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Funded PhD opportunities thread!
1) Creative Bridges: Are you passionate about shaping the future of the screen industries? Applications are now open for Creative Bridges CDT, an AHRC-funded doctoral training programme from the University of Leeds and University of Warwick. creativebridges-cdt.ac.uk
1) Creative Bridges: Are you passionate about shaping the future of the screen industries? Applications are now open for Creative Bridges CDT, an AHRC-funded doctoral training programme from the University of Leeds and University of Warwick. creativebridges-cdt.ac.uk
Creative Bridges – Connecting Diversity and Sustainability for UK Screen Industries
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November 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Funded PhD opportunities thread!
1) Creative Bridges: Are you passionate about shaping the future of the screen industries? Applications are now open for Creative Bridges CDT, an AHRC-funded doctoral training programme from the University of Leeds and University of Warwick. creativebridges-cdt.ac.uk
1) Creative Bridges: Are you passionate about shaping the future of the screen industries? Applications are now open for Creative Bridges CDT, an AHRC-funded doctoral training programme from the University of Leeds and University of Warwick. creativebridges-cdt.ac.uk
i once sat next to someone on a flight who watched Diary of a CEO for 14 hours
Listening to podcasts on a plane’s in flight entertainment system is real sicko behaviour The only person I have seen who listened to a podcast on a plane also owned a Diary of a CEO branded journal
October 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
i once sat next to someone on a flight who watched Diary of a CEO for 14 hours
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Do a funded PhD with me! We are looking for projects at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary enquiry into AI and inequalities!
www.linkedin.com/posts/susan-...
www.linkedin.com/posts/susan-...
Power and Difference in the time of responsible AI at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com | Susan Oman
Do a funded PhD with me! We are looking for projects at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary enquiry into AI and inequalities!
"Your doctoral research project will be designed by you to respond to...
www.linkedin.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Do a funded PhD with me! We are looking for projects at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary enquiry into AI and inequalities!
www.linkedin.com/posts/susan-...
www.linkedin.com/posts/susan-...
just to echo Robin: *23*?
(i’m on my way home from a performance at an NPO hosted by another NPO, let’s see what i get asked to do)
(i’m on my way home from a performance at an NPO hosted by another NPO, let’s see what i get asked to do)
October 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
just to echo Robin: *23*?
(i’m on my way home from a performance at an NPO hosted by another NPO, let’s see what i get asked to do)
(i’m on my way home from a performance at an NPO hosted by another NPO, let’s see what i get asked to do)
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Nice to see two excellent academic collections on audiences, data and policy [including my only (!) academic article] in new (more affordable) editions:
www.routledge.com/A-Reader-on-...
www.routledge.com/Audience-Dat...
Credit to @sdjhadley.bsky.social for editing/making them happen…
www.routledge.com/A-Reader-on-...
www.routledge.com/Audience-Dat...
Credit to @sdjhadley.bsky.social for editing/making them happen…
October 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Nice to see two excellent academic collections on audiences, data and policy [including my only (!) academic article] in new (more affordable) editions:
www.routledge.com/A-Reader-on-...
www.routledge.com/Audience-Dat...
Credit to @sdjhadley.bsky.social for editing/making them happen…
www.routledge.com/A-Reader-on-...
www.routledge.com/Audience-Dat...
Credit to @sdjhadley.bsky.social for editing/making them happen…
i'm looking through some old teaching materials, and i'd forgotten i'd made this
October 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
i'm looking through some old teaching materials, and i'd forgotten i'd made this
funded quants x cultural policy x sociology PhDs don’t come up very often. this looks great! please circulate!
Great (paid) PhD opportunity. Excellent environment, conditions, and supervisors. And a topic close to my heart. (Selfish reason for promoting this: I fear there won't be enough concerts for retired me to go to. Geen dag zonder Bach.) vacatures.knaw.nl/job/The-Hagu...
PhD position "Is the audience for classical music concerts fading out?"
PhD position "Is the audience for classical music concerts fading out?"
vacatures.knaw.nl
October 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
funded quants x cultural policy x sociology PhDs don’t come up very often. this looks great! please circulate!
