Our next Place Forum will focus on creative growth. Speakers include:

👉 Francesca Heygi - Edinburgh International Festival
👉 Josh Siepel - Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre & University of Sussex
👉Sam Burton - Creative East: The Create Growth Programme
👉 Carol Bell - Creative UK
👉 Charlie Kemp - Tees Valley CA

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📊Geek alert!! Some super useful data in here, along with some really interesting narrative. I was almost late for my own focus group the other day I was so busy digging into it!🔍

'The cultural sector is not just about GVA - we need to quantify wider social value' Bernard Hay Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre today Future Cities Forum with Barbican Centre Leighton House and Sambourne House Arts Council England @BDP Buro Happold MICA Scott Brownrigg Pilbrow & Partners

“The industry is often built on nepotism, and secret nods and handshakes, and unpaid internships.” Sian Davies *Best in Class*

New Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre research finds 'persistent inequalities' in arts & culture, with working-class people underrepresented in every area.

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We’re #hiring for a new economist, to use academic research to make an impact on society.

Package of support includes up to £50K research expenses, a PhD studentship, and 5 years of dedicated time for research.

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📰Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre's latest research shows a lack of diversity in the creative industries.

West Yorkshire aims to change this through Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire's Screen Diversity Programme.

Learn more:
inclusivegrowthnetwork.org/resource-hub/c… #CreativeEconomy #DiversityInArts

ICYMI: For Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre's latest report in its State of the Nation series, Mark Taylor has been mining Census 2021 data for greater insights into arts, culture and heritage audiences and workforce mark taylor
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Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre Arts and Humanities Research Council mark taylor Dave O'Brien Siobhan McAndrew

More coverage of our latest State of the Nations research by mark taylor Dave O'Brien Siobhan McAndrew + Dr Ruoxi Wang. Thanks to Rachael Healy for covering this important discussion. And thanks to our Funders Arts and Humanities Research Council

⚡ Our May newsletter for the UK creative industries is out today, jam-packed with news, research, case studies, events and opportunities.

Featuring John Smedley Finisterre London Craft Week Pride in Leadership Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre Eliza Easton + many more

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And an excellent presentation from Emily Hopkins Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre on the narrative underpinning creative cities linked to Coventry 2021

A great tool from the recent Audiences and Workforce research study: an interactive map to plot the data at ward level

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📢New research from Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre maps diversity & socioeconomic inequalities

📝Institute for Cultural Practices Prof Dave O'Brien co-authored the report on arts, culture and heritage using key data from #Census2021 , DCMS participation survey & ONS labour force survey

🔗Read: ow.ly/xXaU50RJAki

Great report here from PEC Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre with bang up to date data on UK audiences and workforce, and interactive dashboards on the UK creative workforce (scroll to bottom of the page). CreativeEstuary Create South East #SECEN
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Census 2021 is a goldmine for cultural policymakers, says Dr Mark Taylor. Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre has used it to publish dashboards allowing anyone to explore the diversity of arts audiences and workforce in their area mark taylor
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There's still time to register for this week's Creative PEC Seminar, at 3pm today.

Join Professor Jen Snowball to learn about the economics of fashion design in South Africa.

Online (and free!)

Sign up here:
newcastleuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Missed the launch of our report on arts, culture and heritage workforce and audiences?

Or want to dig deeper into the data?

Report author mark taylor has an article in today's Arts Professional about how the researchers used census data to uncover their findings:

artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/artic…

This week Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre released new research revealing that the number of people from working class backgrounds in film, TV and radio are the lowest in a decade at just 8% of the workforce.

Let's change that.

Sign up for Discover! Creative Careers Week: discovercreative.careers/about/discover…

Working class creatives in film and TV lowest in over a decade bit.ly/4dD7LpF

Thanks for joining our industry panel 📚 Peggy Hughes 👟 🌱 Your insight across the literature sector and reflections on socioeconomic inequalities in the workforce were so valuable to the discussion.

Fantastic to see our new report - 'Arts, Culture, and Heritage: Audiences and Workforce' - covered in The Independent.

'Working class representation in the film and TV industry has plummeted to the lowest level in a decade, according to a new study.'

independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…