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The Oxford Brookes Creative Industries Research and Innovation Network

 
Newsletter

 

Welcome to the February issue of the Creative Industries Research and Innovation Network (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.

At this moment we think it is important to highlight issues related to workers' rights in the creative industries and in higher education. In solidarity with the UCU strike and action short of strike, we have streamlined the programme of the 2nd International Creative Industries Festival taking place from 21st March to 1st April 2022. The theme 'Creative industries for a better society' speaks directly to demands of the strike and we invite all participants to discuss precarious employment practices, unsafe workloads, as well as the gender and ethnic pay gap during two weeks of talks, workshops and performances.

Take a look at some of the exciting opportunities and calls for participation in this issue, including an invitation to a survey on academics' experiences of maintaining a public profile and support by their institutions given the importance of impact work here
 

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

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2nd International
Creative Industries Festival

 
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’. 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. 

In solidarity with the UCU strike and action short of strike, we have streamlined the programme to highlight issues related to workers' rights in the creative industries and in higher education. The theme of 'Creative industries for a better society' speaks directly to demands of the strike and we invite all participants to discuss precarious employment practices, unsafe workloads, as well as the gender and ethnic pay gap. 

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
The National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange hosts their annual showcase event on 9th March: The Power of Collaborative Action: People, Place and Planet. The workshop is devoted to supporting and showcasing great examples of collaboration between HE and the arts and cultural sectors, themes include Place-making and Levelling up, Climate Emergency and Health and Wellbeing.

​​The NCACE has also announced another session of the Knowledge Impacts Network on 16th March. The KIN meetings are designed to address the particular needs of those who work within Higher Education knowledge exchange or impact development. Relevant to all who have responsibility for activating, nurturing and reporting on knowledge exchange activities with the arts and cultural sector!
The Independent Cinema Office is looking for members for a paid advisory group for its Screening Days programme. The group will advise on the three specialised events focused on inclusion and diversity, archives, and young audiences. More information and registration for the  two upcoming information sessions about the opportunity on 23th February and 8th March here.
Opportunities
 
Teaching, learning and uses of technology in UK schools
ESRC funding to join education research programme exploring the uses of technology in teaching and learning,.or teaching and learning, with a focus on teachers and their training, supply and retention.

NCACE Senior Manager - Research, Evidence and Policy
AHRC invites arts and humanities researchers to apply for funding to collaborate with German partners who are eligible to apply to DFG.

Innovate UK smart grants
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £25 million for game-changing and commercially viable research and development (R&D) innovation that can significantly impact the UK economy. This funding is from Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation.
Members' activities
Survey on experiences of public academia and online responses

The research study aims to understand academics’ experiences of maintaining a public profile through social media/traditional media, and whether they have received any online backlash. It will also consider whether, given the importance of ‘impact’ as part of criteria for both the REF and funding bids, public academics feel appropriately supported by their institutions in undertaking this public-facing work. The researchers at Lancaster University and Oxford Brookes University seek to develop guidelines to improve conditions for public academics. More information and survey here
 
Call for collaboration: SME's in the UK Creative Industries
 As part of a NESTA funded research project Dr Mohamed Yacine Haddoud and Ian Fillis at Liverpool Business School invite managers of of SME in the creative industries to talk about post-Brexit migration challenges in attracting international workers. The researchers seek to guide the UK government in making the point-based immigration system less obstructive and more suitable to the UK creative sectors. If you are interested in this project, you can find more information and contact here.
 

Call for Papers
Caribbean Carnival Arts Conference, 1 - 3 July 2022

 
After the cancellation of Carnivals across the UK and around the world, this season is likely to see most offline events return to the streets. How has the pandemic affected Caribbean Carnival Arts and Cultures? Which Carnival practices have moved centre stage to cope with the losses, grief and disruptions of the crisis? What new forms of engagement, participation and community have emerged? The conference will bring together researchers, participants, costume designers, musicians, culinary artists, filmmakers and members of Caribbean Carnival organisations in the UK and internationally to showcase and analyse Carnival’s multifaceted manifestations. The conference is organised in a hybrid format making it possible to join the gathering in Oxford in person or online. 

The event builds on the succession of international biannual conferences on carnival arts held in London from 2006 and also seeks to promote the activities of the International Journal of Carnival Arts. It is organised in collaboration with the Creative Industries Research and Innovation Network at Oxford Brookes University and local partners. We invite submissions of abstracts up to 250 words (including format chosen, whether online, on campus or flexible, affiliations and role, and abstract). Abstracts are welcomed from all disciplines and can address the following topics, but we also welcome proposals that fall outside the list: 
 
- Power, play and pleasure in Carnival
- Transnational and –cultural relationships between the UK and global Caribbean Carnivals
- Historical perspectives and revisions of Caribbean Carnival Arts
- Oral history and archives of Caribbean Carnival in the UK
- The significance of small-scale and local Carnivals for community cohesion, education, skills development and mental health
- Under-researched areas such as culinary arts, environmental impact, dis/abilities, etc. 
- Digitization, social media platforms and counter-hegemonic uses of technology 
- Dis/continuities of virtual Carnival programmes 

 Please submit your abstract along with a short bio of no more than 150 words by the 22nd of April to hklien-thomas@brookes.ac.uk. We are excited to read your proposals and look forward to coming together to celebrate Carnival Arts and Cultures!

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