Staff in ICCE

Professor Victoria Alexander

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

Dr Katie Beswick

Katie Beswicks research interests include - performance, visual art, music, hip hop, housing, class, feminism

Dr Aleksandar Brkić

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

Dr Paul Clements BA MA PhD

Paul is a lecturer in arts and cultural policy, spending many years working with marginalised communities.

Claire Cooke

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

Dr Cecilia Dinardi

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

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 Carla Figueira

Carla examines international cultural relations as a transdisciplinary field & is interested cultural/language policies.

Dr Michael Franklin

Michael investigates the conceptualisation and management of risk in the film industry and related creative businesses

Dr Nicola Guy

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

Michael Hitchcock, BA Hons, DPhil

Michael conducts research on cultural tourism with particular regard to museums & heritage. Interests in SE Asia & China

Professor Dr Andrew Holden

Andrew Holden is Professor of Environment and Tourism at Goldsmiths, University of London. He conducts research that focusses on the environment/culture interface especially in the context of sustainable tourism, mobilities and the history of tourism.

Dr Richard Hull

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

Oliver Kempton

Oliver’s focus is on using social research, evaluation and analysis to help organisations understand their impact.

Dr Sylvia Lahav

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

Gerald Lidstone BA MA ATC Dr h. c. FRGS

Gerald teaches across four programmes in ICCE, supervises PGR, also researching in areas of cultural policy & practice

Sara Linden

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

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.

Dr Pauline Muir

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

Dr Oonagh Murphy

Oonagh’s research has explored best practice on the scalability of emerging technologies for cultural organisations

Dr George Musgrave FRSA

George studies the psychological experiences, mental health, and working conditions of musicians’ creative careers

Oliver Peterson Gilbert

Sociology of art, cultural policy, curatorial practice, ethnomusicology, cultural history, and the creative industries.

Siân Prime

Siân has worked with creative and social enterprises to find financial models to ensure impact and value creation

Dr Nicola Searle

Nicola specialises in economics of intellectual property, with a focus on the creative industries and trade secrets.

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.

Nicola Turner