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David Wright

@davwright.bsky.social
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Researching and teaching about creative industries and cultural policy at the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies, SCAPVC, University of Warwick. warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/ccmps… If you want me, I'll be at the cricket.

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David Wright @davwright.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It was a bit weird that it took John Curtice to drop this truth bomb in the Today piece on this earlier, as opposed to the BBC correspondent.
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David Wright @davwright.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Excellent. Bit of a long walk to the gag at the end but worth it. 3*
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Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
New research position: bringing arts and culture to the centre of the economy. Research Fellow at UCL IIPP, working with me and the team, and partners in the UK and Brazil on how cultural value is measured, governed and funded. Closes 11 September ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
AI policies are repeating every mistake of plagiarism policies: AI use is being framed as a binary of permitted or cheating, when for second-language writers it is a question of learning, says Özgür Çelik ow.ly/MhSY50ZG4rN
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David Wright @davwright.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
After a near two decade career teaching and researching a range of topics at a top ranked global university, the question I'm asked most - and which I still struggle to answer - is 'Does the word count include the bibliography?'
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
'A Russell Group university will no longer use ubiquitous anti-cheating tools provided by Turnitin because of concerns that the company might use students’ work to train artificial intelligence.' Maybe time for UK universities to develop and commercialise their own tools?
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Southampton dumps Turnitin over use of students’ work to train AI
Academic integrity giant denies accusations as university declines to renew contract in favour of ‘other options’
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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The Wicker Dan @oddballuk.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Nottingham Puppet Festival today Only saw a few acts because of work but it was still fun, the heat showed a little mercy and everything seemed a big hit with kids
Two people in costumes (so not technically puppets) hugging each other. The one facing away is covered in a costume made from strips of white, yellow and red fabric. The one facing the camera is in blue with bits of red and wearing a head with blue antlers and a large black mouth held open in an expression of awe.
A large bee lady puppet controlled by someone hidden in the lower body. The bee lady has a black hat and is waving her arms.A large tree/plant giant with grassy hair and beard and dandelions growing from its scalp. Controlled by a man inside and two women outside manipulating the arms.A large, mechanical looking green parrot puppet on a moveable base with someone sat inside to move the wings from below.
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David Wright @davwright.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
This is what I want to hear when Burnham gets off that train youtu.be/vgI9hjRzmq0?...
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Do you intend to abolish first class rail travel?
YouTube video by Tom Cleaver
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David Wright @davwright.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Tune!
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David Wright @davwright.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Given the Guardian best books brouhaha, here's a thing I wrote (in 2012!) about lists and literary taste. Still kind of stands up. The history bit is interesting if I say so myself 🤔 wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/51...
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Literary taste and list culture in a time of "endless choice" - WRAP: Warwick Research Archive Portal
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David Wright @davwright.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
No shade on the research itself which no doubt is careful and rigorous on its terms but I always find coverage of studies like this a bit depressing. As if we're only allowed beautiful things when there is a grimly utilitarian reason. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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Arts and cultural engagement ‘linked to slower pace of biological ageing’
Research from UCL suggests visiting art galleries or museums, singing and painting can help improve health outcomes
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David Wright @davwright.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
And people say this platform is in decline.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
Three cool scientists introduce their work "Our new theory has been submitted to a peer-reviewed journal, but we feel its depths and intricacies are best appreciated on the limited-edition vinyl release."
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David Wright @davwright.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
God bless the cultural intermediaries, I say.
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David Wright @davwright.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
We conclude with reflections on what the evidence tells us. Notably, it indicates that challenging conditions of creative work are not inevitable. If states consider the creative economy important, then there are routes to supporting this work and these workers. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
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Conclusion | 22 | Supporting Creative and Cultural Work in Europe | Da
This concluding chapter summarizes the arguments, evidence, and analysis presented in the previous chapters. It focusses on how questions of definition and
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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
This makes me happy and incredibly sad for what we let go … for how impossible it would be to set up anything with the intellectual, pedagogic, democratic vision of the OU now www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Milton Keynes statue honours Open University founder
The statue celebrates the life of an MP who was behind the creation of the university.
