ICCE staff

Professor Victoria Alexander

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

Dr Aleksandar Brkić

Aleksandar is experienced in arts management and cultural policy as a researcher, creative producer and arts manager.

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.

Adrian De La Court

Originally trained as an artist and dancer, Adrian has developed a strong portfolio career in the creative industries.

Dr Cecilia Dinardi

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

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 and is interested in areas of cultural policy.

Dr Michael Franklin

Michael’s research investigates the conceptualisation & management of risk in the film industry & related creative businesses

Michael Hitchcock, BA Hons, DPhil

Michael conducts research on cultural tourism, heritage and museology, especially with regard to Asia.

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 has worked internationally in arts management for 30 yrs, also recently completing a research evaluation for Sadler’s Wells

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.

Pauline Muir

Dr Oonagh Murphy

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

George Musgrave

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

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; department store & aestheticization; visual sociology and the body.