Live Research

Live Research Projects

Explore details of our current live research projects that are in addition to our scheduled programme of ‘State of the Nations’ research reports. Please note that this list is not exhaustive and is regularly updated. For details on any of the below please contact: research@pec.ac.uk

Working Title: Specialist Creative Education Provision

Project Partner: A research co-commission funded by Creative PEC and DCMS, being delivered by Ipsos Mori.

To provide insight and information on the creative education landscape for 14–19 year olds, including whether specialist education providers maximise opportunities for students, as well as meeting the skills needs of both creative industries businesses and businesses outside the creative industries that feature creative occupations, compared to non-specialist providers.

The research is due to be completed by May 2025. For further information please contact Dr Tom Cahill-Jones at tom.cahill-jones@pec.ac.uk.

Working Title: Access to Finance Survey of Creative Industries Firms

Project Partner: Creative UK

This report will present the findings of a survey of Creative Industries firms in the UK, conducted in partnership with Creative UK. Based on econometric analysis of responses from nearly 900 organisations during July-September 2024, the report will provide detailed up-to-date insights into how Creative Industries businesses engage with finance, their ambitions to grow and innovate, the specific barriers they face, and the disparities in investment that exist across demographics and regions. The report will reveal critical challenges in the investment landscape for the Creative Industries and make policy recommendations by which government and public agencies can help realise the sector’s high-growth potential as identified in the Industrial Strategy Green Paper.

The research is due to be completed by December 2024. For further information please contact Professor Hasan Bakhshi at hasan.bakhshi@pec.ac.uk.

Working Title: R&D Collaborations

Creative PEC Research Unit

Designed to fill the evidence gap by looking at the knowledge networks generated by public funding in creative research and innovation. Specifically, using the entire UK Research and Innovation dataset of funded projects over a period of fifteen years, classifying them into creative and non-creative based on their creative intensity and then analyse collaborations between public and private organisations using a social network analysis approach. This allows us to map the knowledge networks (public, private or public-private) generated by each project. 

The research is due to be completed December 2024. For further information please contact Dr Rodrigo Cavalcante Michel at rodrigo.michel@newcastle.ac.uk.

Working Title: Measuring the Economic Value of Digital Culture: A Contingent Valuation of Art UK Platform

Project Partner: Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)

Economic valuation techniques such as contingent valuation are gaining increasing currency in the UK’s cultural and heritage sector. Under the umbrella of the DCMS’s Culture and Heritage Capital Framework, policymakers and funders are stressing to cultural institutions the need to express the value of their work in monetary terms, even in cases where the value of the cultural services they provide cannot be observed in market prices. While the application of such techniques has resulted in a marked increase in publications presenting willingness-to-pay estimates for a broad range of cultural and heritage assets, applications to digital culture remain few and far between. In this paper, we present the findings of a contingent valuation study of Art UK, which brings together for free on one platform digitised artworks from every public art collection in the UK.

The research is due to be completed by January 2025. For further information please contact Professor Hasan Bakhshi at hasan.bakhshi@pec.ac.uk.

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