Rewatch the State of Creativity

Did you miss the State of Creativity? Now you can watch the whole event on our Youtube

Landmark Creative Industries report says: prioritise creative education, end unequal access to the arts and focus on the regenerative power of the creative sector

Creative PEC launches landmark report 'The State of Creativity' at conference with 400+ delegates

Growing skills shortage & international trade decline post-Brexit

Author: Alice Kent

New research points to worrying trends for the UK’s creative sector

Job opportunity at the Creative PEC: Deputy Director

The PEC, in partnership with Newcastle University and the RSA, is recruiting for a Deputy Director

Press Release: New Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre co-hosts announced

Author: Alice Kent

The AHRC have funded us for another five years - and we will co-hosted by Newcastle and the RSA

Major review of job quality in the Creative Industries

Launch of Good Work Review: Job Quality in the Creative Industries

Landmark report on the Creative Industries and Climate Emergency heralded as a ‘call to action’

A sector by sector overview of activity taking place in the creative industries to achieve Net Zero

Poorest areas excluded from Manchester’s creative industries success story

Research shows poorest parts of Manchester have few firms & little/no employment in creative sector

What happens to coastal towns when the holiday-makers leave?

Could investment in the Creative Industries be key to year-round, economic development?

Levelling Up and the Creative Industries: Resources for Local Authorities

Data and evidence to help local authorities understand levelling up and the creative industries

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

Take part in the PEC's Good Work Review

A call for evidence about the quality of work in the creative sector

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

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

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

Creative education is vital to a post Covid-19 recovery

New research finds creative subject teachers lead the way in preparing students for employment

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

PEC announces the launch of six new commissioned research projects

Author: Billy Beckett

The research will cover everything from fashion and music, to migration and seaside towns

A new partnership between the PEC and Julie's Bicycle

We will be working together to look at a climate research agenda for the creative industries

The PEC's new research focus on climate change

A page collecting all of our work on climate change and the creative industries.

How the PEC has responded to COVID-19

Author: Billy Beckett

A look at PEC's work over the last year to see how we have responded to the COVID-19 crisis

The 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

Creative places: Why we must invest in our local creative industries

Making the case for targeted funding to creative microclusters around the UK.

Gender differences in musician creativity

Author: Noah Askin

A recording of Noah Askin's fascinating talk on gender and creativity in music

Cultural consumption in the UK - data and analysis from the six month study

A summary of the data and blogs published as part of our COVID-19 digital consumer survey tracker

Our second call for commissioned research projects

Recovery of creative sector: climate change, post-Brexit opportunities & business model innovation

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

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

PEC and COVID-19: all our published work to date

Author: Billy Beckett

Everything PEC has published on Covid-19 over the last 12 months

Response to the 2021 Budget: R&D, migration, skills and levelling-up

Our response to the 2021 Budget

Artificial intelligence, levelling-up and R&D: the PEC’s response to the Spending Review 2020

We analyse the Spending Review and the extent our recommendations feature in today's announcement

Small engines of growth: New research finds over 700 small communities of creative businesses in cities, towns and villages across the UK

Study shows the importance of micro creative clusters as engines of local and national growth

What is the impact of COVID-19 on the creative industries?

Collecting data from the sector to help policymakers understand & respond to the ongoing crisis

Calling for a UK Centre for AI and the Creative Industries

A letter of support from the tech and creative sectors ahead of the Comprehensive Spending Review

COVID-19: Impacts on the cultural industries and the implications for policy

We're collaborating with the Centre for Cultural Value on a 15-month research project

Just 16% of people in creative jobs are from working class backgrounds and those from privileged backgrounds more likely to shape what goes on stage, page and screen

Research on class imbalances across creative sector & programme of work for a more inclusive sector

Call for papers: Creative and cultural ecologies in European urban and regional development

Applications closed on 21st September 2020.

Announcing our first commissioned research projects

Research into freelancers, place-based growth and business models in the creative industries

Introducing the next wave: from poetry to pottery and illustration to immersive tech

Expanding our network of Industry Champions

Call for research proposals

Authors: Professor Bruce Tether, Hasan Bakhshi

Applications closed on Monday 30th September 2019

How big data and machine learning can be used to generate more meaningful insights on gender inequality

Author: ​Dr Cath Sleeman

Measuring gender imbalances in reporting on the creative industries

Meet the PEC’s network of Industry Champions

Author: Hasan Bakhshi

Industry engagement is crucial to our success as a policy & evidence centre for creative industries

We are consulting on research priorities

The PEC's Policy Unit is consulting across the creative industries on research priorities

Introducing the PEC’s International Council

Authors: Hasan Bakhshi, Stephen Stenning

The PEC & the British Council collaborate on international learning for the UK’s creative industries

New research shows creativity will become even more important to the growth of jobs between now and 2030

First study from the PEC uses 35 million UK job adverts to look at creativity & the future workforce