Staff in ICCE

Professor Victoria Alexander

Programme Convenor, BA Arts Management
V.Alexander (@gold.ac.uk)

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

Dr Aleksandar Brkić

Lecturer
a.brkic ( (@gold.ac.uk)

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

Dr Paul Clements BA MA PhD

Lecturer
p.clements (@gold.ac.uk)

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

Claire Cooke

Lecturer in Arts Management
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

Director, MA Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship and Director, SYNAPSE
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

Senior Lecturer in Cultural Policy
c.dinardi (@gold.ac.uk)

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

Ashley Evenson

Lecturer
A.Evenson (@gold.ac.uk)

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

Professor Mike Featherstone

Professor in Sociology
m.featherstone (@gold.ac.uk)

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

Dr Carla Figueira

Director MA Cultural Policy, Relations and Diplomacy | Director MA Tourism and Cultural Policy
c.figueira (@gold.ac.uk)

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

Dr Michael Franklin

Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship
m.franklin (@gold.ac.uk)

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

Michael Hitchcock, BA Hons, DPhil

Professor
m.hitchcock (@gold.ac.uk)

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

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

Director, MA Social Entrepreneurship, ICCE
r.hull (@gold.ac.uk)

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

Oliver Kempton

Visiting Tutor
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

Lecturer
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

Director of the Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship (ICCE)
g.lidstone (@gold.ac.uk)

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

Sara Linden

Lecturer
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

Lecturer in Luxury Brand Management
k.meng (@gold.ac.uk)

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

Jonathan Meth

Associate Lecturer
j.meth (@gold.ac.uk)

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

Dr Pauline Muir

Lecturer
p.muir (@gold.ac.uk)

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

Dr Oonagh Murphy

Lecturer in Arts Management
o.murphy (@gold.ac.uk)

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

Dr George Musgrave FRSA

Lecturer
g.musgrave (@gold.ac.uk)

George researches mental health and the music industry, artistic entrepreneurship and conditions of creativity.

John Newbigin, OBE

Visiting Fellow
j.newbigin (@gold.ac.uk)

John was awarded an OBE for “services to creative industries and the arts” in the Queen’s 2015 New Years Honours L

Oliver Peterson Gilbert

Post-Doctoral Research Assistant for UNCHARTED project
o.petersongilbert (@gold.ac.uk)

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

Siân Prime

Deputy Director of the Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship, Academic Lead: Enterprise
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

Digital Economy Fellow
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

Visiting Fellow
msmit053 (@gold.ac.uk)

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

Dr Tomoko Tamari

Senior Lecturer in Sociology
t.tamari (@gold.ac.uk)

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