Research economist
Mark has been working on a variety of projects relating to the creative industries, including defining the Creative Industries on behalf of the DCMS, Creative Skillset, Creative and Cultural Skills and Nesta, which applied the Dynamic Mapping methodology to the UK. He provided consultancy on the official DCMS Creative Industries statistics: working on behalf of the DCMS to consult with a variety of sector and occupational bodies on the implications of the proposed definition of the Creative Industries. He estimated the GVA of the Creative economy on behalf of Nesta and applied the Dynamic Mapping methodology to defining the Information Technology industries and economy on behalf of Nesta and techUK. He worked on a project to define the Creative and Cultural Industries in Norway on behalf of the Norwegian Government and a series of projects on journalism (Journalists at Work, 2012, 2018 and 2023) and on the developing skills that journalists will require in the future (NCTJ, Emerging Skills for Journalists, 2023), the emerging freelance journalism market (NCTJ 2016) and an ongoing examination of the diversity of the Journalism workforce, including an examination of the ‘journalism pipeline’ to identify where the issue of diversity arises. He inputted into the development of a growth plan for the Screen Industries in Yorkshire. And worked on the development and delivery of research into skills and migration issues affecting the UK’s Creative Industries, working with Nesta, on behalf of the Creative Industries Council; and an analysis of those working in Craft occupations in the UK, on behalf of the Craft Council.
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Rupert Oliver Allen
Manager of Economic Analysis, Creative Industries Sector, Department of Canadian Heritage
Simona Iammarino
Visiting Professor at the Department of Geography & Environment of the LSE;
Marlen Komorowski
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Creative Economy, Cardiff University
David Throsby
Distinguished Professor of Economics at Macquarie University
Raquel Ortega-Argiles
Chair of Regional Economic Development at Alliance Manchester Business School
Hye-Kyung Lee
Professor of Cultural Policy at the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s Col…
Jian Lin
Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Pier Luigi Sacco
Professor of Biobehavioral Economics, Department of Neuroscience, University of Chieti-Pescara
Diana Marcela Rey Vásque – Colombia-Canada
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Roberta Comunian
Professor, Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries King’s College London Roberta …
Anthony Fung
Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Antho…
Avril Joffe
UNESCO Chair, Cultural Entrepreneurship and Policy, and a Research Associate (and former Head of Dep…
Anne Green
Professor of Regional Economic Development at the City-Region Economic Development Institute (City-R…
Heidi Ashton
Centre for Culture and Media Policy Studies at the University of Warwick Heidi is a culture and crea…
Cynthia Carter
Dr, School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University Dr Cynthia Carter is Reader in the S…
Rowena Crawford
Manager, Frontier Economics Rowena is an experienced professional economist, passionate about using …
Jun Du
Professor of Economics at Aston Business School Jun Du is Professor of Economics at Aston Business S…
Olivia Gable
Independent Researcher Dr Olivia Gable has a research background in creative industries, cultural po…
Geoffrey Crossick
Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the School of Advanced Study at the University of London
Andy Pratt
UNESCO Chair of Global Creative Economy, and Professor of Cultural Economy, City, University of Lond…
Harman Sagger
Head Economist for Culture and Creative Industries (CCI), DCMS
Paul Owens
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Trilce Navarrete
Assistant Professor, the Erasmus University, Rotterdam Dr. Trilce Navarrete is a specialist in the e…
Karol J. Borowiecki
Professor of Economics Department of Economics, University of Southern Denmark Professor Karol J. Bo…
Paul Moore
Professor/Director Future Screens NI, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Ulster Univer…
Stuart Cunningham
Professor, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Stuart Cunningham is D…
Douglas Noonan
Paul H. O'Neill Professor IU Center for Cultural Affairs, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental…
Elisabetta Lazzaro
Professor, Business School for the Creative Industries, University for the Creative Arts
Patrycja Kaszynska
Senior Research Fellow, University of the Arts London Dr Kaszynska is Senior Research Fellow at Univ…
Graeme Evans
Professor Emeritus, Research University of the Arts London
Mark Spilsbury
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Ricky Lawton
Director of Economic Valuation, Public Affairs Evaluation, Ipsos Dr. Ricky Lawton is a Cultural Econ…
Terry Flew
Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney Terry Flew is Professor of …
Jen Snowball
Professor of Economics Department of Economics and Economic History Rhodes University, South Africa …
Jason Potts
Professor, Blockchain Innovation Hub, RMIT University Jason Potts’ work is broadly centred on …
Tom Fleming
Director, TFCC Dr Tom Fleming is a global authority on cultural policy and the creative industries. …
Valentina Montalto
Associate researcher, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Researcher and consultant in policy an…
Joanna Woronkowicz
Associate Professor, Faculty Director, Center for Cultural Affairs, O’Neill School of Public a…
Michael Rushton
Professor, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Michael Rush…
Leandro Valiati
Researcher and Senior Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries School of Arts Languages and Cult…
Tom Campbell
Consultant and BOP Associate Tom Campbell is a consultant and BOP Associate. Until recently he was H…
Trine Bille
Full Professor, PhD Department of Business Humanities and Law, Copenhagen Business School Trine rece…
Kristofer Erickson
Professor of Social Data Science and Deputy Director for CREATE
Patrizia Casadei
Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Geography and Environment of the London School o…
Salvatore Di Novo
Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King's College London
Hyojung Sun
Lecturer in the Business of the Creative and Cultural Industries, School of Arts and Creative Techno…
Frank Lyons
Dean of Research and Impact in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Ulster University
Martin Kretschmer
Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Glasgow, and Director of CREATe
Stuart Allan
Professor and Head of the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University
Bruce Tether
Professor of Innovation Management and Strategy at the Alliance Manchester Business School
Monica Masucci
Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Entrepreneurship in the Department of Strategy and Marketing at the …
Roberto Camerani
Senior Lecturer in the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex Business School
Bartolomeo Meletti
Creative Director for CREATe at the University of Glasgow
Jenny Kidd
Senior Lecturer in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University
Neil Lee
Professor in Economic Geography at London School of Economics
Abigail Gilmore
UKRI Policy Fellow on Cultural Placemaking and Levelling Up with Department for Culture Media and Sp…
Max Nathan
Associate Professor, Applied Urban Sciences, UCL
Gillian Doyle
Professor of Media Economics at the University of Glasgow and Director of the Centre for Cultural Po…
Candace Jones
Chair of Global Creative Enterprise at the University of Edinburgh Business School
Philip Schlesinger
Professor at the Centre for Cultural Policy Research and CREATe, Centre for Regulation of the Creati…
