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Creative Industries Futures

The creative industries are the fastest growing sector of the UK economy, their diversification connects creative practitioners, researchers and innovators with a raft of social challenges and opportunities. Our projects, working across a range of specialisms, contribute to the growth, impact and knowledge base of this most interdisciplinary of sectors.

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    Programme overview 

    The creative industries contribute to almost every part of our lives, skills and knowledge generated by the sector increasingly play a crucial role in our social, cultural and economic response, and resilience, to 21st Century global challenges.

    Our projects ask how creative thinking, innovation and practice can contribute to the development and social impact of the creative industries. As creatives what social, cultural and economic contribution does our work make to society, and how to extend, measure and understand the nature of that impact?

    By focusing on the future direction of the creative industries, working with industry partners and stakeholders, our projects seek to contribute to multiple new and emergent areas of innovation. 

    The coming year will see Creative Industries Futures focus on three priority areas; Curation, event design and production: Broadcast platforms and content: Creativity and wellbeing. Questions common to these areas, and other projects across the programme include: 

    • What is the future direction of the creative industries?
    • How do we best identify emergent opportunities in the creative industries?
    • What new tools, products and services are ripe for development within the creative industries?
    • What educational models are required to encourage innovation in the creative industries?

    Our research in the creative industries contributes to the development of the sector and benefits a raft of communities, stakeholders and partners. Across the coming year we will be particularly focused on identifying, connecting with, and listening to, hard to reach and underserved audiences/users of creative outputs and services. 

    Programme lead

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    Dr Laura Hodsdon


    Dr Laura Hodsdon is a Research Fellow at Falmouth University. Her research and professional outputs focus on social justice, socio-spatiality, organisational policy and skills, and literature and narrative to explore (in)equality in organisations, socio-cultural landscapes, and heritage.

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    Projects 

    Some of the projects within this programme include:​

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    Mametz

    Lead: Professor Chris Morris

    Mametz was a 2014 site-specific production that offered a glimpse of life and death in the trenches.

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    Cornwall Contemporary Poetry Festival

    Lead: Tom Scott

    The first Cornwall Contemporary Poetry Festival brought together leading contemporary poets for two days of readings, workshops and...

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    Literary editors and peer-to-peer book reviewers: Rethinking the role of cultural intermediaries in a socially networked age

    This chapter examines the evolving roles of cultural intermediaries and cultural curators within the world of books.

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    ANTI Contemporary Art Festival

    ANTI Festival presents an annual season of contemporary art shown across public spaces.

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    A Case for Cornish Public Service Media

    Lead: Denzil Monk

    Commissioned by Cornwall Council, this research paper investigates the potential business and development models for a Cornish PSM.

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    How Can Artists and Designers Working with Museums and Collections Contribute to the Notion of Active Citizenship?

    This paper examines through a series of selected contrasting examples, how interpretation in a range of forms might be seen to actively arm...

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    The Cinematologists

    Lead: Dr Neil Fox

    The Cinematologists is a podcast that brings fans, filmmakers, critics and academics together to watch, discuss and engage with cinema of...

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    Re-voicing Cultural Landscapes

    Lead: Dr Laura Hodsdon

    Re-voicing Cultural Landscapes studies the relationships between majority and minority perspectives on intangible cultural heritage,

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    Spatial Audio Journalism

    Lead: Dr Abigail Wincott

    This project is working with journalists to identify opportunities and challenges in their use of spatial audio.

    Research opportunities

    Alignment criteria​

    We welcome applications for PhD or MPhil that align with the Creative Industries Futures programme. ​

    How to apply​

    Applicants may apply by submitting a project idea of their own or by responding to one of our Falmouth Doctoral Project briefs.

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    Research Repository

    Falmouth University’s Research Repository (FURR) hosts, preserves and provides open access to our publicly available collection of University produced research materials, for the benefit of staff students, the wider field and general public.​

    Creative Industries Futures in FURR

    Access all current and historic research materials published in association with the Creative Industries Futures programme and its portfolio of research and innovation projects.

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