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Free registration is still open for A Global Dialogue on Cultural Policy and Sustainable Development. Join the conversation.
🔗 en.dialogo-global2025.pucp.edu.pe
#CulturalPolicy #GlobalSouth
🔗 en.dialogo-global2025.pucp.edu.pe
#CulturalPolicy #GlobalSouth
International Conference
PUCP and the scientific journal Cultural Trends organize the 2025 edition of the International Conference
en.dialogo-global2025.pucp.edu.pe
October 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Free registration is still open for A Global Dialogue on Cultural Policy and Sustainable Development. Join the conversation.
🔗 en.dialogo-global2025.pucp.edu.pe
#CulturalPolicy #GlobalSouth
🔗 en.dialogo-global2025.pucp.edu.pe
#CulturalPolicy #GlobalSouth
(free) registration for @ctjournal.bsky.social's Global Dialogues conference is now open! en.dialogo-global2025.pucp.edu.pe. i realise not many people who follow me on here are in or near Lima; please share if anyone you know is!
(keynotes - ~13:00 and 20:00 UK time each day - will be livestreamed)
(keynotes - ~13:00 and 20:00 UK time each day - will be livestreamed)
International Conference
This conference is part of the Global Dialogues series of Cultural Trends magazine. In this 2025 edition, the event will be held at the PUCP, Lima - Peru.
en.dialogo-global2025.pucp.edu.pe
September 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
(free) registration for @ctjournal.bsky.social's Global Dialogues conference is now open! en.dialogo-global2025.pucp.edu.pe. i realise not many people who follow me on here are in or near Lima; please share if anyone you know is!
(keynotes - ~13:00 and 20:00 UK time each day - will be livestreamed)
(keynotes - ~13:00 and 20:00 UK time each day - will be livestreamed)
London comms job! work with me! £31kish. feel free to DM with any Qs
If you'd like to help us support the UK's creative industries, we're currently hiring a London-based Comms and Events Officer. Please do apply if it matches your interests and experience. Closing date is 7 September.
Full details here: pec.ac.uk/job_entries/...
Full details here: pec.ac.uk/job_entries/...
We're hiring a Comms and Events Officer - Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre
Creative PEC, working in partnership with Newcastle University and the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) is recruiting for a Communications and Events Officer Contract Type: Fixed Term Working Pattern: Fu...
pec.ac.uk
August 13, 2025 at 9:12 AM
London comms job! work with me! £31kish. feel free to DM with any Qs
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They argue for a data-first culture where ‘bad news’ is not seen as a threat, and for investing in an infrastructure that allows for independent collection and analysis of data.
Read the guest blog: pec.ac.uk/blog_entries...
Read the guest blog: pec.ac.uk/blog_entries...
When Data Hurts: What the Arts Can Learn from the BLS Firing - Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre
Read the blog from Douglas Noonan and Joanna Woronkowicz about the dangers of dismissing or discarding data that doesn't fit the narrative.
pec.ac.uk
August 12, 2025 at 8:50 AM
They argue for a data-first culture where ‘bad news’ is not seen as a threat, and for investing in an infrastructure that allows for independent collection and analysis of data.
Read the guest blog: pec.ac.uk/blog_entries...
Read the guest blog: pec.ac.uk/blog_entries...
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The benefits of culture to health, education and community are championed, but can culture ever do wrong?
'Culture is Bad for You' exposes systems of precarity, and the exclusion of women, people of colour, and working-class people: www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
#EdBookFest #booksky
'Culture is Bad for You' exposes systems of precarity, and the exclusion of women, people of colour, and working-class people: www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
#EdBookFest #booksky
Orian Brook, Dave O’Brien & Mark Taylor: Is Culture Bad For You?
From Tue 19 Aug - The benefits of culture to health, education and community are championed, but can culture ever do wrong? First published in 2020, academics and creative industry experts Orian…
www.edbookfest.co.uk
August 11, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The benefits of culture to health, education and community are championed, but can culture ever do wrong?
