Thematic Group:
Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI)
Brazil Science Without Borders programme
Brazil Science Without Borders supports a programme of scholarships to promote the consolidation and expansion of science, technology and innovation in Brazil 'through international exchange and mobility'. The School of Management, in addition to participating in this Undergraduate Study Abroad programme, will offer two Co-tutelle PhD projects ('Sandwich PhDs') in the Creative Industries: "Making sustainable communities crafting rural futures" and "Traditional and World Music working across boundaries for sustainability".
More information: Brazil Science Without Borders programme at University of St Andrews, and Creative Industry project details.
Applications go live on Saturday 28 April 2012. Deadline for receipt of applications to UUK is Tuesday 15 May 2012.
The (CCI) thematic group researches management topics within cultural and creative settings. We take an inclusive approach to the organisations we research with and current projects are in advertising, architecture, art, craft, film, music, publishing, theatre and TV. Our interests include the functioning of labour markets in terms of skills acquisition, career entry and career transitions; career development, labour market exit and the experience of working lives in the creative industries; festival and event organisation; the role of networking, social media and the identification of taste, value and legitimacy; organising practices and their role in creative outcomes; knowledge, knowing and communities of practice in creative work and organising; the role of intellectual, social and cultural capital in the economy for symbolic goods and strategic change.
Members of the CCI are also members of the Institute for Capitalising on Creativity (ICC) which is a collaborative research institute with four Scottish partners. The ICC is led by Professor Barbara Townley at St Andrews and currently has one of the most significant ESRC projects in creative industries in the UK.
Recent CCI activities include:
- ESRC sponsored workshop on Music and Management with contributions from BBC Philharmonic, The Sage Gateshead, RSNO, Glasgow Cultural Enterprises, The Bath Festival, City of Birmingham Town Hall, CBSO, as well as academics from across Europe
- Joint Conference hosted by ICC, School of Management, University of St Andrews and the Business History Unit, London School of Economics: The Global Popular Music Business: National Historical Perspectives
- A series of seminars on music and management ('Narratives of Organizing') for the Association of British Orchestras
- "How to harness the power of nothing." Seminar on creative careers given by Dr. Dawn Bennett, Curtin University, Perth.
- Strategy development workshops for the Creative Thinking Network
- Presentations on 'Managing in Creative Settings' at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development Conference and the Chartered Management Institute Conference (Scotland), CMI/Advanced Institute of Management (UK)
- Presentations at academic Conferences including the Academy of Management (US), The British Academy of Management, European Group on Organization Studies, the International Discourse Conference and the Organization Learning and Knowledge Conference.
The group would be happy to hear from students who are interested in pursuing a PhD who have an interest/experience in one of the following: music, craft, art, design, film and media, advertising. We adopt constructionist or critical realist approaches and generally conduct qualitative research. We support PhD topics in the range listed in the first paragraph above and if you are interested in applying for a place we would welcome an informal contact. This is best achieved by email to Nic Beech (pnhb@st-andrews.ac.uk) and it would help if you could give an indication of the type of organisation and topic in which you are interested.
The CCI group includes staff members: Bill Barlow, Nic Beech, Shiona Chillas, Gail Greig, Mindy Grewar, Charles Lovatt, Charlotte Gilmore, Dimitrinka Stoyanova and Barbara Townley.
Recent Publications include:
Beech, N. (2011) 'Liminality and the practices of identity reconstruction'. Human Relations. 64(2): 285-302.
Beech, N., MacIntosh, R. & MacLean, D. (2010) 'Dialogues Between Academics and Practitioners: the role of generative dialogic encounters'. Organization Studies. 31(9/10): 1341-1367.
Beech, N., Coupland, C. & MacPhail, S. (2009) 'Anti-dialogic positioning in change stories: Bank robbers, saviours and peons', Organization, 16(3): 335-352.
Beech, N. (2008) 'On the Nature of Dialogic Identity Work'. Organization, 15(1): 51-74.
Grugulis, I. And Stoyanova, D. (2011) 'The missing middle: communities of practice in a freelance labour market'. Work, Employment and Society, 25(2): 342-351.
McKinlay, A. and Quinn, B. (2009) 'Making the bits between the adverts: Management, collective bargaining and work in commercial television, 1979-2005'. In: A. McKinlay and C. Smith (eds). Creative Labour: Working in the Creative Industries. London: Palgrave McMillan.
McKinlay A. and Smith, C. (2009) Creative Labour: Working in the Creative Industries. London: Palgrave McMillan.
McLeod, C., O'Donohoe, S. and Townley, B. (2009) 'The elephant in the room? Class and creative careers in British advertising agencies.' Human Relations, 62(7): 1011-1039.
McLeod, C., ODonohoe, S. and Townley, B. (2011). 'Pot noodles, placements and peer regard: Creative career trajectories and communities of practice in the British advertising industry.' British Journal of Management, 22(1): 114-131.
Stoyanova, D. and Grugulis, I. (forthcoming) 'Tournament careers: working in UK television' in Mathieu, C. (ed.) Careers in Creative Industries. London: Routledge.
Townley, B. & Beech, N. (eds) (2010) Managing Creativity: Exploring the Paradox. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Townley, B., Beech, N. and McKinlay, A. (2009) 'Managing in the creative industries: managing the motley crew', Human Relations, 62(7): 939-962.
Townley, B., Beech N., McKinlay, A. and Fairhurst, G. (guest eds) (2009) Special Issue Managing in the creative industries: Managing the motley crew. Human Relations 62(7).