Research Centre for Creative Economies, Coventry University

🎓 Join us - new #funded #PhD #studentship opportunity now live! 🎓 Supporting Policy and Practice for Thriving, Just and Sustainable Artist Livelihoods Creative United UK and the Research Centre for Creative Economies, Coventry University are pleased to offer a four-year Collaborative Doctoral Award PhD position, fully-funded by the Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership to start late September 2025. The project focuses on working with Creative United and its artist groups on “sustainable artist livelihoods”. It also offers funding beyond tuition fees and a stipend to support primary research activities, placements and other professional development activities. Areas to explore might include: - What does today’s #artist livelihood #ecology look like, across the devolved UK and in place/s? - What do working artists think a thriving, just and sustainable ecology should look like? - What would be the individual, societal and place-based benefits of such an ecology? - What international examples or experimentation exist which provide a pathway to the achievement of such an ecology? - How does UK policy and practice need to change in pursuit of thriving, just and sustainable artist’s livelihoods? Further details of the project, the application process and the M4C Doctoral Training Partnership are available through the link below. Initial application procedures, including two references, must be completed by 13th January 2025. For an initial conversation or advice about this multi-stage application, please contact the Lead Supervisor, CCE Director Nick Henry.

CCE's Eleonora Belfiore will be taking part in this upcoming Performance & Business discussion on "The Price of Creativity: Power, Productivity, and Value in Cultural Industries", facilitated by Sarah Saddler If you are able to join on Friday, December 6, 2024 from 12:00-1:30 MST (2:00-3:30 EST, 7:00-8:30 PM GMT) the registration link is here: https://lnkd.in/e_-U7waj

A busy couple of weeks for CCE colleagues! Benjamin Kyneswood is featured in dispatches at the Coventry University page below. David Bek's work with Sustainable Flowers Research Project is being talked about figuratively in the AIPH magazine, and literally on the Cut Flowers Podcast from Fieldgate Flowers, available here: https://lnkd.in/ekzHiFNw Eleonora Belfiore has also taken part in a great podcast conversation with Radio Web MACBA, a non-profit, cultural communication radiophonic project based at MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Find her episode here: https://lnkd.in/e---ZfGX

This week we hosted the first Coventry and Warwickshire Exchange (CWX) network launch at our Delia Derbyshire building, bringing together businesses from the creative and immersive technology sectors!    The event brought together businesses in AI, VR, AR, XR, games, TV, film, animation and design, celebrating how creative and immersive technologies are opening new avenues for growth and innovation in Coventry and Warwickshire. 📈   Through CWX, funded by the Innovate UK Launchpad programme, Professor Nick Henry, Director of our Research Centre for Creative Economies, Coventry University, and Rachel Farrer, Associate Director of Cultural and Community Engagement, will be supporting local businesses to advance ideas toward commercialisation, fuelling economic growth and creating a collaborative space where creativity can thrive. The event included: 🔹 Insights on industry innovation 🔹 Valuable input from participating businesses 🔹 Opportunities for local growth 🔹 Inspiring success stories from the network 🔹 Future plans for CWX’s continued impact   Thank you to everyone who joined us as we work towards enhancing creativity and technology across the region! 🚀   Revisit the story: https://lnkd.in/eTK_QqR6 #CovResearch #CovBusiness Pim van Baarsen Silverstone Technology Cluster Victoria Barker Paul Fairburn Clare Green Miriam Beresford

🔙 Throwback to our digital heritage project 🔙 Dr Benjamin Kyneswood from our Research Centre for Creative Economies, Coventry University recently spoke to The Print about his exciting collaboration with Mumbai’s Hamilton Studios to digitise over 20,000 post-Partition photographs and artifacts 📜 This project aims to preserve a significant historical collection focusing on the period from 1947 to 1967 - a time of political upheaval and mass migration to the UK - and is documenting narratives that might otherwise be lost, contributing to a broader understanding of life post-Partition 🌎 Ben said: “We found many passport photographs from that era, as families sought new lives in the UK, Kenya and beyond. These photos captured young people -18 to 20-year-olds - on the brink of change. Connecting everyday people to their history is really important.” Revisit the story: https://lnkd.in/eMBmSVxj #CovResearch Nick Henry Victoria Barker  

Our theme lead for Digital Heritage and Culture, Benjamin Kyneswood, has been working with West Midlands Combined Authority on an immersive version of their 'State of the Region' report, as part of their goal to combine qualitative and quantitative evidence – and in particular, the lived, real experiences of people and communities in the West Midlands. The online version features narration from the West Midlands combined authority and race equalities taskforce, and fuses data, stories, and visuals in an engaging way to make it come alive. In Ben's words: "It’s an attempt to make more available reports that are crucial to our everyday understanding of the region. Access is also crucial: we’ve included BSL & subtitles as options in this version. We’ve learned however that immersive really means immersive when it comes to data-based reporting, because it’s a bit overwhelming!" You can find the immersive version (for desktop and VR) at the link below. We’re exploring what curation for the next version might look like, so we’re keen on feedback – how do we do VR data exploration without it feeling like too much? #livedexperience #regionalinsight #immersive #digitalheritage

A great opportunity for #coventry and #warwickshire #creativetech folks - find out more through the link in the repost.

What does sustainability really look like in practice? This is one of the key questions behind the Sustainable Flowers Research Project which held this brilliant event yesterday. Another example of the collaborative and engaged research projects in the Centre (if we do say so ourselves). More great work from David Bek and colleagues!

Here's a little round up of some key thoughts from the AHRC Place Programme event we attended last week.

Hello and thank you / welcome to all our new followers! It has been a busy week for CCE colleagues - we kicked off in style, meeting with Coventry University Research and Innovation colleagues, and since then we've been working with community groups through Coventry Digital, planning public engagement events about sustainable supply chains, discussing future projects, and discussing approaches to place at the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Architecture and Design Scotland (A&DS) / The Academy of Urbanism (AoU) event at the University of Glasgow. Plenty more to update you all on soon, but for now, have wonderful weekends. https://lnkd.in/e96Snpb5