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Research Associate at Newcastle University Business School

Head of Communications (job-share)

Head of Communications (job-share)

Head of Policy

Finance and Administration Manager

Communications & Events Officer at the Creative PEC

Policy Advisor

Research Director of Creative PEC and Chair of Macroeconomics at Newcastle University Business School

Director

Policy Engagement Manager at the Creative PEC

Executive Assistant

UK Administration & Partnerships Manager (Creative UK)

Policy Adviser

Research Associate (policy)

Head of Operations

Research Network Manager

Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries at The School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at The University of Manchester

Director of Work Advance

Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University Business School

Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Newcastle University Business School

Senior Lecturer in the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex Business School

Director of Work Advance

Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods at Sheffield Methods Institute, University of Sheffield

Senior Lecturer in Economics and Director of Post-Graduate Research at Newcastle University Business School

Research Fellow in the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex Business School

Senior Lecturer in Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Sheffield Methods Institute, University of Sheffield

UKRI Policy Fellow on Cultural Placemaking and Levelling Up with Department for Culture Media and Sport

UNESCO Chair of Global Creative Economy, and Professor of Cultural Economy, City, University of London. Andy previously established the first Department of Culture and the Creative Industries in the w…

Professor of Regional Economic Development at the City-Region Economic Development Institute (City-REDI) at the University Anne Green previously worked at the Centre for Urban and Regional Development…

Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Anthony Fung is Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong…

UNESCO Chair, Cultural Entrepreneurship and Policy, and a Research Associate (and former Head of Department) for Cultural Policy and Management at the School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand A…

Creative Director for CREATe at the University of Glasgow

Professor of Innovation Management and Strategy at the Alliance Manchester Business School

Chair of Global Creative Enterprise at the University of Edinburgh Business School

Dr, School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University Dr Cynthia Carter is Reader in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University, UK. She has published widely on children…

Distinguished Professor of Economics at Macquarie University

Cultural Statistics Expert at UNDP for Saudi Arabia, Associate Researcher at Lado B

Paul H. O'Neill Professor IU Center for Cultural Affairs, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University – Indianapolis

Lecturer and Researcher at Industrial Design Program, FSRD ITB, Indonesia Tita is a product designer, lecturer/researcher at the Faculty of Art & Design, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Focal Po…

Professor, Business School for the Creative Industries, University for the Creative Arts

Dean of Research and Impact in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Ulster University

Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the School of Advanced Study at the University of London

Professor of Media Economics at the University of Glasgow and Director of the Centre for Cultural Policy Research

Professor Emeritus, Research University of the Arts London

Head Economist for Culture and Creative Industries (CCI), DCMS

Centre for Culture and Media Policy Studies at the University of Warwick Heidi is a culture and creative ecology scholar at the Centre for Culture and Media Policy Studies at the University of Warwick…

Professor of Cultural Policy at the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s College London

Lecturer in the Business of the Creative and Cultural Industries, School of Arts and Creative Technologies at the University of York

Professor, Blockchain Innovation Hub, RMIT University Jason Potts’ work is broadly centred on the study of the creation and use of new knowledge (i.e. technological change) and its institutional…

Professor of Economics Department of Economics and Economic History Rhodes University, South Africa In addition to her role at Rhodes, Jen is a researcher at the South African Cultural Observatory (SA…

Senior Lecturer in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University

Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Associate Professor, Faculty Director, Center for Cultural Affairs, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Cultural economist who conducts research on artist labo…

Professor of Economics at Aston Business School Jun Du is Professor of Economics at Aston Business School. She is an applied economist with expertise on internationalization, innovation and productivi…

Professor of Economics Department of Economics, University of Southern Denmark Professor Karol J. Borowiecki is internationally recognized as a leading authority on the economic history of the arts. H…

Professor of Social Data Science and Deputy Director for CREATE 

Researcher and Senior Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries School of Arts Languages and Cultures – AHCP/Institute of Cultural Practices University of Manchester Researcher, lecturer and …

