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UCD Research @ucdresearch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🎬🎭 Dr Victoria Durrer, UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy, will work with colleagues in Ireland and the UK on a new Research Ireland / AHRC project that addresses a significant gap in our understanding of migration and mobility in the screen industries. www.ucd.ie/research/new...

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Six networking awards to boost UK-Ireland collaboration in the creative economy

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 25/03/2026

what a lineup in this thread

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Creative PEC @creativepec.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

📈 New research published today by Creative PEC shows that the Creative Industries account for almost a tenth of UK firms classified as having ‘high-growth potential’, higher than both the Life Sciences (5.1%) and Advanced Manufacturing (2.4%). 🔗 shorturl.at/cWxlF

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High-Growth Potential Firms in the UK's Creative Industries - Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre

This new report demonstrates that the Creative Industries account for almost a tenth of UK firms classified as having ‘high-growth potential’.

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 04/02/2026

this closes in two weeks. the offer to email me with any Qs remains open!

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Creative PEC @creativepec.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The deadline to submit papers for the Creative PEC Research Symposium 2026 is fast approaching. Send your extended abstract of ~500 words to research@pec.ac.uk by Monday 2nd February. For more information and to register for the Symposium, email research@pec.ac.uk.

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 27/01/2026

another quick boost for this - closes 18 Feb. please send to quantitatively-oriented culture people in your life! they can email me!

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 23/01/2026

work with me and @drdaveobrien.bsky.social as part of @creativepec.bsky.social! we're recruiting a postdoc to work on the arts, culture and heritage sectors using quantitative methods. please share, please feel free to email me directly with any Qs! jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Sheffiel...

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Research Associate in Creative Industries (Quantitative)

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Alice Borchi @aliceborchi.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Funded PhD opportunities thread! 1) Creative Bridges: Are you passionate about shaping the future of the screen industries? Applications are now open for Creative Bridges CDT, an AHRC-funded doctoral training programme from the University of Leeds and University of Warwick. creativebridges-cdt.ac.uk

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Creative Bridges – Connecting Diversity and Sustainability for UK Screen Industries

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 27/10/2025

i once sat next to someone on a flight who watched Diary of a CEO for 14 hours

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 11/10/2025

just to echo Robin: *23*? (i’m on my way home from a performance at an NPO hosted by another NPO, let’s see what i get asked to do)

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Oliver Mantell @olivermantell.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Nice to see two excellent academic collections on audiences, data and policy [including my only (!) academic article] in new (more affordable) editions: www.routledge.com/A-Reader-on-... www.routledge.com/Audience-Dat... Credit to @sdjhadley.bsky.social for editing/making them happen…

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 10/10/2025

i'm looking through some old teaching materials, and i'd forgotten i'd made this

meme template where Worf's sceptical of one thing but enthusiastic about a second. the first is a poster for the movie the Green Book; the second is the HM Treasury Green Book on appraisal and evaluation

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 10/10/2025

funded quants x cultural policy x sociology PhDs don’t come up very often. this looks great! please circulate!

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Cultural Trends Journal @ctjournal.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Free registration is still open for A Global Dialogue on Cultural Policy and Sustainable Development. Join the conversation. 🔗 en.dialogo-global2025.pucp.edu.pe #CulturalPolicy #GlobalSouth

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International Conference

PUCP and the scientific journal Cultural Trends organize the 2025 edition of the International Conference

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 18/09/2025

(free) registration for @ctjournal.bsky.social's Global Dialogues conference is now open! en.dialogo-global2025.pucp.edu.pe. i realise not many people who follow me on here are in or near Lima; please share if anyone you know is! (keynotes - ~13:00 and 20:00 UK time each day - will be livestreamed)

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International Conference

This conference is part of the Global Dialogues series of Cultural Trends magazine. In this 2025 edition, the event will be held at the PUCP, Lima - Peru.

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 13/08/2025

London comms job! work with me! £31kish. feel free to DM with any Qs

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Creative PEC @creativepec.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

They argue for a data-first culture where ‘bad news’ is not seen as a threat, and for investing in an infrastructure that allows for independent collection and analysis of data. Read the guest blog: pec.ac.uk/blog_entries...

