People of the School of Creative Management

Abigail Webster

Abigail investigates how the state shapes the administrative infrastructures of cultural organisations.

Dr Ariane Agunsoye

Ariane’s research focuses on the impact of financialization on everyday life.

Professor Victoria Alexander

Victoria’s research combines sociology of the arts, visual culture, sociology of organisations and culture.

Karla Barnacle-Best

Karla has worked for over 30 years as an arts manager across theatre, live art, visual art and literature.

Dr Ada Maria Barone

Ada Maria’s research focuses on the psychological mechanisms underlying consumers’ sustainable choices and behaviour

Dr Katie Beswick

Katie Beswick’s research interests include - performance, visual art, music, hip hop, housing, class, feminism

Dr Chris Brauer

Dr Chris is a practitioner-first public academic focused on AI, lean and green economy, and human behaviour

Dr Aleksandar Brkić

Alex is creatively balancing between the worlds of arts management and cultural policy research, teaching and practice.

Professor Ivano Cardinale

Ivano Cardinale is developing a structural approach to political economy, drawing on economic and social theory

Brian Cepparulo

Brian's research focuses on the economic consequences of Covid-19 government policies.

Claire Cooke

I am interested in magic, ritual, public space, performance (and its history), contemporary art and film.

Dr Nuria Cortes-Romero

Nuria focuses on tourism as a cross-phenomenon related to cultural policy, leisure, urban regeneration, and localization

Dr Cecilia Dinardi

Cecilia focuses on cultural policies, creative economy, heritage, cities, urban regeneration & creative methodologies

Dr Rachel Doern

Much of Rachel’s research examines the cognitions, emotions and behaviours of entrepreneurs in adverse conditions.

Ashley Evenson

Ashley is Lecturer of Creative Enterprise for the Institute of Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship (ICCE) and the Programme Facilitator for Synapse.

Professor Mike Featherstone

Mike’s current interests are consumer culture, ageing, the body, global culture and knowledge formation.

Dr Shuo Feng

Shuo studies alternative luxury and underrepresented, marginalised, and alternative communities

Dr Tiziana Foresti

Tiziana's research focuses on history of economic thought and economic history.

Dr Cassie Gilbert

Cassie's focus is making employability an integral part of all IMS programmes.

Dr Nigel Guenole

Nigel specialises in strategic leadership assessment and people analytics.

Dr Nicola Guy

Nicola’s research looks at exhibition-making and museum practices as a means of the production of space

Dr Richard Hull

Richard explores social and sustainable enterprise and emerging alternatives to shareholder-focused forms of capitalism.

Tricia Jenkins

Dr Lin Jiang

Lin’s research focuses on corporate finance and corporate governance issues.

Dr Vikram Kapoor

Vikram’s research focuses on consumer identity projects, stigmatized subpopulations, and religion and consumption.

Dr Ratna Khanijou

Ratna studies collective consumption, routines, sustainable practices and brand relationships

Dr Sylvia Lahav

Sylvia remains interested in the way in which museums of art use textual explanation to interpret their collections

Dr Andrés Lazzarini

Andrés’ research areas include the History of Economic Thought, Epistemology of Economics (Classical, Marginalist, Post-Keynesian and Evolutionary Theories) and Economic Development.

Dr Franziska Kiki Leutner

Kiki specialises in Individual Differences and Computational Psychometrics, and their application in industry.

Sara Linden

Sara’s interests include city branding, gender and urban spaces, and representation of cities in the media

Dr Annemijn Loermans

Annemijn studies differences in the cognitive representation of abstract concepts (e.g. time, future selves, brands) and explores how these differences drive our (consumer) behaviour, motivation, well-being and emotions.

Mark McCulloch

Mark’s work focuses on professional identity/development (pracademia) and pedagogy in marketing education.

Dr. Kelly Meng Parnwell

Kelly's current research focuses on international business development and strategic management in the luxury industry.

Jonathan Meth

Jonathan has over 25 years’ experience as a Senior Arts manager working internationally.

Austin Milne

A practice-based researcher, Austin investigates the practical and ethical implications of new business models in the arts.

Dr Henry Morgan

Henry's research explores the role of digital platforms in popular music cultures and the mediation of identities.

Dr Pauline Muir

Pauline's research interests are in culture, religion & include a focus on congregational singing in Africa megachurches

Dr Oonagh Murphy

Dr. Oonagh Murphy is redefining how cultural organisations and civic society navigates the digital age

Dr George Musgrave

Interdisciplinary sociologist of culture, researching musicians' psychosocial working lives

Alex Pickering

Alex’s interests cover digital and traditional media, portfolio management, marketing strategy and consumer behaviour.

Siân Prime

Siân has worked globally with cultural, creative and social enterprises to develop sustainable, equitable models.

Dr Tomás Rotta

Tomás Rotta specialises in theoretical and applied Political Economy, with expertise in coding and quantitative methods

Dr Nicola Searle

Nicola specialises in innovation and IP, with a focus on the creative industries, trade secrets and research security.

Dr Martin Smith

Martin works in the media, cultural and creative sectors in various advisory, executive, and non-executive capacities

Dr Tomoko Tamari

Tomoko’s interests are Japanese culture & society; consumer culture; visual culture; technology and the body.

Luciana Velloso

Luciana studies how actors and institutions shape and are shaped by our current media landscape.

Professor Ragupathy Venkatachalam

Ragupathy's research focuses on the interface between computation and economics, economic dynamics, discrimination, causal inference, history and methodology of economics.

Dr Marco Vianna Franco

Marco is a historian and philosopher of economics interested in environmental sustainability.

Elena Yuan

Elena Yuan is a lecturer and practitioner in arts and event management.

Dr Ivan Zupic

Ivan is interested in how digital technologies are changing strategy & innovation and bringing new research methods into management research.