Leverhulme ECF @CCMPSWarwickUni. Interested in museums, austerity, museum closures, commercialisation, professional ethics and policy.
Norwich, UK
Joined January 2012
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Woken up this morning wanting to know how local government spending on culture has changed since the onset of austerity? My paper with @Peter_Soc is available open access @CulturalTrends_ looking at spending patterns between 2009/10 - 2018/19 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…. #museums
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New in LGS@50 in '‘Change? Decay? Promise?: fifty years of local government cultural services in the UK' @bethanyrex &Clive Gray show how ideological preferences of different administrations have created a highly uncertain&challenging operating environment tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Now out & Open Access from @bethanyrex & Clive Gray
‘Change? Decay? Promise?: fifty years of local government cultural services in the UK 👇👇tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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📢🔥 New Call for Papers for a new themed issue...
How Places are Contesting the Privatisation of Local Public Services
academic.oup.com/cjres/pages…
Abstracts due but 1st November 2024
Editors: @JudithClifton6, Ron Martin, @_mia_gray, David McDonald
Niche request - anyone use NVivo 14 on Mac find it crashes each time you hit the CAPS key?! Any fixes?
Lovely to see my work with @Peter_Soc cited in this think-piece linked to the @BritishAcademy_ cultural infrastructure project. Feel like I only ever tweet about that article which is funny what with it being an unexpected lockdown project.
. @LGAcomms think piece—The case for "cultural infrastructure"
@michaelkenny_, @OJGarling & @StephCoulter8 highlight the value & impact of culture, heritage & sport not only economically but also in shaping people’s sense of wellbeing & local attachment.
local.gov.uk/topics/culture-…
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Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies, University of Warwick, is excited to announce our One Day Postgraduate Conference: Being Human in the Media & Creative Industries: Policies and Practices, CFP: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapv… 19th June 2024.
@CCMPSWarwickUni @ArtsWarwick
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Reposting this as citizens' assemblies are in the news. Here I explore their use in #broadcasting #policy and #Regulation
My recent piece in @IRPP Policy Options: citizen assemblies & broadcasting regulation #c11 policyoptions.irpp.org/magaz…
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A great piece of work! @BenWalmsley: "To demystify the processes involved in policymaking, the @valuingculture collaborated with the @DCMS to develop a new resource for academic researchers: How to shape cultural policy through research" timeshighereducation.com/cam…
Great to see cuts to culture being discussed in @guardian but these averages create a false picture of similarity. As my work w/ @Peter_Soc shows, the real story is not about uniform cuts but variation and thus deepening inequalities in service provision. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Analysis by @guardian shows between 2010-11 & 2022-23 real terms council spending fell in all areas bar social care:
- cultural services cut by 43%,
- roads & transport by 40%
- housing by 35%
- planning & development by a third
And more planned cuts ahead…
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Working on #museums and heritage, care work, care ethics, emotion work, hope ...? get in touch
CFP edited book info below
@SDObjects @LeicsMusStud
CFP for an edited collection with @SDObjects from @LeicsMusStud on care and museum work.
We welcome contributions from across disciplines, and reflections from practice
To view our call for papers, visit:
drive.google.com/file/d/1jHH…
@Crit_Heritage
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Anyone working on #culturalpolicy in Canada since 2015 (J Trudeau era)? #canadianculturalpolicy
I was lucky enough to have a sneak preview of this and can say it's great - must read for anyone interested not only in parks but also local government & cultural/social infrastructure
So it turns out Blue Monday is when Culture, Participation, Policy and the Municipal Public Park is published @Palgrave
Thanks to everyone who helped get it out - for all who love & understand the cultural importance of parks 💚
Link here (not yet OA): link.springer.com/book/97830…
Really need to get on with writing my book on museum closures
Hampshire Cultural Trust (HCT) has given Fareham Borough Council 12 months’ notice that it will be closing Westbury Manor Museum at the end of this year
fareham.gov.uk/latest_news/p…
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"It is with huge disappointment, that I received the news this week that from April 2024 the City Council is proposing that they no longer support Watershed with cultural funding"
Our CEO @clarered on this & the many ways we deliver on the city's mission:
watershed.co.uk/articles/bri…
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Published today, this insightful book addresses the underrepresentation of motherhood in museums. The author, Louise-Clarke, argues that museums wield the power to influence what we think about families, mothers & the labour of care. routledge.com/Museum-Represe… @RoutledgeHist
hey @greateranglia - do you still do the 90 min service Norwich - London? Can't see it on the timetable.
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Obviously there are a LOT of things we could say abut this, but we'll let you digest the news first...
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Published today, this fab. volume (ed. by @BreakellSue & @wendyaleasha) is the first to bring together a range of methodological approaches to the materiality of archives, as a framework for their engagement, analysis & interpretation. routledge.com/The-Materialit… @routledgebooks
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Culture should be seen as part of essential infrastructure provision, alongside other vital public services, say @PatrycjaKasz and @jimpurnell of @UAL artsprofessional.co.uk/magaz…
On my first child free solo day for 16 months I thought maybe I’ll go shopping but diverted to @MillenniumLib instead. Nothing beats choosing books in the gentle hubbub of a library ❤️