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We aim to help policymakers identify the policy implications of academic research and industry insight on the creative industries.

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Policy Brief: Migration in UK Creative Occupations and Industries

Overview The UK’s creative industries are internationally oriented, a fact that’s reflected in its e…

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Policy Brief: Arts, Culture and Heritage: Recent Trends in UK Workforce and Engagement in England

Overview Five years after the Covid-19 pandemic, engagement and employment in the arts, culture and …

Policy Brief FDI in the Creative Industries

Policy Brief: Foreign Direct Investment in the UK’s Creative Industries

Read the Policy Brief based on the most recent State of the Nations Report on FDI.

Policy Brief: Insights from the Northern Creative Corridor Workshops Sprint

Policy Brief: Insights from the Northern Creative Corridor Workshops Sprint

The Northern Creative Corridor is an initiative aimed at connecting creative clusters across Norther…

Policy Brief: International Trade and the UK Creative Industries

Policy Brief: International Trade and the UK Creative Industries

This policy brief examines international trade in the UK creative industries. Drawing on our UK Trad…

Policy brief: Audiences and Workforce in Arts Culture and Heritage

Policy brief: Audiences and Workforce in Arts Culture and Heritage

This policy brief uses census data to provide, for the first time, a comprehensive analysis of audie…

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Policy Brief: Transitioning to Sustainable Production across the UK Theatre Sector

This policy brief outlines recommendations for transitioning to more sustainable theatre production …

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Authors’ Earnings in the UK

This policy briefing sets out areas for possible policy action, proposed by the researchers at CREAT…

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Television production, international trade and pressures to consolidate

The UK television production sector is one of Britain’s leading creative export sectors. This briefi…

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Three ways to support growth in the creative industries

Three ways to support growth in the creative industries The Creative Industries are an economic powe…

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Policy briefing: Creative industries innovation in seaside resorts and country towns

This policy brief is based on a PEC Discussion Paper: Creative Industries Innovation in Seaside Reso…

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Policy Briefing: R&D in the Creative Industries

The creative industries are one of the fastest growing sectors of the UK economy. One in eight UK bu…

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A global agenda from the PEC’s International Council

You can now read the report in A Global Agenda for the Cultural and Creative Industries is the …

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The birth of neo-regulation. Where next for the UK’s approach to platform regulation?

A new era of tech regulation is about to begin. However, planned legislation is leading to a tension…

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Placemaking, Culture and Covid

In September 2021, we consulted a Panel of our Industry Champions on their experiences of …

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The Creative Industries in the UK’s Export Strategy

This brief is based upon the findings of our latest research into the features and barriers facing t…

How to design a creative higher education system that supports economic needs

How to design a creative higher education system that supports economic needs

As the UK emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government is faced with important policy decision…

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Creative places: Growing the creative industries across the UK

This is in part because of the economic importance of the sector: one in eight UK businesses are par…

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Driving local growth: Lessons from the Preston Model

The ‘Preston Model’ of Community Wealth Building (CWB) is an innovative policy intervention that ens…

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Mapping the R&D landscape for creative technologies

Creative technologies (“CreaTech”) will play an increasingly big role driving innovation and g…

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The Regulation of Online Platforms: Mapping an emergent regulatory field

This policy brief is designed to accompany the Discussion Paper,The Emergence of Platform Regul…

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Freelancers in the Creative Industries

One of the defining features of the creative industries is a high reliance on freelancers wheth…

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Recovery and growth for creative freelancers: during and post-pandemic

Insights from our Industry Champions: in partnership with the Centre for Cultural Value At the end o…

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Business R&D in the arts, humanities and social sciences

What R&D in the arts, humanities & social sciences looks like in a business setting, and why…

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On-Demand Culture: How the lockdown is changing games and streaming services

Covid-19 regulations and restrictions have meant conventional forms of leisure and culture have eith…

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Beyond the early adopter: widening the appeal for virtual reality

How the cultural industries can increase the adoption of immersive technologies for mainstream audie…

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The impact of COVID-19 on diversity in the creative industries

As part of our research agenda on the industry’s response to COVID-19, we partnered with the Al…

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Understanding how our habits of cultural consumption changed during lockdown – wave 9 data

Insights from the nine-week study into consumers cultural consumption habits – data from wave …

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Beyond bailouts: three ways the upcoming Spending Review should support the creative industries

The creative industries – from film, to fashion, to creative digital – are now widely re…

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Business model disruption and innovation during COVID-19 in the creative content industries

To understand how COVID-19 continues to affect the creative industries, we have consulted our Indust…

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As lockdown eased: How our habits of cultural consumption at home are changing

The outbreak of COVID-19 and the halt on many cultural and creative activities, from live music, to …

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Graduate motivations and the economic returns of creative higher education inside and outside the creative industries

Insights for policymakers The creative industries have experienced a glorious decade punctuated by a…

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The importance of a UK-wide recovery plan for the creative industries

New research shows that following the global financial crisis in 2008 we saw an accelerated tre…

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Understanding how our habits of cultural consumption changed during lockdown – newest survey data

Insights from the nine-week study into consumers cultural consumption habits This is the latest rele…

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How policymakers can support local growth in the creative industries

As part of our research agenda around local growth, we consulted our Industry Champions on…

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How evidence should guide manifesto promises on the Creative Industries

The creative industries – from film, to fashion, to creative technology – are rightly la…

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The value of creative higher and further education

Insights from our Industry Champions As part of the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (…

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