ICCE staff
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Staff list
Dr Victoria Alexander
V.Alexander (@gold.ac.uk)
Victoria’s research combines sociology of the arts, visual culture, sociology of organisations and culture.
Roxana Bratu
r.bratu (@gold.ac.uk)
Dr Aleksandar Brkić
a.brkic ( (@gold.ac.uk)
Aleksandar is experienced in arts management and cultural policy as a researcher, creative producer and arts manager.
Dr Paul Clements BA MA PhD
p.clements (@gold.ac.uk)
Paul is a lecturer in arts and cultural policy, spending many years working with marginalised communities.
Claire Cooke
c.cooke (@gold.ac.uk)
Claire is interested in magic, ritual, public space, performance (and its history), contemporary art and film.
Adrian De La Court
a.delacourt (@gold.ac.uk)
Originally trained as an artist and dancer, Adrian has developed a strong portfolio career in the creative industries.
Dr Cecilia Dinardi
c.dinardi (@gold.ac.uk)
Cecilia focuses on cultural policies, creative economy, heritage, cities, urban regeneration & creative methodologies.
Professor Mike Featherstone
m.featherstone (@gold.ac.uk)
Mike’s current interests are consumer culture, ageing, the body, global culture and knowledge formation.
Dr Carla Figueira
c.figueira (@gold.ac.uk)
Carla examines international cultural relations as a transdisciplinary field and is interested in areas of cultural policy.
Dr Michael Franklin
m.franklin (@gold.ac.uk)
Michael’s research investigates the conceptualisation & management of risk in the film industry & related creative businesses
Michael Hitchcock, BA Hons, DPhil
m.hitchcock (@gold.ac.uk)
Michael conducts research on cultural tourism, heritage and museology, especially with regard to Asia.
Dr Richard Hull
r.hull (@gold.ac.uk)
Richard explores social and sustainable enterprise and emerging alternatives to shareholder-focused forms of capitalism.
Oliver Kempton
o.kempton (@gold.ac.uk)
Oliver’s focus is on using social research, evaluation and analysis to help organisations understand their impact.
Dr Sylvia Lahav
s.lahav (@gold.ac.uk)
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
g.lidstone (@gold.ac.uk)
Gerald has worked internationally in arts management for 30 yrs, also recently completing a research evaluation for Sadler’s Wells
Sara Linden
s.linden (@gold.ac.uk)
Sara’s interests include city branding, gender and urban spaces, and representation of cities in the media.
Dr. Kelly Meng Parnwell
k.meng (@gold.ac.uk)
Kelly's current research focuses on international business development and strategic management in the luxury industry.
Pauline Muir
p.muir (@gold.ac.uk)
Dr Oonagh Murphy
o.murphy (@gold.ac.uk)
Oonagh’s research has explored best practice on the scalability of emerging technologies for cultural organisations.
George Musgrave
g.musgrave (@gold.ac.uk)
George researches mental health and the music industry, artistic entrepreneurship and conditions of creativity.
Siân Prime
s.prime (@gold.ac.uk)
Siân has worked with creative and social enterprises to find financial models to ensure impact and value creation.
Dr Nicola Searle
n.searle (@gold.ac.uk)
Nicola specialises in economics of intellectual property, with a focus on the creative industries and trade secrets.
Dr Martin Smith
msmit053 (@gold.ac.uk)
Martin works in the media, cultural and creative sectors in various advisory, executive, and non-executive capacities.
Dr Tomoko Tamari
t.tamari (@gold.ac.uk)
Tomoko’s interests are Japanese culture & society; consumer culture; department store & aestheticization; visual sociology and the body.