Speakers of the Creative Regions Summer School 2010
The Creative Regions Summer School was based on a mix of lectures, presentations, workshops and site visits. These were delivered by both academics and practitioners. The programme, led by Caroline Chapain, Roberta Comunian and Nick Clifton was complemented by contributions from representatives of regional and national organisations. More specifically, the 2010 Summer School included case studies from Birmingham and the West Midlands as well as visits to cultural and creative facilities.
Other contributions included:
Lauren Andres taught planning theory and urban policies, urban regeneration theory and practice, project development and urban design practice, and research methodology in different departments of Planning, Geography, Architecture and Civil Engineering. She holds a PhD, funded by the French Ministry of Research, in Town and Regional Planning from the Grenoble School of Planning (France), a M Phil 2nd year in Urban Planning (Grenoble School of Planning), a MA and a BA in Geography and Planning (Department of Geography, University of Grenoble). She was awarded the prize “Fritz Schumacher” from the City of Hamburg for her research on the built environment in November 2007. Prior to undertaking her lectureship position, Lauren was a post-doc researcher in the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge and a guest lecturer in the Grenoble School of Planning. Previously, she was a lecturer at the Grenoble School of Planning (from 09-2004 to 09-2008) and a researcher in the Research Centre “UMR CNRS PACTE” (Policies, Collective Actions and Territories). Dr Andres collaborated and still collaborates with different planning departments and organizations in Europe such as (as a research associate) the Research Centre “UMR CNRS Telemme” (Time, Space, Languages in Mediterranean and southern Europe) in Aix en Provence (France), the Observatory of City and Sustainable Development of the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), the Grenoble School of Architecture, the Regional Development Agencies (“Agences d’Urbanisme”) of Grenoble and Lyon areas, the ADEF (French Real Estate Association) and ADEME (French Environment Agency). She co-organised different symposiums and seminars (“4th international symposium on territorial planning” – Grenoble – February 2008; seminars on sustainable urban development, Grenoble - 2005-2007; symposium “brownfields and urban governance” – Grenoble - February 2004) and is currently part of the scientific committee for the UK-Irish Planning Research Conference in 2011.
Dr Austin Barber is a lecturer in urban development and planning at the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Birmingham. His research interests includes planning for new inner city neighbourhoods, the evolution of city centre housing markets, development approaches in creative districts, and comparative study in these areas across European and North American cities. He is a core member of the ACRE team at the University of Birmingham and is co-investigator on the EPSRC-funded Urban Futures project investigating the planning of social sustainability in urban regeneration contexts. He is co-founder and director of the MSc Urban and Regional Planning programme at Birmingham, fully accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute. He teaches across postgraduate and undergraduate programmes at CURS, and leads the development of innovative practical project opportunities for students in conjunction with planning and property professionals in the city. Outside of the university Austin is a board member of the Moseley Community Development Trust in south Birmingham, with a remit focusing on planning and regeneration issues. In this role, he is heavily involved in the creation of a community-led new official plan for the neighbourhood, a process that is the first of its kind in Birmingham.
Dr Radhika Desai is Professor of Political Studies, University of Manitoba, Canada. She has written extensively on cultural theory and cultural politics http://umanitoba.academia.edu/RadhikaDesai She is co-author, with Alan Freeman and Hasan Bakhshi, of Not Rocket Science: A Roadmap for Arts and Cultural R&D.
Alan Freeman is the GLA's cultural economist. Reports he has authored for the GLA or the LDA include Creativity: London's Core Business and London: A Cultural Audit. With Hasan Bakhshi and Graham Hitchen he co-authored Measuring Intrinsic Value: How to Stop Worrying and Love Economics, and with Hasan Bakhshi and Radhika Desai he authored Not Rocket Science: a Roadmap for Cultural R&D. He is currently working on a long think piece on the economic definition of creativity, a draft of which can be found on his open-access web page at http://ideas.repec.org/e/pfr102.html
Dr John Gibney is a Senior Research Fellow in the Economic Development Research Group in CURS. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists (FCIL), a member of the Regional Studies Association (MeRSA) and the University Association of Contemporary European Studies. John moved to CURS following an influential career in local and regional government including working on city centre regeneration, the Channel Tunnel ‘Transmanche’ programmes and as the founding Director of the Wales European Centre in Brussels. He is the Principal Investigator (PI) guiding the CURS research team on the 2006-2010 EU FP6 ACRE research programme on creative cities in Europe. Most recently, John has led important initiatives which have developed a distinctive contribution from Birmingham in debates about leadership and place making/shaping. He has coordinated an interdisciplinary R&D programme around the knowledge-based economy, place-shaping and leadership for the national Academy for Sustainable Communities (Now the Homes and Communities Agency Academy in England). He has also led the Birmingham team working on a 2008/2009 research project for the national Centre for Excellence in Leadership and the national Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) on “The ‘New’ Place Shaping: The Implications for Leaders in the Further Education Sector”. He is currently writing and researching around the theme of ‘Urban Leadership’.