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When Data Hurts: What the Arts Can Learn from the BLS Firing - Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre

Read the blog from Douglas Noonan and Joanna Woronkowicz about the dangers of dismissing or discarding data that doesn't fit the narrative.

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

The benefits of culture to health, education and community are championed, but can culture ever do wrong? 'Culture is Bad for You' exposes systems of precarity, and the exclusion of women, people of colour, and working-class people: www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival... #EdBookFest #booksky

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Orian Brook, Dave O’Brien & Mark Taylor: Is Culture Bad For You?

From Tue 19 Aug - The benefits of culture to health, education and community are championed, but can culture ever do wrong? First published in 2020, academics and creative industry experts Orian…

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 18/07/2025

British Academy's just announced its new Fellows. 19 Oxbridge, 29 other Russell Group, 9 elsewhere (2xSt Andrews, Aberdeen, Courtauld, Institute for Historical Research, Leicester, Surrey, UEA, Reading), 0 post-92. cool well-functioning higher education section we've got

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Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

CfP! We Want More: Music / Sociology! Call for papers | International Popular Music Studies Conference at @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social 8th April 2026, deadline for abstracts 1st Oct 2025 www.eur.nl/en/eshcc/eve...

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We Want More: Music / Sociology!

Join us to explore the sociology of (popular) music – from AI to activism, labour to care. Call for papers open until 1 October 2025.

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 03/07/2025

what a team. this’ll be great!

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 03/07/2025

Peru! enormously excited for this. get those abstracts in!

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Cultural Trends Journal @ctjournal.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) and Cultural Trends invite you: Cultural Policy and Sustainable Development: A Global Dialogue Lima, Peru | 5–7 November 2025 Full announcement and CFP: www.linkedin.com/posts/cultur...

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ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS: Cultural Policy and Sustainable… | Cultural Trends Journal

ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) and Cultural Trends invite you Cultural Policy and Sustainable Development: A Global Dialogue Lima, Peru 5-7 Novembe...

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Orian Brook @orianbrook.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Just a reminder that if you are in Edinburgh you can hear me, @drdaveobrien.bsky.social, antonio cuyler, Beata Kowalczyk and Ines Ruiz Alvarado chaired by @klloyd.bsky.social talking about all things inequality in creative work on Tuesday evening at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social

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Culture is Bad for You - Edinburgh Futures Institute

A panel event on the mechanisms of exclusion in cultural work and how they are mirrored in other national and policy contexts

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 14/03/2025

Manc! culture's still bad for you!

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Creative PEC @creativepec.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Today, we launch our latest State of the Nations report, 'Skills Mismatches in the UK's Creative Industries'. Download Here: buff.ly/3WVDpI4 1/8

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 31/01/2025

more than *twenty* parties? what supercomputer could possibly attempt such a feat

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Creative PEC @creativepec.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Hi, we are the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre! We bring together independent research and policy recommendations for the UK's Creative Industries. Learn more about what we do by following us or visiting our website: tinyurl.com/2fhwbdjz

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 28/11/2024

it's MA reference season again. one university has asked me to rate one of my students on 22 different scales, including "commitment to public/community service" and "energy and drive". (i'm doing it, obviously, but who designed this?)

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 17/11/2024

i've got Glastonbury tickets and i'm very excited about it

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Orian Brook @orianbrook.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

ICYMI: I wrote a report with @suttontrust.bsky.social @drdaveobrien.bsky.social @markrt.bsky.social about social inequalities in creative education and creative work. Lots of good stuff in here, confirming/putting numbers on things that we might guess. Some key findings:

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Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

This drops tomorrow, including new research from @markrt.bsky.social @orianbrook.bsky.social & me on the challenge of (& lack of!) social mobility into creative higher eduction

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 05/11/2024

i'm in Australia. that means it's 10:30 in the morning, and i can leave the telly onwhile i'm doing work. a strange and delightful experience to be watching election coverage at this time of day

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 18/10/2024

time to try a bit harder at this website

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 01/07/2023

i like how this is as janky as twitter (i promise i’ll do things like “add a profile picture” and “add a biography” at some stage)

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