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Research Fellows Network
Meet our Research Fellows Network. They are leading experts from diverse backgrounds, areas of specialism and parts of the globe. They facilitate knowledge exchange at Creative PEC through seminars, blogs and discussion papers and smaller thematic research networks.
Abigail Gilmore
UKRI Policy Fellow on Cultural Placemaking and Levelling Up with Department for Culture Media and Sp…
Adala Leeson
Head of Social and Economic Research, Historic England
Alexander Cuntz
Head of Creative Economy Section, World Intellectual Property Organization, United Nations
Alice Demattos Guimarães
Postdoctoral Researcher at Copenhagen Business School
Allègre Hadida
Associate Professor of Strategy at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School (CJBS)
Ana Flávia Machado
Professor of Economics at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Andy Pratt
UNESCO Chair of Global Creative Economy, and Professor of Cultural Economy, City, University of Lond…
Annalisa Cicerchia
Adjunct Professor at Roma Tre and Tor Vergata universities
Anne Green
Professor of Regional Economic Development at the City-Region Economic Development Institute (City-R…
Anne-Britt Gran
Professor at BI Norwegian Business School and the co-director of BI Centre for Creative Industries
Anthony Fung
Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Audrey Wong
Programme Leader, MA Arts and Cultural Leadership programme at LASALLE College of the Arts, Universi…
Avril Joffe – South Africa
UNESCO Chair in Cultural Entrepreneurship and Policy, and Research Associate, University of the Witw…
Bartolomeo Meletti
Creative Director for CREATe at the University of Glasgow
Bruce Tether
Professor of Innovation Management and Strategy at the Alliance Manchester Business School
Candace Jones
Chair of Global Creative Enterprise at the University of Edinburgh Business School
Chris Bilton
Professor of Creative Industries, Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies, University of Warwic…
Cynthia Carter
Reader in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University, UK
David Throsby
Distinguished Professor of Economics at Macquarie University
Dennis Collopy
Research Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire
Diana Marcela Rey Vásque – Colombia-Canada
Cultural Statistics Expert at UNDP for Saudi Arabia, Associate Researcher at Lado B
Dimiter Gantchev
Creative Industries Director, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Douglas Noonan
Paul H. O'Neill Professor IU Center for Cultural Affairs, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental…
Dwinita Larasati
Lecturer and Researcher at Industrial Design Program, FSRD ITB, Indonesia
Elisabetta Lazzaro
Professor, Business School for the Creative Industries, University for the Creative Arts
Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
Professor of Public Policy at the Price School, University of Southern California
Enrico Bertacchini
Associate Professor of Public Economics at the Department of Economics and Statistics “Cognett…
Enrique Avogadro
Founder & Director, Pulmón Creativo
Frank Lyons
Dean of Research and Impact in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Ulster University
Geoffrey Crossick
Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the School of Advanced Study at the University of London
George Musgrave
Senior Lecturer in Cultural Sociology at the School of Creative Management, Goldsmiths, University o…
Gillian Doyle
Professor of Media Economics at the University of Glasgow and Director of the Centre for Cultural Po…
Graeme Evans
Professor Emeritus, Research University of the Arts London
Harman Sagger
Head Economist for Culture and Creative Industries (CCI), DCMS
Heidi Ashton
Centre for Culture and Media Policy Studies at the University of Warwick
Hye-Kyung Lee
Professor of Cultural Policy at the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s Col…
Hyojung Sun
Lecturer in the Business of the Creative and Cultural Industries, School of Arts and Creative Techno…
James Davies
Research Fellow for Skills and Innovation for the Media Cymru project at the University of South Wal…
Jason Potts
Professor, Blockchain Innovation Hub, RMIT University
Jen Ballie
Head of Design Research at V&A Dundee and a Reader in Design at DJCAD, University of Dundee
Jen Snowball
Professor of Economics Department of Economics and Economic History Rhodes University, South Africa …
Jenny Kidd
Senior Lecturer in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University
Jian Lin
Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Joanna Woronkowicz
Associate Professor, Faculty Director, Center for Cultural Affairs, O’Neill School of Public a…
Jordi McKenzie
Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Macquarie University
Jun Du
Professor of Economics at Aston Business School
