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.
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
Professor Gregg Whelan
Gregg’s role at Falmouth sees him teaching across theatre, dance, music and cultural management and production. His research, professional output and curatorial activities are focused on performance culture; performance as a way of thinking about the world, and performance practices; the making and doing of performance.
Projects
Some of the projects within this programme include:
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.
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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