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…

Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Creative Economy, Cardiff University

Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Glasgow, and Director of CREATe

Associate Professor, Applied Urban Sciences, UCL

Professor, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Michael Rushton has a PhD in Economics from the University of British Columbia, and teaches and writes in the fi…

Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Entrepreneurship in the Department of Strategy and Marketing at the University of Sussex

Professor in Economic Geography at London School of Economics

Independent Researcher Dr Olivia Gable has a research background in creative industries, cultural policy, popular music, and insecure and precarious work. She currently leads research at Paul Hamlyn F…

Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Geography and Environment of the London School of Economics (LSE)

Senior Research Fellow, University of the Arts London Dr Kaszynska is Senior Research Fellow at University of the Arts London & Research Affiliate at Northeastern University London. She has a trac…

Professor/Director Future Screens NI, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Ulster University Paul Moore joined the University of Ulster in 1999. He was head of the School of Creative Arts …

Co-Founder and Director of BOP Consulting Paul Is Co-Founder and Director of BOP Consulting, an international consultancy practice for culture and the creative economy. Paul has over thirty years&#821…

Professor at the Centre for Cultural Policy Research and CREATe, Centre for Regulation of the Creative Economy (University of Glasgow)

Professor of Biobehavioral Economics, Department of Neuroscience, University of Chieti-Pescara

Chair of Regional Economic Development at Alliance Manchester Business School

Director of Economic Valuation, Public Affairs Evaluation, Ipsos Dr. Ricky Lawton is a Cultural Economist and Director of Economic Evaluation at Ipsos. Ricky specialises in economic valuation of intan…

Professor, Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries King’s College London Roberta Comunian is Professor of Creative Economies at the Department for Culture, Media and Creative Indust…

Senior Lecturer in the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex Business School

Manager, Frontier Economics Rowena is an experienced professional economist, passionate about using economics to provide high quality evidence and design effective public policies. She is currently a …

Manager of Economic Analysis, Creative Industries Sector, Department of Canadian Heritage

Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King's College London

Visiting Professor at the Department of Geography & Environment of the LSE;

Professor and Head of the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University

Professor, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Stuart Cunningham is Distinguished Emeritus Professor, Queensland University of Technology, Professor, University of Canbe…

Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney Terry Flew is Professor of Digital Communication and Culture and Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Fellow at the Unive…

Consultant and BOP Associate Tom Campbell is a consultant and BOP Associate. Until recently he was Head of Creative Industries at the Knowledge Transfer Network, the business engagement agency of Inno…

Director, TFCC Dr Tom Fleming is a global authority on cultural policy and the creative industries. His work focuses on advising governments, municipalities and institutions across the world to develo…

Assistant Professor, the Erasmus University, Rotterdam Dr. Trilce Navarrete is a specialist in the economic and historical aspects of digital heritage, with special interest in digital cultural partic…

Full Professor, PhD Department of Business Humanities and Law, Copenhagen Business School Trine received her PhD degree from the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, 1996. She is an econ…

Associate researcher, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Researcher and consultant in policy and data analysis for the cultural and creative sectors (CCS), holding a PhD in geography from the Uni…

Community Manager and board member of shesaid.so

Head of Talent at Framestore

Executive Director, Programmes and Impact, New Writing North

Associate Professor in Creativity and Literary Culture, University of Exeter

Freelance artist and Policy Officer, Centre for Cultural Value

CEO at the Goldsmiths' Company

Consultant Director at The Audience Agency

Entrepreneurial Designer and Stylist

Director, Hildrey Studio

Bid Director, Southampton City of Culture 2025

Director of Culture and Creative Industries at Manchester City Council

Novelist

Director, Fred Deakin and Company Limited

Account Manager, Clarity

Development Director, Big Change

Co-Founding Partner, We Made That

Director, Campaign for the Arts

Director of Asian Arts Agency

Head of Learning at Into Film

Director of Digital Innovation at Calvium

Design Researcher

Cultural Consultant

Managing Director at Screen Cornwall

Director at National Museums Liverpool

Philanthropy Advisor and Director at The Twentieth

Independent Consultant and Director, Theatre Green Book

Cultural Consultant and Producer

Head of Creative Programmes at DanceEast

Game Designer and Creative Producer

Founder of Sail Creative

Co-founder of Big Couch and FilmChain

Equalities Designer and Researcher

Director of Learning and Engagement at National Museum Wales

Senior Qualification Manager, Pearson

Senior Policy Officer, Greater Manchester Combined Authority, and freelance Curator, DJ and Producer