Karol J. Borowiecki
Professor of Economics Department of Economics, University of Southern Denmark
Kristofer Erickson
Professor of Social Data Science and Deputy Director for CREATE
Leandro Valiati
Researcher and Senior Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries School of Arts Languages and Cult…
Luis César Herrero Prieto
Full Professor in Applied Economics at the University of Valladolid
Mafalda Dâmaso
Part-time Professor at the European University Institute
Marc Law
Professor of Economics at the University of Vermont
Marcos Valdivia
Full-time researcher at the Regional Center for Multidisciplinary Research of the National Autonomou…
Marion McCutcheon
Senior Research Fellow, News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra
Mark Spilsbury
Research Economist
Marlen Komorowski
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Creative Economy, Cardiff University
Martha Bloom
Economist and Policy Analyst, Culture, Creative Industries and Global Events Unit, OECD
Martin Kretschmer
Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Glasgow, and Director of CREATe
Martina Dattilo
Junior Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Turin
Massimiliano Nuccio
Associate Professor of Business Economics and Management at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Max Nathan
Associate Professor, Applied Urban Sciences, UCL
Michael Rushton
Professor, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
Monica Masucci
Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Entrepreneurship in the Department of Strategy and Marketing at the …
Natalia Grincheva
Associate Professor at the School of Creative Industries, LASALLE College of the Arts, University of…
Neil Lee
Professor in Economic Geography at London School of Economics
Olivia Gable
Independent Researcher
Orian Brook
Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Edinburgh
Patrizia Casadei
Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Geography and Environment of the London School o…
Patrycja Kaszynska
Senior Research Fellow, University of the Arts London
Paul Crosby
Senior Lecturer in Economics at Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University
Paul Moore
Professor/Director Future Screens NI, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Ulster Univer…
Paul Owens
Co-Founder and Director of BOP Consulting
Philip Schlesinger
Professor at the Centre for Cultural Policy Research and CREATe, Centre for Regulation of the Creati…
Pier Luigi Sacco
Professor of Biobehavioral Economics, Department of Neuroscience, University of Chieti-Pescara
Rafael Boix-Domènech
Professor at the Department of Economic Structure of the University of Valencia
Raquel Ortega-Argiles
Chair of Regional Economic Development at Alliance Manchester Business School
Rebecca Madgin
Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow and Programme Director for the Arts and Huma…
Richard Naylor
Director, Research at BOP Consulting
Ricky Lawton
Director of Economic Valuation, Public Affairs Evaluation, Ipsos
Rita Nana-Cheraa
Research Fellow at the Enterprise Research Centre, Warwick Business School
Roberta Comunian
Professor, Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries King’s College London
Roberto Camerani
Senior Lecturer in the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex Business School
Rodrigo Michel
Data Scientist at Senac National Department (Brazil)
Rowena Crawford
Manager, Frontier Economics
Ruoxi Wang
SNAAP Research Fellow and Visiting Researcher at the University of Sheffield
Rupert Oliver Allen
Manager of Economic Analysis, Creative Industries Sector, Department of Canadian Heritage
Salvatore Di Novo
Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King's College London
Scott Brook
Associate Professor, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University
Simona Iammarino
Visiting Professor at the Department of Geography & Environment of the LSE;
Steven Hadley
Cultural Policy Scholar, School of Creative Industries and Culture, De Montfort University
Stuart Allan
Professor and Head of the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University
Stuart Cunningham
Professor, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
Tamsyn Dent
Senior Lecturer in Creative Labour and Cultural Work, Department for Culture, Media and Creative Ind…
Terry Flew
Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney
Tom Campbell
Consultant and BOP Associate
Tom Fleming
Director, TFCC
Trilce Navarrete
Assistant Professor, the Erasmus University, Rotterdam
Trine Bille
Full Professor, PhD Department of Business Humanities and Law, Copenhagen Business School
Valentina Montalto
Associate researcher, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Researcher and consultant in policy an…


































































