'Culture is Bad for You' exposes systems of precarity, and the exclusion of women, people of colour, and working-class people: www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
#EdBookFest #booksky
'Culture is Bad for You' exposes systems of precarity, and the exclusion of women, people of colour, and working-class people: www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
#EdBookFest #booksky
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Anyone making their way to Edinburgh (or already nearby!), I *think* that there are still tickets available - come here me, @markrt.bsky.social and @drdaveobrien.bsky.social chat about whether Culture is still bad for you www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
August 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Anyone making their way to Edinburgh (or already nearby!), I *think* that there are still tickets available - come here me, @markrt.bsky.social and @drdaveobrien.bsky.social chat about whether Culture is still bad for you www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
British Academy's just announced its new Fellows. 19 Oxbridge, 29 other Russell Group, 9 elsewhere (2xSt Andrews, Aberdeen, Courtauld, Institute for Historical Research, Leicester, Surrey, UEA, Reading), 0 post-92. cool well-functioning higher education section we've got
July 18, 2025 at 10:14 AM
British Academy's just announced its new Fellows. 19 Oxbridge, 29 other Russell Group, 9 elsewhere (2xSt Andrews, Aberdeen, Courtauld, Institute for Historical Research, Leicester, Surrey, UEA, Reading), 0 post-92. cool well-functioning higher education section we've got
Edinburgh! 19 August! 15:30! Spiegeltent! Book! www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
(per the advertising, i promise @orianbrook.bsky.social and I will be slightly higher up than @drdaveobrien.bsky.social throughout)
(per the advertising, i promise @orianbrook.bsky.social and I will be slightly higher up than @drdaveobrien.bsky.social throughout)
July 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Edinburgh! 19 August! 15:30! Spiegeltent! Book! www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
(per the advertising, i promise @orianbrook.bsky.social and I will be slightly higher up than @drdaveobrien.bsky.social throughout)
(per the advertising, i promise @orianbrook.bsky.social and I will be slightly higher up than @drdaveobrien.bsky.social throughout)
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Being an artists is about "suffering and madness" while "completely covered in paint"
🙄
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
🙄
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
Ed Sheeran’s Pollock homage has energy but no feeling or truth
Abstract art like this gives all abstract art a bad name, just meaningless concoctions that avoid proper scrutiny
www.theguardian.com
July 9, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Being an artists is about "suffering and madness" while "completely covered in paint"
🙄
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
🙄
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
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CfP! We Want More: Music / Sociology!
Call for papers | International Popular Music Studies Conference at @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social 8th April 2026, deadline for abstracts 1st Oct 2025 www.eur.nl/en/eshcc/eve...
Call for papers | International Popular Music Studies Conference at @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social 8th April 2026, deadline for abstracts 1st Oct 2025 www.eur.nl/en/eshcc/eve...
We Want More: Music / Sociology!
Join us to explore the sociology of (popular) music – from AI to activism, labour to care. Call for papers open until 1 October 2025.
www.eur.nl
July 8, 2025 at 9:10 AM
CfP! We Want More: Music / Sociology!
Call for papers | International Popular Music Studies Conference at @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social 8th April 2026, deadline for abstracts 1st Oct 2025 www.eur.nl/en/eshcc/eve...
Call for papers | International Popular Music Studies Conference at @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social 8th April 2026, deadline for abstracts 1st Oct 2025 www.eur.nl/en/eshcc/eve...
what a team. this’ll be great!
📢 Exciting news! The University of Leeds and the University of Warwick have together secured one of just ten AHRC Doctoral Focal Awards for Creative Bridges – a major new interdisciplinary PhD programme focused on sustainability and diversity in the screen industries. 🧵
July 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
what a team. this’ll be great!
Peru! enormously excited for this. get those abstracts in!
We’re excited to announce Dr Mark Taylor as keynote at the Cultural Trends Global Dialogue this November in Lima.
His research on inequality in culture & creative industries offers vital perspective to our dialogue.
Proposals due 14 July!
📄 Full call: www.linkedin.com/pulse/announ...
His research on inequality in culture & creative industries offers vital perspective to our dialogue.
