Creative Regions Summer School

You can download here the Creative Regions Summer School 2011 preliminary programme. You can read below the profile of speakers and experts involved. 

Amanda Brandellero is postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department of Media and Communication at Erasmus University. She is working on an international research project on Popular Music Heritage, Cultural Memory and Cultural Identity (POPID) funded by HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area). Prior to joining EUR, Amanda was PhD researcher at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, at the University of Amsterdam. Her research interests lie in the fields of economic geography, cultural industries and cities, and the local and global dynamics of production and consumption within the music industry. Her research received the support of the City of Paris and the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. In 2007, Amanda received the Cultural Policy Research Award, a European grant sponsored by the European Cultural Foundation and the Swedish Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, for her work on diversity in the cultural industries.

John Brazier was educated at the University of Durham and has worked in culture for more than thirty years.  He has managed a wide range of visual and performing art forms in both the private sector and the public sector.   John has extensive experience of cultural policy-making and service delivery at both regional and national government level.  Since 2008 he has been Academic Project Manager of the Tonic Creative Business Project at the University for the Creative Arts in Rochester.  The project is designed to teach degree-level creative and business skills to people working in the creative industries.

Dr. Caroline Chapain has been a Research Fellow from the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of Birmingham since 2005. Previously, she studied and worked in Canada. From 2002 to 2005, she worked as a research advisor on public finance, economic development, and cultural issues for the Montreal Metropolitan Planning Organization in Canada. Since 2005, she has been looking at the way creative industries emerge, operate and develop at the local and regional levels in UK. She is part of ACRE, a FP6 project which aims to assess the impact of the emerging ‘creative class’ and the rise of the ‘creative industries’ on the competitiveness of EU metropolitan regions. She is currently co-editing a special issue of Built Environment on Cultural, Creative and Knowledge cities. Further information

Dr Nick Clifton joined CLEC (Creative Leadership and Enterprise Centre) at Cardiff School of Management, UWIC in 2009. Prior to this he was Senior Research Associate  at Cardiff University. Nick’s main research interests lie in the fields of regional economics (with particular reference to Wales), innovation and creativity, small business and entrepreneurship, networks and business strategy.  He has published a number of working papers, articles and conference papers on these subjects.  He has recently been working on Technology, Talent and Tolerance in European Cities: a comparative analysis. Funded by: Economic & Social Research Council, UK. This project is designed to examine important aspects of the locational preferences of knowledge-based industries, through the role human capital, creative capital and diversity plays in technology-based development within the UK compared to European cities. Further information

Dr. Roberta Comunian is Creative Industries Research Associate at the School of Arts, University of Kent. Prior to this, she was lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Southampton. She holds a European Doctorate title in Network Economy and Knowledge Management. She is interested in: relationship between public and private investments in the arts, art and cultural regeneration projects, cultural and creative industries, creativity and competitiveness. She has been visiting researcher at University of Newcastle investigating the relationship between creative industries, cultural policy and public supported art institutions. She has recently undertaken research on knowledge transfer and creative industries within an AHRC Impact Fellowship award at the University of Leeds. Further information.

Radhika Desai is Professor at the Department of Political Studies, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. She is the author of Slouching Towards Ayodhya: From Congress to Hindutva in Indian Politics (2nd rev ed, 2004) and Intellectuals and Socialism: 'Social Democrats' and the Labour Party (1994), a New Statesman and Society Book of the Month, and editor of Developmental and Cultural Nationalisms (2009). She is also the author of of numerous articles in Economic and Political Weekly, New Left Review, Third World Quarterly and other journals and in edited collections on parties, political economy, culture and nationalism. He is co‐author, with Hasan Bakhshi and Alan Freeman of 'Not Rocket Science: a Roadmap for Arts and Cultural R&D', available on www.missionmoneymodels.org

Karen joined Turner Contemporary as Audience Development Officer in 2001, prior to which she was Public Programmes Officer at the Hayward Gallery. Previous positions have included Education Officer at Chisenhale Gallery, Camden Arts Centre and Education Assistant at Whitechapel Art Gallery. She has also worked as a freelance educator for organisations including Nottingham City Museums, Whitechapel Gallery, Art Angel, the Estorick Collection and Camden Arts Centre. As a freelance Project Manager at The Hayward Gallery she developed and delivered an innovative programme for Looked After Children with the Department of Health. She was a representative for engage London (National Association of Gallery Education) between 1998 and 2000.  She also worked as an artist and has exhibited widely, including in The Institute of Cultural Anxiety, ICA, London (1994); Trust, Tramway (1995); Speed, McDonald Stewart Art Centre, Toronto and Netherlands Design Institute, Amsterdam (1997). Now Head of Learning at Turner Contemporary, Karen worked closely with the Director and other colleagues to contribute to the design brief for the new building, designed by David Chipperfield Architects. She has developed strategies for both informal and formal learning in the new gallery. Projects have included the national award winning Time Of Our Lives, which enabled 13 to 25 year olds and people aged over 60 to work together to explore what it means to be a teenager, both now and in the past; Cultural Ambassadors, a partnership project with UCA encouraging local people to get involved in the cultural regeneration of their area and Tate Movie, enabling local primary school children to contribute to a film developed with Aardman Animation and Falon Advertising Agency, which will be screened at the opening ceremony of the Olympics in 2012.