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David Wright @davwright.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Out today, from editors Bård Kleppe, Jaka Primorac, Mikka Pyykkönen and me. The book combines cross-national writing teams and focussed case studies across Europe to examine the rhetoric and reality of creative work. A contents thread 👇 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
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Creative and Cultural Work in Europe | Bård Kleppe, Jaka Primorac, Mii
This book gathers evidence and case studies from various parts of Europe and across the different sectors that comprise the creative industries, including the
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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I think we need to do an edgy, single-take Netflix drama, set in a school in the north of England, about the online radicalisation of Nick Robinson
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David Wright @davwright.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Thanks to our contributors, reviewers and to @bookseditorial.bsky.social and team at @routledgebooks.bsky.social for their help. If you work at a university, why not order a copy for your library? And if you don't, and you want to read anything, drop me a line. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
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Creative and Cultural Work in Europe | Bård Kleppe, Jaka Primorac, Mii
This book gathers evidence and case studies from various parts of Europe and across the different sectors that comprise the creative industries, including the
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David Wright @davwright.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Out today, from editors Bård Kleppe, Jaka Primorac, Mikka Pyykkönen and me. The book combines cross-national writing teams and focussed case studies across Europe to examine the rhetoric and reality of creative work. A contents thread 👇 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
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Creative and Cultural Work in Europe | Bård Kleppe, Jaka Primorac, Mii
This book gathers evidence and case studies from various parts of Europe and across the different sectors that comprise the creative industries, including the
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral PhD Studentship at UCL and the V&A: 'Invisible Hands: Migrant Labour and British Craft in the 18th Century' Ignore the 'top ten' hype; focus on the ace resources, environment and support. Deadline 15 April. #Skystorians
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David Wright @davwright.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
This is a really important point. No-one has been able to explain to me how we can fairly and consistently distinguish between an AI generated essay (formulaic and generic in its structure, phrasing and contents) and...
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Andrew Parkin @parkinac.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If you’re wondering what the big deal is about Jürgen Habermas (who died yesterday), or if you’ve never heard of him until now, you’re not going to learn much from the short newspaper obituaries, which are focusing on more on what he said about current events than his philosophy. 1/
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Burnden Park, Bolton, 1946: the deal that cost father and son's lives in 'forgotten disaster'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The deal that cost father and son's lives in Burnden Park disaster
A family remembers how their loved ones never returned from the fatal 1946 stadium crush in Bolton.
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David Wright @davwright.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
"Why are creative graduates willing to do this? It’s because – and this is a critical point for all graduates and, indeed, any human being – money isn’t necessarily the only reward from work." wonkhe.com/blogs/creati...
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Creative arts graduates aren't the problem – they're the subsidy
Johnny Rich argues that low graduate salaries in the arts aren't a sign of poor courses – they're a sign of an industry that profits from exploiting its workforce
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
'Let’s return to that question about the supposed poor returns for creative arts graduates. The answer lies in the fact that they are effectively subsidising the creative industries that they’re working in – they are...selling their labour for less than they might earn in other sectors'. 2/3
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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
This forgets there were serious attempts to replace Churchill with an otter after Dunkirk
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
This is cruel to the young people concerned, self-destructive for the UK and will not win over a single Reform voter.
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David Wright @davwright.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I am very much on this bus.
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Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies @ccmpswarwick.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Pleased to hear Drs. Melanie Stavrou, Hao Xie and Younggeon Byun talk about their work on Decolonisation as Cultural Justice.
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Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies @ccmpswarwick.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Great to see this article from our PhD student Pengyun Lu now out, open access, in @ejcs-journal.bsky.social "Between ‘audience lords’ and ‘rich fathers’: Triadic relational labour and contingent moral improvisation among Chinese tech creators on UGC platforms" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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David Wright @davwright.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
These were great. And in the end, weirdly hopeful. I learned a lot. And I bet the Christmas parties at the Centre for Existential Risk are pretty fun.
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
"no longer be accepting AI art, including on bottles and pump clips, in order to try to protect local artists from losing out on work." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Newcastle pubs ban AI art from breweries to protect local creatives
As two pubs in Newcastle ban AI art, artists discuss the impact it can have on creatives.
