There's been lots of talk about 'co-creation' in the arts, and here's a piece of work which - I think - is the first to properly define what this practice actually means.

naomi-alexander.com/lets-create-do…

🥁 Publication alert: My article on data-driven screen production is now live in New Media & Society. It’s called “Friction in the Netflix machine: How screen workers interact with streaming data” – I hope you want to take a look!

Available #openaccess : doi.org/10.1177/146144…

In this profound & practical Clore Leadership paper, GARTH GRATRIX considers how queerness & the coastline can help build a pace-conscious arts & cultural sector & leadership capable of generating new creative & collaborative possibilities & perspectives:
cloreleadership.org/provocation_pa…

This is an interesting exercise by Hampshire County Council, which needs to address its £132 million shortfall. It has asked thousands of its residents what services it should reduce:

Please join us online to celebrate another successful run of WBB that’s had a positive impact on so many South Asian writers across the world!
Everyone welcome!

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Our SIAH summer newsletter is now live! Read all about our wide range of events in May and June which reflect the collaborative and interdisciplinary work found in Arts and Humanities 📅

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I'll be speaking about cultural funding Edinburgh Literary Salon this evening alongside Filmhouse Edinburgh James - giving a sneak peak at some of the findings from 'Funding Communities Better' by Tiki Muir and myself, being published by Out of the Blueprint in June. 🎟 eventbrite.co.uk/e/aprils-arts-…

Come and discuss politics, feeling, Brexit, Covid-19, and Mass Observation with me, Kirsty Pattrick, Jonathan Moss, Emily Robinson, Ben Jones, and Stephen Coleman

Mass Observation

eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politics…

🇩🇰'Når musikken taler' with @SallySharp: 15 months, 1865 survey respondents, 17 interviews, 4 field trips meeting 20+ stakeholders, 4 reports, 56,379 words, and last week presenting 3 headline findings in Copenhagen! What a journey!

Full project here: partnershipforsustainablemusic.com/mental-health-…

Just out - new article co-written with Kate Oakley on culture, austerity and the new municipalism - available Open Access Cultural Trends Journal tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

2 x Lecturer in Digital Media with research interest in Artificial Intelligence University of Southampton Film at Southampton We are particularly keen on applicants with additional interest in media industries and digital labour for our Film, TV, Digital Media UG programme
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I contributed to the Misogyny In Music report – it’s sadly unsurprising that its recommendations have been rejected theconversation.com/i-contributed-… via The Conversation

Our next KIN meeting in June will focus on how universities can better support citizen research and empower it, and understanding and rewarding the arts and cultural sector's contribution to new knowledge creation and research impact.

Register: eventbrite.co.uk/e/kin-supporti…

Today, we've launched the Creative UK Manifesto, delineating why radical, new action is needed across the Cultural and #CreativeIndustries .

Be part of the change. Support our Manifesto & sign Land of Hope and Story's open letter now: manifesto.wearecreative.uk

#OurCreativeFuture

Join us this Friday for the first in a new series of
The Alan Turing Institute AI & Arts Group webinars. We'll be discussing Speculative and critical design practices for engaging with AI with Dave Murray-Rust from
TU Delft
📅 April 26 | 13:00 BST
🔗More info 👉bit.ly/49EaXy9

This Wednesday Liz Gre and Julia Vogl will be in conversation at our next Material Interests event: EMPTYNESS NOT NOTHINGNESS: co-creating with community.

🔗Register to join us in person or online 👉 bit.ly/4aMQiJb

What role can arts and culture play in placemaking?

Don’t have time to read all 126 studies investigating this theme? Not to worry. Researchers Dr John Wright, Ava Podgorski & Kyla Tully have drawn out the key findings👀

Read our new research digest 👇: culturehive.co.uk/CVIresources/r…

This is quite the read- a new academic framework to characterise the descent of Britain’s national policy style to the “omnishambolic” - frenetic, impositional & idiosyncratic.

A good, if slightly sobering, piece Patrick Diamond LSE Impact Blog blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpol…

Insight Paper: how can #cultural #strategies support local cultural decision making?

Takeaways from a #Knowledge #Exchange session held as part of an open #policy development prog ‘the future of local cultural decision making’

#futurelocalculture

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I wrote a thing on Watershed, how we updated 'The art of the turnaround' to address our own deficit, and the five principles we developed for thinking about profitability artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/artic…