Ian Grosvenor is Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Cultural Engagement and Professor of Urban Educational History, University of Birmingham, UK. He is author of numerous articles and books on racism, education and identity, the visual in educational research, the material culture of education and the history of urban education. Current research focuses on new ways of conceptualising and presenting the educational past through consideration of issues relating to space, design, technology, the visual in education, artefacts and identity formation.
Dan Licari is a Digital Media Consultant working for Advantage West Midlands, the Regional Development Agency for the Heart of England. His role is to grow the digital media industry in the region. Prior to that, he managed a number of regional projects including; Interactive Digital Media, the International Serious Games Event, Stratford Unplugged, Technology for the Growing Business and the Regional E-business Development Initiative. Dan has over 15 years international experience, predominately in the B2B space having worked for a public affairs agency in Seattle, the largest bank in the world in their London HQ, four UK universities, a credit card company, two management consultancy practices and three regional economic development organisations.
Juan Mateos-Garcia is a Creative Industries Research Fellow at NESTA. He is also a Visiting Fellow at CENTRIM, in the University of Brighton. Prior to this, he worked as a researcher on Information and Communication Technology Economics and the Organisation of Software and Video Game Development at SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research). Juan has a background in economics, and an MSc (with distinction) in Science and Technology Policy from SPRU.
Andy Munro has been involved in regeneration since the days of the Urban Programme in the mid 70s. His interest was really triggered through working on Handsworth Task Force immediately following the riots. He has also been involved in City Challenge, SRB, and other Government initiatives and has been working in the Jewellery Quarter for almost 10 years, as Operations Director for the area's Regeneration Partnership. Born and bred in B'ham's Balti Triangle area, he also has a keen interest in that area, having written the Essential Street Balti guide and acted as advisor to the Asian Balti Restaurant Association. Married with a son and daughter, he now lives in Hollywood.
Lara Ratnaraja is Sector Development Director, Creative Cultural and Digital sector Business Link West Midlands. As the creative and cultural lead for the region, her role is to engage with the region’s creative industries sector, delivering business support programmes and initiatives across the creative industries spectrum and ensuring business support provision helps to continue to catalyse the growth of the sector. She works with key partners Screen West Midlands, Arts Council England WM, AWM Digital Media Cluster, Renaissance WM, 4IP and the region’s HEIs to ensure a joined up approach across industry, skills and business support for the sector. Having represented Business Link WM in the development of its sector provision for the last six years, she has been able to work with on the development of an industry in the region, and working with partners both regionally and nationally means we are now able to deliver a more seamless and integrated support model and build on this work to the benefit of the sector and the wider region. The reputation of the West Midlands as a hot bed for creative industries is evidence of this collaborative work with the industry and business support services, enabling the region to bid for the City of Culture in 2013.
Wendy Scott is Employer Services Manager with the National Apprenticeship Service and was part of the interim team completing test bed work on the on line Apprenticeship Vacancy Matching Service whilst still with the Learning & Skills Council (LSC). Previous work with the organisation as a sector expert related to entry to employment and training solutions for a number of large construction projects including Bullring, sector lead for Olympics and volunteer skills requirements and a number of other high profile projects. Past employment includes working for a training provider in hospitality following a number of years working as a Manager/ trainer for a large international Hospitality and Leisure Retail organisation. Eight years as a campaign manager for an environmental campaign which was brought to a successful closure. She also worked in Theatre and ran her own company for 12 years on leaving school which she set up rather than go to University
Prof. Peter Sunley has a track record of research in various dimensions of regional and local economic development. He has a long standing research interest in the spatial variations in labour and labour markets, and how these are shaped by policy and other institutions. His research has included an ESRC-funded study into the local geographies of the New Deal for Young People. More recently he has published on local economic clusters and the regional supply of venture capital in the UK and Germany. Together with Steven Pinch, he recently completed an ESRC-project that looked in detail at agglomerations of design businesses in different cities in the UK and how location influences learning in these firms.
