Category: Freelancers
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Whose bailout is it anyway? Saving the Arts may not save Culture
The recent announcement by the government that they are giving a £1.57bn ‘bailout’ to the UK’s arts and cultural sector has been hugely welcoming. As far as traditionally culture-shy and fiscally prudent Conservative governments go, it is a huge amount; it is almost three times the annual budget of Arts…
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CFP: Spatialities of Digital and Creative Work, RGS-IBG 2012
Call for papers: RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2012 2-5th July, University of Edinburgh Session convenors: Rachel Granger, Coventry University, UK Oli Mould, University of Salford, UK SPATIALITIES OF DIGITAL AND CREATIVE WORK While research on the growing and highly influential digital and creative industries has been well-represented in recent years, this…
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Creative Exchange(s)
Having just given a keynote talk at the Creative Exchange (slides above, or if you’re browser isn’t letting you see them, click here), it has been a genuinely invigorating experience to talk to and get feedback from creative industry businesses, entrepreneurs and freelance workers. The talks and Q&A sessions all had…
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Andy Duncan puts Creative Industries back on the Map
The creative industries seem to have reached somewhat of a plateau in recent years in terms of their progression as a concept or vehicle for improving our economic competencies. I don’t mean in terms of actual economic performance, indeed David Harte recently blogged about how the creative industries may be…
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Pitching up: Freelancers in the Creative Industries
There remain very few industrial sectors in which freelancers do not operate, yet they remain peculiarly absent from the mainstream academic literature (when it does, it exists sporadically). Focusing on, and researching these freelancers holds particular relevance to the creative industries, as much of the work undertaken is project-based, with…
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