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  • MA CCI students win paid Internships at King’s Cultural Challenge final

    Twelve King’s students set out their responses to questions facing the cultural sector in last week’s final of King’s Cultural Challenge, competing to win one of four paid internships with the V&A, Southbank Centre, the… Read more

  • The cultural economy, creative cities and the recession

    Professor Andy Pratt is pleased to report the publication today of a special issue of the international peer review journal Cities that he co-edited on the topic of the cultural economy and the recession. This… Read more

  • CMCI PhD Conference 11 June 2013

    Annual CMCI PhD Conference: Culture and Power 11 June 2013, Strand Campus, King’s College London How is power negotiated in everyday cultural encounters? How are power relations in the cultural industries manifested? This one-day departmental… Read more

  • CMCI pleased to announce two ESRC scholarships

    CMCI are delighted to announce that we have successfully secured two ESRC scholarships for Ulrike Chouguley (to work with Professor Andy Pratt) and Aofie Sadlier (to work with Dr Paul Sweetman). Both have accepted and… Read more

  • The point is to change it….

    Professor Andy Pratt has a new article published today, entitled ‘“… the point is to change it” Critical realism and human geography.’ The paper discusses issues of philosophy and explanation, picking up themes discussed in… Read more

  • Dr Bridget Conor interviewed for Brazilian newspaper Valor Economico

    Dr Bridget Conor was recently interviewed for Brazilian newspaper Valor Economico by journalist and current MA CCI student Ana Paula de Sousa. In the interview Bridget and Ana Paula discussed the rise of creative labour… Read more

  • Ruth Adams takes parts in Museums Showoff

    This week (Tuesday 14 May) Dr Ruth Adams was the first act up at a cultural industries event with a difference. Museums Showoff is an open mic night in a pub, at which ten speakers… Read more

  • Creative knowledge exchange

    Profesor Andy Pratt gave a talk to creative practitioners on 30 April at The Culture Capital Exchange conference Research, Creativity and Business 2: Making the Extraordinary which took place at CASS Business School, City University.… Read more

  • ESRC Collaborative Studentship available

    Elisabeth Kelan (Department of Management) and Rosalind Gill (Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries) have been successful in obtaining another Collaborative Studentship from the ESRC, to explore gender inequalities in work and organisations. The… Read more

  • Unequal Academia?

    The Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries’ Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis Rosalind Gill will be speaking at Manchester Business School on 5 June 2013, as part of a day conference concerned with the position of women… Read more