Hello everyone, we are very excited to be back for a new season of events, collaborating with some exciting people and groups.

Starting with an up coming collaboration with the Working Class British Art Network

More details to follow!

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De la mobilité sociale et spatiale chez les diplômé-es du supérieur au UK

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Welcomed the opportunity to attend the #DNW2024 event yesterday. Would be good to see more effective industry/academic collaboration. Lots of targeted industry recommendations here: kcl.ac.uk/cultural/proje… Natalie Wreyford Dave O'Brien

“Our evidence further suggests that the ‘London effect’, where working-class students have higher school attainment than their peers elsewhere, may not continue through to graduate employment.”

Joint paper with Yang Yu & Håkan Forsberg.

Yang led this as part of his PhD work on spatial & social mobility in the UK.

This paper on graduate mobility suggests limits of the London effect & highlights contradictions in govmt levelling up/HE policy.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

Just celebrating this humble little paper published 3 years ago that just got (according to Scholar) its 12th citation. It's gratifying to see many scholars finding valuable its long-term reconstruction of the history of the creative economy.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

We are delighted to announce that the call for papers for #EPOP2024 is now open! This will take place at the University of Manchester from 11-13 September.

Deadline for applications is 21st May. To submit, please follow this link: shorturl.at/abkCT

Join us in Manchester in September for the #EPOP2024 Conference! Call for papers now open! Deadline 21st May. Submit paper proposals using link below. You can contact me or Nicole Martin if you have any questions.

We've (Allan Watson) surpassed 6k individual downloads on Music Cities: Evaluating a Global Cultural Policy Concept! As always, a huge thank you to our authors, our commissioning editor Prof. Eleonora Belfiore #WIASN (she/her), and everyone who has bought, borrowed, read and cited🙏
link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

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I wrote a thing on Watershed, how we updated 'The art of the turnaround' to address our own deficit, and the five principles we developed for thinking about profitability artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/artic…

I wrote a book on #hollywood and #labor that you can now read: luminosoa.org/site/books/m/1… University of California Press

My paper on how we need to change the way we think about work to consider social value/social costs in IPPR #ProgressiveReview can be found here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ne…

Creative writers of fiction! ⁦English, TCD⁩ wants you. It’s tenure track. And we’re very nice.

My book “Bourdieu & Sayad Against Empire. Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle” (Polity) is coming out in the UK (15 December 2023) and in North America (20 February 2024) politybooks.com/bookdetail?boo…

“The peasant may be free of the colonist without being free of the contradictions that colonization has developed within him.” Bourdieu & Sayad

Amín Pérez dives into the foundational work of two theorists whose contribution to decolonial work has yet to be fully appreciated ↓

Great to see my commentary referenced on Bloomberg Economics Bloomberg. Important to note that low paid and insecure workers are being priced out of their homes, with Black and Asian workers and millenials particularly affected. The Work Foundation George Williams bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Don’t forget that we’re looking for a new Lecturer in Pre-Modern Art History Edinburgh College of Art EdinburghArtHistory - the job closes next week! jobs.ac.uk/job/DGU945/lec…

Looking forward to this opportunity to talk to peers about our research. Still time to sign up for anyone who's interested in longitudinal research!

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