Alan Freeman has worked as economist for GLA Economics, the Mayor of London's Economic Analysis Unit. He is now honorary fellow in creative policy at the School of Arts, University of Kent. At the GLA he held lead responsibility for the Living Wage, Innovation, Cultural and Creative Industries and benchmarking World Cities. At the GLA, he authored ‘Creativity: London’s Core Business’, produces regular updates on the statistics of London’s Creative Industries, and was lead author for ‘London: A Cultural Audit’. He is co‐author, with Hasan Bakhshi and Graham Hitchen, of ‘Measuring Intrinsic Value’ and 'Not Rocket Science: a Roadmap for Arts and Cultural R&D', both available on www.missionmoneymodels.org.  He is the author of 'The Benn Heresy' and has co‐edited four books of which his most recent is 'The Politics of Empire and the Crisis of Globalisation', a collection of critical reflections on the state of the world economy, with Boris Kagarlitsky.

Charles Freeman is Quality Place Delivery Manager for Partnership for Urban South Hampshire (PUSH). PUSH is a grouping of 11 Local Authorities is the Southampton and Portsmouth functional economic area. The Partnership was formed in 2003, in order to support the economic development of the area. Charles supports the work of the PUSH Quality Place Delivery Pannel. The Pannels priorities include, Supporting work to enhance the regions cultural offer, promoting access and participation, the integration of cultural planning within spatial planning policy in the area, Supporting the development of the Creative Industries and Visitor Economy and Promoting Good Quality Design in the Built Environment. Prior to Joining PUSH Charles was Executive Director of Culture South East one of the 8 Regional Cultural Consortiums in England responsible for Embeding cultural policy in regional policy, supporting the Local Government Cultural improvement agenda, Embedding Cultural policy in the planning of Sustainable Community Growth Ares and Housing Renewal Pathfinders, Developing Regional Evidence bases to support cultural policy, and supporting the regional elements of the cultural olympiad.

Rachel is a principal lecturer in urban and economic geography at Coventry University, and a research fellow at the Institute for Creative Enterprise (Coventry) and Center for Digital Media at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver). Her research interests are in digital and creative industries, the spatial economy, and the post-industrial role of cities. Rachel worked previously in Government as a Regeneration Manager, and has worked at the universities of Birmingham and Sheffield in urban and regional studies groups. Rachel has recently completed a full time research position at the Institute for Creative Enterprise in Coventry University where she researched Post-Florida strategies for creative cities, and developed new spatial-relational mapping software. In Feb and April, Rachel completed research on the digital media and entertainment, and visual and performing art sectors in Vancouver.

Chris was appointed Chief Executive of the Kent Architecture Centre in October 2008, prior to which he was the Executive Director of arc, the architecture centre for the Humber. He has a Masters in Architecture and taught in the Diploma School in the University of Greenwich for many years and was a visiting lecturer at many other universities. He worked in practice for several years as project architect on a range of arts, housing and education projects, before founding a digital design company specialising in the computer-based generative modelling of urban form. He is a Director of the Architecture Centre Network.

 Louise Naylor has a wide range of both academic and administrative experience in higher education and interests in supporting learning, teaching and research. Louise joined the University of Kent in 1989 as a Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, in Biochemistry – a post she held for 15 years. In 2000, she was seconded to the Office for Quality Assurance and Validation to support departments preparing for Subject Review (having achieved a top score of 24 with her own department) and became Head of Quality in 2002. Working closely with members of the quality enhancement team in UELT, she became Head of the Unit in 2006, following the merger of quality assurance and enhancement activities at the University. Louise now leads a team that is responsible for the initial and continuing professional development of academic staff, curriculum and educational development including e-learning, the quality management of learning and teaching and providing student advice and guidance for effective learning. Her current professional interests include integrating quality assurance and enhancement functions within the University and developing support for all staff engaged in learning and teaching, as well as early-stage researchers. She is actively involved in the programming and activities of the Creative Campus at the University of Kent.

Jo Nolan has been chief executive of Screen South since 2005. Jo’s background includes producing and company management across a wide spectrum of film, media and arts.  She has also worked in project and event management from comic art galleries to corporates and local authorities. Jo has delivered over 50 productions including features, award winning shorts, corporate videos and music promos.

Pablo Rossello works as Programme Manager for the British Council's Creative and Cultural Economy Department since 2006, where he oversees the development and delivery of the programme in Latin America, the Middle East and Central and South Asia. He holds a MSc in Sociology from the London School of Economics, and a MA in Cultural and Creative Industries from King's College London.