Proposals due 14 July!
📄 Full call: www.linkedin.com/pulse/announ...
July 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Peru! enormously excited for this. get those abstracts in!
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ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) and Cultural Trends invite you:
Cultural Policy and Sustainable Development: A Global Dialogue
Lima, Peru | 5–7 November 2025
Full announcement and CFP:
www.linkedin.com/posts/cultur...
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) and Cultural Trends invite you:
Cultural Policy and Sustainable Development: A Global Dialogue
Lima, Peru | 5–7 November 2025
Full announcement and CFP:
www.linkedin.com/posts/cultur...
ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS: Cultural Policy and Sustainable… | Cultural Trends Journal
ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) and Cultural Trends invite you
Cultural Policy and Sustainable Development: A Global Dialogue
Lima, Peru 5-7 Novembe...
www.linkedin.com
May 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) and Cultural Trends invite you:
Cultural Policy and Sustainable Development: A Global Dialogue
Lima, Peru | 5–7 November 2025
Full announcement and CFP:
www.linkedin.com/posts/cultur...
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) and Cultural Trends invite you:
Cultural Policy and Sustainable Development: A Global Dialogue
Lima, Peru | 5–7 November 2025
Full announcement and CFP:
www.linkedin.com/posts/cultur...
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Just a reminder that if you are in Edinburgh you can hear me, @drdaveobrien.bsky.social, antonio cuyler, Beata Kowalczyk and Ines Ruiz Alvarado chaired by @klloyd.bsky.social talking about all things inequality in creative work on Tuesday evening at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social
Culture is Bad for You - Edinburgh Futures Institute
A panel event on the mechanisms of exclusion in cultural work and how they are mirrored in other national and policy contexts
efi.ed.ac.uk
March 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Just a reminder that if you are in Edinburgh you can hear me, @drdaveobrien.bsky.social, antonio cuyler, Beata Kowalczyk and Ines Ruiz Alvarado chaired by @klloyd.bsky.social talking about all things inequality in creative work on Tuesday evening at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social
today!
CULTURE IS BAD FOR YOU LIVE! @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social 27th March 6.15-7.45pm, free entry if you buy the new edition of the book! AND Gab from the white pube is interviewing us too! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/culture-is...
CULTURE IS BAD FOR YOU - Orian Brook, Dave O'Brien and Mark Taylor
Join us to celebrate the updated edition of CULTURE IS BAD FOR YOU, with the 3 authors in conversation with Gabrielle de la Puente
www.eventbrite.co.uk
March 27, 2025 at 8:31 AM
today!
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Some weekend reading! @petersoc.bsky.social @markrt.bsky.social & I blogging for @creativepec.bsky.social about our recent paper on who gets film funding from the BFI pec.ac.uk/blog_entries... (spoilers- there are lots of inequalities)
Class inequalities in film funding - Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre
Professor Dave O'Brien writes about class inequalities in film funding in the UK using data from the British Film Institute (BFI).
pec.ac.uk
March 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Some weekend reading! @petersoc.bsky.social @markrt.bsky.social & I blogging for @creativepec.bsky.social about our recent paper on who gets film funding from the BFI pec.ac.uk/blog_entries... (spoilers- there are lots of inequalities)
Ruoxi's the best
"Creative self-employed workforce in England and Wales"
Read our latest guest blog, where Dr Ruoxi Wang from University of Sheffield breaks down the data on self-employed creative workers by geographic location including an interactive dashboard display.
Read it here: buff.ly/Jl4njBb
Read our latest guest blog, where Dr Ruoxi Wang from University of Sheffield breaks down the data on self-employed creative workers by geographic location including an interactive dashboard display.
Read it here: buff.ly/Jl4njBb
March 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Ruoxi's the best
god i love quants
We polled 'Trigger's broom' (or the 'Ship of Theseus' thought experiment, if you prefer): if you replace all the components of your broom, is it still the same broom?
It is still the same broom: 29%
It is no longer the same broom: 63%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
It is still the same broom: 29%
It is no longer the same broom: 63%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
March 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
god i love quants