Paul Warmington is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Birmingham and is also the School’s Director of Studies (Research Degrees). He has worked in post-compulsory education for the past twenty years, firstly in FE in Birmingham then in higher education (Universities of Nottingham and Birmingham). Paul has written, taught and researched extensively on race, ethnicity & class, widening participation in post-compulsory education, informal work-related learning and the emergent field of cultural learning.
Other contributions included:
Lauren Andres taught planning theory and urban policies, urban regeneration theory and practice, project development and urban design practice, and research methodology in different departments of Planning, Geography, Architecture and Civil Engineering. She holds a PhD, funded by the French Ministry of Research, in Town and Regional Planning from the Grenoble School of Planning (France), a M Phil 2nd year in Urban Planning (Grenoble School of Planning), a MA and a BA in Geography and Planning (Department of Geography, University of Grenoble). She was awarded the prize “Fritz Schumacher” from the City of Hamburg for her research on the built environment in November 2007. Prior to undertaking her lectureship position, Lauren was a post-doc researcher in the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge and a guest lecturer in the Grenoble School of Planning. Previously, she was a lecturer at the Grenoble School of Planning (from 09-2004 to 09-2008) and a researcher in the Research Centre “UMR CNRS PACTE” (Policies, Collective Actions and Territories). Dr Andres collaborated and still collaborates with different planning departments and organizations in Europe such as (as a research associate) the Research Centre “UMR CNRS Telemme” (Time, Space, Languages in Mediterranean and southern Europe) in Aix en Provence (France), the Observatory of City and Sustainable Development of the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), the Grenoble School of Architecture, the Regional Development Agencies (“Agences d’Urbanisme”) of Grenoble and Lyon areas, the ADEF (French Real Estate Association) and ADEME (French Environment Agency). She co-organised different symposiums and seminars (“4th international symposium on territorial planning” – Grenoble – February 2008; seminars on sustainable urban development, Grenoble - 2005-2007; symposium “brownfields and urban governance” – Grenoble - February 2004) and is currently part of the scientific committee for the UK-Irish Planning Research Conference in 2011.
Dr Austin Barber is a lecturer in urban development and planning at the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Birmingham. His research interests includes planning for new inner city neighbourhoods, the evolution of city centre housing markets, development approaches in creative districts, and comparative study in these areas across European and North American cities. He is a core member of the ACRE team at the University of Birmingham and is co-investigator on the EPSRC-funded Urban Futures project investigating the planning of social sustainability in urban regeneration contexts. He is co-founder and director of the MSc Urban and Regional Planning programme at Birmingham, fully accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute. He teaches across postgraduate and undergraduate programmes at CURS, and leads the development of innovative practical project opportunities for students in conjunction with planning and property professionals in the city. Outside of the university Austin is a board member of the Moseley Community Development Trust in south Birmingham, with a remit focusing on planning and regeneration issues. In this role, he is heavily involved in the creation of a community-led new official plan for the neighbourhood, a process that is the first of its kind in Birmingham.
Dr Radhika Desai is Professor of Political Studies, University of Manitoba, Canada. She has written extensively on cultural theory and cultural politics http://umanitoba.academia.edu/RadhikaDesai She is co-author, with Alan Freeman and Hasan Bakhshi, of Not Rocket Science: A Roadmap for Arts and Cultural R&D.
Alan Freeman is the GLA's cultural economist. Reports he has authored for the GLA or the LDA include Creativity: London's Core Business and London: A Cultural Audit. With Hasan Bakhshi and Graham Hitchen he co-authored Measuring Intrinsic Value: How to Stop Worrying and Love Economics, and with Hasan Bakhshi and Radhika Desai he authored Not Rocket Science: a Roadmap for Cultural R&D. He is currently working on a long think piece on the economic definition of creativity, a draft of which can be found on his open-access web page at http://ideas.repec.org/e/pfr102.html
Dr John Gibney is a Senior Research Fellow in the Economic Development Research Group in CURS. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists (FCIL), a member of the Regional Studies Association (MeRSA) and the University Association of Contemporary European Studies. John moved to CURS following an influential career in local and regional government including working on city centre regeneration, the Channel Tunnel ‘Transmanche’ programmes and as the founding Director of the Wales European Centre in Brussels. He is the Principal Investigator (PI) guiding the CURS research team on the 2006-2010 EU FP6 ACRE research programme on creative cities in Europe. Most recently, John has led important initiatives which have developed a distinctive contribution from Birmingham in debates about leadership and place making/shaping. He has coordinated an interdisciplinary R&D programme around the knowledge-based economy, place-shaping and leadership for the national Academy for Sustainable Communities (Now the Homes and Communities Agency Academy in England). He has also led the Birmingham team working on a 2008/2009 research project for the national Centre for Excellence in Leadership and the national Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) on “The ‘New’ Place Shaping: The Implications for Leaders in the Further Education Sector”. He is currently writing and researching around the theme of ‘Urban Leadership’.