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Benjamin Myers @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Fascinating discussion around class on Radio 4's Free Thinking feat. @adellestripe.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Free Thinking - Working Class Creativity - BBC Sounds
Depictions of working class life on TV and in culture and how they've changed.
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Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Another example (just like the Essex campus closure) of how refusing to have a structured and effective HE policy destroys the rest of the government’s place-based goals www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Shattered dreams: How the battle for Sunderland’s glass centre turned into a political flashpoint
Custodian University of Sunderland says renovation costs of £45m are too high and building must be pulled down. Not without a fight, say locals, who believe they’re being taken for fools
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David Wright @davwright.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Excellent. I always preferred 'morbid symptoms'. And it's a much better name for a pub quiz team.
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
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France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US
European governments are moving away from U.S. tech giants, opting for domestic or open-source alternatives.
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Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies @ccmpswarwick.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Going live for our CDI stream on digital intimacies.
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Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Collaborative PhD on art and/as R&D with me and the Serpentine gallery - tracking how value, labour, knowledge and resources move through art-technology production networks. I'll happily chat to anyone you think would be good for (and would benefit from) this. www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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Mapping Creative R&D in Art-Technology Ecosystems | University of Westminster, London
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible. It leads on "sharply contested narratives" It has a dramatic skew to the US government It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue
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Louise O'Boyle @louoboyle.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Thrilled to share some brilliant news 🎉 Ulster University has been awarded an AHRC Creative Communities Co-Lab Policy Network Award 2026 Huge thanks to Arts & Humanities Research Council, @northumbriauni.bsky.social and our incredible partners across Northern Ireland More soon!
Title of project and image of project lead in bottom right hand corner
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David Wright @davwright.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Looking forward to working, as part of the AHRC Creative Communities Co-Lab Policy network, on Strengthening the Cultural Foundations of the West Midlands creativecommunities.uk/research_art...
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
And that is: asking a student to do a literature review isn’t really about the output, the final product. It’s about learning the process - assessing the quality of the evidence as you read it, learning how your question may evolve as you engage with the literature, learning how to spot SALIENCE 1/2
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
'“Embedded precarity” in higher education is diminishing research quality as staff on short-term contracts favour “safer” work to secure future employment, according to the author of a new report.' Royal Geographical Society maps important connections between precarity and research topics. 1/3
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Use of fixed-term posts ‘stifling more critical research’
Scholars with short contracts seen as more likely to favour doing ‘safer’ work, with ‘serious ramifications’ for their disciplines
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 09/01/2026
‘There’s a sort of alarming and mysterious aspect to this wave in AI: that thing about the nature of the black box. We don’t know why it’s coming to the conclusions it’s coming to.’ John Lanchester on the AI bubble, on the podcast: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...
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Will the AI bubble burst?
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 07/01/2026 · 55m
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
My cartoon for the latest @newscientist.com
The neuroscience laboratory is closed for the holidays, but a staff member is on hand to answer the Consciousness Hotline.

Scientist on the phone in an otherwise deserted office:
"So, to summarise: No, I can't say with complete certainty that you exist. But yes, you probably ought to go back to work after the holidays anyway."
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Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Globally, the cultural and creative industries contribute to 3.1% of GDP and 6.2% of employment. Yet we can't think of them only as an industry. Great to speak last month at #CIMAM to museum curators and artists about our work on Public Value of the Arts. Watch the keynote ➡️ buff.ly/yUF9QFO
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ArtWorks Alliance @artworksalliance.uk · 18/12/2025
How do small, focussed-arts activities change how people relate to a place and to one another, and what gets lost when cultural value is judged only by scale, numbers, or economic return?
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Where is Participatory and Community Arts in the Hodge Review?
The independent review of Arts Council England (ACE), led by Baroness Margaret Hodge, is now part of the policy landscape in which participatory and community arts will have to operate for the next several years. The review is candid about bureaucracy, uneven cultural investment, weakened local cultural infrastructure, and the need to rebuild trust in the funding system. It also points towards a structural shift, including stronger local and regional decision-making and a more explicit relationship between culture and place.
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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
EXCL: An agreement to rejoin Erasmus – the EU’s student exchange programme – set to be announced on Wednesday as part of UK government’s drive towards closer relations with Brussels. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme
Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say
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