | 14:00 GMT
Anthony Fung’s presentation explores the concept of “digital labour” within China’s cultural and creative industries. It examines recent data in the context of the economic downturn, focusing on the sustainability of content production and market revenues on digital platforms, and the profitability of user-generated content.
Seminar Series: “The cost of undoing Europe”: Brexit and the UK textile and the apparel industry
Thursday 3rd October 2024 | 15:00 BST
Hear from Professor Simona Iammarino who will be presenting her research on the effects of Brexit and it’s impact on the textile and apparel industry in the UK
Seminar Series: Competing for Equality: Gender Bias Among Juries in International Piano Competitions, 1890-2023
Karol J. Borowiecki presents his latest research about gender bias among juries in the universe of international piano competitions.
Seminar Series: What is ‘Psychic Income?’
Hear from Professor Doug Noonan about his latest research measuring ‘Psychic Income’, intangible impacts like creative freedom and job satisfaction that can benefit creative workers.
Seminar Series: The value of culture and cultural capital externalities
Professor Trine Bille will be discussing a proposal that suggests that cultural policy should take inspiration from the economics of education in terms of further understanding the private and public value of cultural assets such as theatres, libraries, exhibitions, and concerts.
Seminar Series: The role of emotions – Cultural interventions and behavioural change
What is the role of art in influencing behaviour change? This discussion brings together ideas from neuroscience, psychology and anthropology to explore the interplay between emotions and human adaptability, with a particular focus on ‘dual-process’ models and how impulsive reactions can be circumvented to enable more deliberative processing.
Seminar Series: The economic geography of fashion design in South Africa – Potential beyond large fashion cities?
There is increasing recognition that fashion design is an important growth area for the African creative economy and plays a role in job creation and economic development.