Creative Industries
Discover how interviews, ethnography, audience research, practice-based methods and socio-legal research explore creative work across music, film, publishing, galleries and live performance.
Research into creative industries explores how creative work is produced, shared, experienced and valued across sectors including music, publishing, film, galleries and live performance. Methods including interviews, ethnography, audience research, practice-based approaches and socio-legal research can reveal how people engage with culture, how creative organisations operate, and how law, policy and industry structures shape creative activity.
Professor Naomi Hawkins
Professor Naomi Hawkins explains how socio-legal and empirical research can reveal how intellectual property law operates in practice across creative and innovative industries.
Professor Stephanie Pitts
Professor Stephanie Pitts explores how interviews, ethnography and audience research can uncover the complexity of people’s experiences of music and cultural participation.
Professor Kate Taylor-Jones
Professor Kate Taylor-Jones discusses how practice-based, co-creative and care-based methods can place participants’ experiences at the centre of research into film, gender and inequality.
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