Embargoed: 11am Tuesday 8 July 2025 The creative industries are identified as a key sector for the UK’s economic growth ambitions in the Government’s – just published – Industrial Strategy.… Read More »Education and skills reforms essential for Government to achieve new Creative Industries ambitions, says new research
A State of the Nations Research Report This new report from Work Advance for Creative PEC builds upon their previous work on skills in the creative industries and is based… Read More »Creative industries employers’ perspectives on skills initiatives: 2025
Embargoed 9am (UK time) Tuesday 10 June 2025 As the dust settles on the UK government’s Immigration White Paper, the creative industries reflect on what tighter restrictions might mean. New… Read More »Highly skilled, international talent helps fuel UK creative industries growth, finds new report
A Creative PEC State of the Nations Report As the dust settles on the UK government’s Immigration White Paper, the creative industries reflect on what tighter restrictions might mean. This… Read More »Migration in UK Creative Occupations and Industries
Tuesday 10 June 2025 | 12-1pm (GMT) | Online Event
Embargoed 00.01 Wednesday 7 May 2025 A new report from the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (Creative PEC) provides fresh insight on Arts, Culture and Heritage workforce and participation… Read More »Increasing inequality in arts and culture revealed by new research
A Creative PEC State of the Nations Report With place based approaches to supporting culture are high on the political agenda, especially in England as new Strategic Authorities and local… Read More »Arts, Culture and Heritage: Recent Trends in UK Workforce and Engagement in England
A Creative PEC State of the Nations Report In this report, we consider the important role that higher education (HE) plays in supplying the talent needs of the arts and… Read More »Higher Education and the Arts and Culture Sectors
Report launch for our State of the Nations series On Wednesday 7 May 2025 we launched our new State of the Nations report, Arts, Culture and Heritage: Recent Trends in… Read More »State of the Nations Report Launch: Arts, Culture and Heritage: Recent Trends in UK Workforce and Engagement in England
Embargoed 00.01 GMT Wednesday 12 February 2025 The rapid growth of the UK’s creative industries has earned them a place in the UK government’s Industrial Strategy as a priority sector.… Read More »UK Government’s growth ambitions threatened by widening creative industries skills gap
A Creative PEC State of the Nations Report The rapid growth of the UK’s creative industries has earned them a place in the UK government’s Industrial Strategy as a priority… Read More »Skills Mismatches in the UK’s Creative Industries
Embargoed 00.01 Wednesday 20 November 2024 GMT With the UK Government’s forthcoming industrial strategy highlighting the creative industries as a key sector for both investment and growth, a new report… Read More »Invest at scale in place-based approaches to unleash potential of ‘Foreign Direct Investment’ in UK’s creative industries says new research
A Creative PEC State of the Nations Report With the UK Government’s forthcoming industrial strategy highlighting the creative industries as a key sector for both investment and growth, this new… Read More »Foreign Direct Investment in the UK’s Creative Industries
Wednesday 20 November 2024 | 12noon | Online via Zoom.
Join us for the launch of the next report in the State of the Nations series
A new report published today by the AHRC-funded Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (Creative PEC) says re-imagining growth finance could boost the creative economy and help tackle regional inequality… Read More »With the right financial support creative industries could fuel the Government’s growth mission and help tackle persistent regional inequality
Wednesday 16th October 2024 | 12noon | Online via Zoom.
Join us for the launch of our fifth report in the State of the Nations series
We’ve now published a full cycle of our new ‘State of the Nations’ series – which use the latest data to inform policymakers on ways to support the creative industries… Read More »Reflecting on a year of State of the Nations reports
New report shows ‘severe’ decline in creative further education participation Embargoed 17 July 00.01 BST A looming creative economy skills shortage is feared in a new report published today by… Read More »New research points to a looming creative economy skills shortage across the UK
Our fourth State of the Nations report looks at student participation in creative further education (FE) across all four UK nations and shows that there is a severe drop in participation.
Join us at the launch of our fourth report in the State of the Nations series
A Creative PEC State of the Nations Report Arts, culture and heritage play a vital role in the UK, enriching society and generating new ideas, while also significantly contributing to… Read More »Arts, Culture and Heritage: Audiences and Workforce
Embargoed 00.01 Wednesday 15 May 2024 (BST) For the first time, census data has been used to provide an in-depth map of the arts, culture and heritage workforce across England,… Read More »Press Release: New research, including – once in a decade data – provides comprehensive overview of audiences and workforce across arts, culture and heritage.
Join us at the launch of our third report in the State of the Nations series
A new report published today, provides fresh insight on where policy intervention could be best targeted to bolster the creative industries and help level up the UK economy. Nearly 70%… Read More »Press Release: Investing in ‘creative clusters’ is key to economic growth– and helping to level up the UK economy