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The Oxford Brookes Creative Industries Research and Innovation Network

 
Newsletter

 

Happy New Year and welcome to the year's first issue of the Creative Industries Research and Innovation (CIRIN) newsletter! Our Network brings together researchers, professionals, and local communities to share their expertise on this diverse sector. As a cross-disciplinary and collaborative Network, we explore critical issues and key themes around both local and global dimensions of the Creative Industries.

We are delighted to announce the return of our annual festival in March 2022. The 2nd International Creative Industries Festival will be on the theme of 'Creative industries for a better society' and for two jam-packed weeks we will be scheduling talks, workshops and performances looking at the role of the creative industries in improving people’s daily lives. Take a look at the announcement and call for papers and panels below!

Our monthly webinar series continues in February and we invite you to join us for a discussion on Global Streaming Services and the European Screen Industries with Dr Christopher Meir, who will present key findings of a report on the state of European screen industries conducted for the European Commission. Recordings of previous events can now be accessed on our new YouTube channel. 

We thank you for your readership and look forward to seeing you soon!
 

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2nd International
Creative Industries Festival


21st March - 1st April 2022
 
Following the success of our inaugural Creative Industries Festival in 2021, the Creative Industries Research and Innovation Network (CIRIN) at Oxford Brookes are returning with the 2nd International Creative Industries Festival on the theme of ‘Creative industries for a better society’. For two jam-packed weeks starting on March 21st, we will be scheduling talks, workshops and performances looking at the role of the creative industries in improving people’s daily lives. 

There will be a combination of online events to enable international audiences and speakers to take part, and face to face events to bring together industry figures, students, interested members of the public and our cutting edge researchers to imagine a better society with the creative industries at its centre and celebrate the role of universities as spaces of freedom of expression and creativity.

Like last year, we will be looking for ways to build a more inclusive creative sector and celebrate a wide range of diverse creatives working in a vast array of creative fields. We will celebrate art, museums, film, photography, music, media, celebrity culture, poetry, carnival, storytelling, immersive tech, AI, and look at creative approaches to tackling problems like climate change, inequality and discrimination. 


Watch out for the festival programme on the CIRIN website and Facebook
 
The following events are an example of how the Network can promote activities from across different disciplinary sectors. More events will come and if you have any potential content for the newsletter please feel encouraged to contact creativeindustries@brookes.ac.uk

















Festival Announcement:
Creative Coalition 2022

Tuesday 1st -Thursday 3rd February 2022
 
Creative UK announces the return of Creative Coalition, our flagship festival for the creative industries. With a diverse three-day programme of virtual events, the festival combines inspiring speakers, interviews and discussions, with live performances, immersive experiences, and engaging workshops. Featuring over 200 speakers, across more than 50 sessions on six stages, the diverse three-day programme of events is presented online from 1-3 February 2022.

Registration for free and more information here.
 
The National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange invites bookings for the annual showcase event: The Power of Collaborative Action: People, Place and Planet, taking place on 9th March. 

​​Call for contributors: If you are involved in the development of a collaborative initiative including both a Higher Education and an arts and culture sector partner, and you would like to present your work, please send through a brief synopsis of your project to Noshin Sultan (noshin@tcce.co.uk) by 5pm 31st January 2022. 

The NCACE are also seeking a freelance researcher or evaluation professional with experience of the arts and cultural sector to work with them on a focused piece of work to support the dissemination of learning from the recent Micro-Commissions initiative, more details here
Opportunities
 
Digital Society Network Plus: exploring people’s relationships with digital technologies
ESRC funding to develop a network to research people’s relationships with technology as part of the ‘Living with Technology’ strategic priority in the 2019 delivery plan.

Collaborate with German partners on arts and humanities research
AHRC invites arts and humanities researchers to apply for funding to collaborate with German partners who are eligible to apply to DFG.

Develop basic technologies in sensing and imaging
Funding opportunity to develop early-stage technologies in sensing and imaging by AHRC together with Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Medical Research Council (MRC), Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).
CIRIN Event Series
Global Streaming Services and the European Screen Industries: Opportunities and Challenges
Chair: Hanna Klien-Thomas
Thursday 17th February 2022, 12pm-1pm, on Zoom.
Please register here in order to join.
In the ten years since Netflix arrived in the UK and Ireland, global streaming services have transformed the landscape of the European film and television industries. Netflix and later Amazon Prime Video, followed by Disney+, Apple TV+ and a host of others have become important distributors and producers of screen media in many European countries and rivals to public service and commercial broadcasters alike across the continent and have even come to be seen as a threat to the traditional film exhibition industry. Drawing on research conducted on behalf of the European Commission, this seminar will provide an overview of some of the effects that these companies have had on the European screen industries while also examining some of threats they pose to European producers, distributors and broadcasters. Reflecting on the double-edged sword the companies present to the continent's screen industries, the seminar concludes with some reflections on the changes needed to ensure that the industries simultaneously take advantage of the opportunities presented by the emergence of these services, while also mitigating some of the risks they represent to local media production and consumption in the region. 

Christopher Meir is Assistant Professor in Communication at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, where he is also a member of the research group TECMERIN. He is the author of Mass Producing European Cinema: Studiocanal and Its works, Scottish Cinema: Texts and Context and the co-editor with Andrew Spicer and A.T. McKenna of Beyond the Bottom Line: The Producer in Film and Television Studies. He was commissioned to produce the report on the state of European screen industries for the European Commission. 
 
 
CREATIVE INDUSTRIES FOR A BETTER SOCIETY
 
Festival 2022 - Call for papers and panels

 
The Creative Industries Research and Innovation Network (CIRIN) brings scholars from very distinct areas of research across the university to share their expertise on the creative sector. The network builds upon the wealth of cross-disciplinary research currently being conducted at Oxford Brookes into the Creative Industries.

As a cross-disciplinary, collaborative network, we wish to share current network members’ research, and the university’s connections with the creative industries in a hybrid on- and off-line festival. This series of events will take place in the last two weeks of March 2022 and will hopefully be of wide interest to members, students, policy makers, creative industry professionals, and those building the creative industries within Oxford specifically.

We are hoping to attract as many members as possible, so that we can celebrate the breadth of our network’s research and its multidisciplinary perspective. We especially welcome events which foster international connections. We are keen to receive proposals in different formats, including:

Creative performances 

Workshops geared towards collectively solving social issues

Research presentations (15 minutes) presenting work in in progress, findings of current or completed research projects, methodological challenges or  impact activities

In conversation: a brief discussion between an academic and a creative industry professional (up to 1 hour)

Panel discussions between academics and creative industry professionals  (up to 1 hour)

Please send a proposal up to 200 words (including format chosen, whether online, on campus or flexible, institution affiliation and role, details of invited industry speakers where relevant, and abstract) by the 31st of January to creativeindustries@brookes.ac.uk.   
 
We are excited to read your proposals!
 
The Network Lead Team.
 
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