David Wright
@davwright.bsky.social
Researching and teaching about creative industries and cultural policy at the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies, SCAPVC, University of Warwick.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/ccmps/staff/david/
If you want me, I'll be at the cricket.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/ccmps/staff/david/
If you want me, I'll be at the cricket.
Lovely few days talking Digital Cultural Heritage in Prato. A big hand to the organisers.
November 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Lovely few days talking Digital Cultural Heritage in Prato. A big hand to the organisers.
20th Saturday @trentbridge.co.uk Test in a row for me today. The things we've seen! The nonsense we've talked! The beer cup recycling systems we've navigated!
May 24, 2025 at 8:14 AM
20th Saturday @trentbridge.co.uk Test in a row for me today. The things we've seen! The nonsense we've talked! The beer cup recycling systems we've navigated!
Sorry to hear about the death of John Fox, co-founder of Welfare State International and doyen of British community arts. His 2013 statement on the role of the artist remains an important read. Imagine a cultural policy based on that!
March 16, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Sorry to hear about the death of John Fox, co-founder of Welfare State International and doyen of British community arts. His 2013 statement on the role of the artist remains an important read. Imagine a cultural policy based on that!
...but his diagnosis of the problems in HE - and especially the role of academic labour in any future solution to them - is quite compelling in my view.
This on 'soft automation' might resonate with anyone whose working day is taken up trying to get access to the systems they need to do their jobs.
This on 'soft automation' might resonate with anyone whose working day is taken up trying to get access to the systems they need to do their jobs.
February 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
...but his diagnosis of the problems in HE - and especially the role of academic labour in any future solution to them - is quite compelling in my view.
This on 'soft automation' might resonate with anyone whose working day is taken up trying to get access to the systems they need to do their jobs.
This on 'soft automation' might resonate with anyone whose working day is taken up trying to get access to the systems they need to do their jobs.
There's some hubris and chutzpah in this piece. Not least this bit which reminds me of the time he was on the business news of the Today programme talking about the number of cranes on campus as if he was overseeing an Emirate...
February 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
There's some hubris and chutzpah in this piece. Not least this bit which reminds me of the time he was on the business news of the Today programme talking about the number of cranes on campus as if he was overseeing an Emirate...
Lots to ponder in this reflection from @christophersmith.bsky.social. Strong agree from me on this point about the need for Phd focussed on creative industries. IME (5 yrs site director for an AHRC DTP and 8 yrs as a DGS of a small creative-industries Unit in a bigger Faculty of Arts)...
January 5, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Lots to ponder in this reflection from @christophersmith.bsky.social. Strong agree from me on this point about the need for Phd focussed on creative industries. IME (5 yrs site director for an AHRC DTP and 8 yrs as a DGS of a small creative-industries Unit in a bigger Faculty of Arts)...
The AI-Enshittification of Google is quite a thing.
November 1, 2024 at 11:05 AM
The AI-Enshittification of Google is quite a thing.
I don't know what it is about working in a University, but I think about Harry Tuttle - the rogue heating engineer in Brazil who goes about secretly fixing stuff despite not having the right forms or permissions- a lot. I think he might be my hero.
#academicsky
#academicsky
September 26, 2024 at 11:23 AM
I don't know what it is about working in a University, but I think about Harry Tuttle - the rogue heating engineer in Brazil who goes about secretly fixing stuff despite not having the right forms or permissions- a lot. I think he might be my hero.
#academicsky
#academicsky
If this was such an echo chamber, I'd expect to be reading a lot more Metro One Day Cup Final September scheduling outrage than I am.
September 23, 2024 at 8:27 AM
If this was such an echo chamber, I'd expect to be reading a lot more Metro One Day Cup Final September scheduling outrage than I am.
Lovely to catch up with so many Warwick PhD students, alumni and friends in Warsaw #ICCPR2023 #ICCPRinWarsaw
August 22, 2024 at 7:08 AM
Lovely to catch up with so many Warwick PhD students, alumni and friends in Warsaw #ICCPR2023 #ICCPRinWarsaw
Nice to be in Warsaw with the cultural policy cool kids at the ICCPR2024. Any other Blueskyers here? #iccpr2024 #culturalpolicy #academicsky
August 20, 2024 at 7:16 AM
Nice to be in Warsaw with the cultural policy cool kids at the ICCPR2024. Any other Blueskyers here? #iccpr2024 #culturalpolicy #academicsky
Nottingham Blueskyers! I'll be chatting with Justin O'Connor about his ace book, Culture is Not an Industry at @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social on Feb 29th. Book a spot fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/when-...
January 17, 2024 at 12:40 PM
Nottingham Blueskyers! I'll be chatting with Justin O'Connor about his ace book, Culture is Not an Industry at @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social on Feb 29th. Book a spot fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/when-...
Pretty pleased with my haul from the @versobooks.bsky.social sale.
December 13, 2023 at 4:46 PM
Pretty pleased with my haul from the @versobooks.bsky.social sale.