Ian Grosvenor is Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Cultural Engagement and Professor of Urban Educational History, University of Birmingham, UK. He is author of numerous articles and books on racism, education and identity, the visual in educational research, the material culture of education and the history of urban education. Current research focuses on new ways of conceptualising and presenting the educational past through consideration of issues relating to space, design, technology, the visual in education, artefacts and identity formation.
Dan Licari is a Digital Media Consultant working for Advantage West Midlands, the Regional Development Agency for the Heart of England. His role is to grow the digital media industry in the region. Prior to that, he managed a number of regional projects including; Interactive Digital Media, the International Serious Games Event, Stratford Unplugged, Technology for the Growing Business and the Regional E-business Development Initiative. Dan has over 15 years international experience, predominately in the B2B space having worked for a public affairs agency in Seattle, the largest bank in the world in their London HQ, four UK universities, a credit card company, two management consultancy practices and three regional economic development organisations.
Juan Mateos-Garcia is a Creative Industries Research Fellow at NESTA. He is also a Visiting Fellow at CENTRIM, in the University of Brighton. Prior to this, he worked as a researcher on Information and Communication Technology Economics and the Organisation of Software and Video Game Development at SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research). Juan has a background in economics, and an MSc (with distinction) in Science and Technology Policy from SPRU.
Andy Munro has been involved in regeneration since the days of the Urban Programme in the mid 70s. His interest was really triggered through working on Handsworth Task Force immediately following the riots. He has also been involved in City Challenge, SRB, and other Government initiatives and has been working in the Jewellery Quarter for almost 10 years, as Operations Director for the area's Regeneration Partnership. Born and bred in B'ham's Balti Triangle area, he also has a keen interest in that area, having written the Essential Street Balti guide and acted as advisor to the Asian Balti Restaurant Association. Married with a son and daughter, he now lives in Hollywood.
Lara Ratnaraja is Sector Development Director, Creative Cultural and Digital sector Business Link West Midlands. As the creative and cultural lead for the region, her role is to engage with the region’s creative industries sector, delivering business support programmes and initiatives across the creative industries spectrum and ensuring business support provision helps to continue to catalyse the growth of the sector. She works with key partners Screen West Midlands, Arts Council England WM, AWM Digital Media Cluster, Renaissance WM, 4IP and the region’s HEIs to ensure a joined up approach across industry, skills and business support for the sector. Having represented Business Link WM in the development of its sector provision for the last six years, she has been able to work with on the development of an industry in the region, and working with partners both regionally and nationally means we are now able to deliver a more seamless and integrated support model and build on this work to the benefit of the sector and the wider region. The reputation of the West Midlands as a hot bed for creative industries is evidence of this collaborative work with the industry and business support services, enabling the region to bid for the City of Culture in 2013.
Wendy Scott is Employer Services Manager with the National Apprenticeship Service and was part of the interim team completing test bed work on the on line Apprenticeship Vacancy Matching Service whilst still with the Learning & Skills Council (LSC). Previous work with the organisation as a sector expert related to entry to employment and training solutions for a number of large construction projects including Bullring, sector lead for Olympics and volunteer skills requirements and a number of other high profile projects. Past employment includes working for a training provider in hospitality following a number of years working as a Manager/ trainer for a large international Hospitality and Leisure Retail organisation. Eight years as a campaign manager for an environmental campaign which was brought to a successful closure. She also worked in Theatre and ran her own company for 12 years on leaving school which she set up rather than go to University
Prof. Peter Sunley has a track record of research in various dimensions of regional and local economic development. He has a long standing research interest in the spatial variations in labour and labour markets, and how these are shaped by policy and other institutions. His research has included an ESRC-funded study into the local geographies of the New Deal for Young People. More recently he has published on local economic clusters and the regional supply of venture capital in the UK and Germany. Together with Steven Pinch, he recently completed an ESRC-project that looked in detail at agglomerations of design businesses in different cities in the UK and how location influences learning in these firms.
Paul Warmington is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Birmingham and is also the School’s Director of Studies (Research Degrees). He has worked in post-compulsory education for the past twenty years, firstly in FE in Birmingham then in higher education (Universities of Nottingham and Birmingham). Paul has written, taught and researched extensively on race, ethnicity & class, widening participation in post-compulsory education, informal work-related learning and the emergent field of cultural learning.