CEO and Creative Director, Scottish Music Industry Association

Founder and CEO of Sour Lemons

Independent Designer and Researcher

Director of Digital Development at Royal Shakespeare Company

Principal Lecturer in Digital Innovation, University of Westminster

CEO and Principal of Northern School of Contemporary Dance

Joint Head of Policy Lab and Visual artist

President of the Chartered College of Teaching and Senior Deputy Head, Sir William Perkins's School

Design Futures Lead at Arup

Development Producer at the Independent Film Trust and CEO of Creative Lions Productions

Entrepreneur

Founder and Managing Director at Legend Times Group

Founder of YourStudio and Special Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, UAL

Founder and CEO of Concurrency

Founder and Director of GemArts

Consultant and Executive Producer

Andrea Dempster Chung is the co-founder and executive director of Kingston Creative, an NGO that uses arts to achieve social and economic transformation.

Post Graduate Coordinator of the Cultural Policy & Management Department at the Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand

Co-founder and Band Master of ololo group, Chair of Kyrgyzstan’s Creative Industries Park Board

Cultural Statistics Expert at UNDP for Saudi Arabia, Associate Researcher at Lado B

Lecturer and Researcher at Industrial Design Program, FSRD ITB, Indonesia Tita is a product designer, lecturer/researcher at the Faculty of Art & Design, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Focal Po…

Vice-President, International Federation on Multimedia Associations

Advisor – Design, Innovation and Creative Entrepreneurship

Chair, Creative PEC’s Global Creative Economy Council John is the Mayor of London’s Ambassador for the Creative Industries and is Chair of Creative PEC’s Global Creative Economy Council Gl…

Founding Partner of Upstart Co-Lab

Senior Lecturer and Programme Director in Creative and Cultural Industries Programmes, University of Mancheste

Head of the Hyb4City department at Charles University's Hybernská Campus, Prague

Architect, Urban Planner and Co-founder of CLUSTER

Associate Professor and Director, Center for Global Cooperation and Education Development, USC-SJTU Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry

Research Associate at Newcastle University Business School

Research Officer (Screen), Creative Scotland

Professor of Regional Economic Development at City REDI at the University of Birmingham

Lecturer in Media and Communication in the School for Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University

Quantitative Research Fellow, Creative Economy & Data Analytics at Nesta

Policy Insights Manager

Research Fellow at City REDI at the University of Birmingham

Research Associate at the School for Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University

Research Fellow, City-REDI, University of Birmingham

Principal Data Scientist at Nesta

Research Fellow in Innovation and Creative Industries

Director of Innovation Mapping at Nesta

Researcher at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex

Research Fellow at City REDI, University of Birmingham

Policy Advisor at the Work Foundation

Heritage Engagement Fellow at the University of Oxford

Policy Analyst at the Work Foundation

Director of Future Screens NI (a part of AHRC's Creative Industries Clusters Programme) and a Co-Director of Ulster University's Creative Industries Institute

Data Science Fellow at Nesta

Chair of Regional Economic Development at City REDI at the University of Birmingham

Policy Analyst at the Work Foundation

Business Development Director of City REDI at the University of Birmingham

Professor of Journalism at Cardiff University

Research Fellow at City REDI at the University of Birmingham

Research Associate

Research Associate at CREATe, University of Glasgow

Research Associate in Creative Economy, University of Manchester

Lecturer in Macroeconomics at Newcastle University Business School

Postdoc research associate at CREATe