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Cultural Work and Higher Education Cultural Work and Higher Education Editedby Daniel Ashton BathSpaUniversity,UK and Caitriona Noonan UniversityofSouthWales,UK Introduction,selectionandeditorialmatter©DanielAshton andCaitrionaNoonan2013 Individualchapters©Respectiveauthors2013 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 978-1-137-01393-4 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noportionofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, SaffronHouse,6–10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorizedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. Theauthorshaveassertedtheirrightstobeidentifiedastheauthorsofthis workinaccordancewiththeCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. 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Contents ListofTables vii NotesonContributors viii CulturalWorkandHigherEducation 1 DanielAshtonandCaitrionaNoonan Part I TheDynamicsofCulturalWork 1 MakingWorkers:HigherEducationandtheCultural IndustriesWorkplace 25 KateOakley 2 MakingYourWay:EmpiricalEvidencefromaSurveyof 3,500Graduates 45 EmmaPollard Part II CulturalandCreativeIndustriesandthe Curriculum 3 PrecariouslyMobile:TensionsbetweentheLocal andtheGlobalinHigherEducationApproaches toCulturalWork 69 SusanLuckman 4 NoLongerJustMakingtheTea:MediaWorkPlacements andWork-BasedLearninginHigherEducation 87 RichardBerger,JonathanWardleandMarketaZezulkova 5 MediaEnterpriseinHigherEducation:ALaboratory forLearning 110 AnnetteNaudin Part III IdentitiesandTransitions 6 SmashingChildlikeWonder?TheEarlyJourneyinto HigherEducation 133 CaitrionaNoonan v vi Contents 7 NegotiatingaContemporaryCreativeIdentity 154 StephanieTaylorandKarenLittleton 8 IndustryPractitionersinHigherEducation:Values, IdentitiesandCulturalWork 172 DanielAshton Part IV ThePoliticsofAccess 9 CreativeNetworksandSocialCapital 195 DavidLee 10 TheCulturalIndustriesinaCriticalMulticultural Pedagogy 214 AnamikSaha 11 ‘WhatDoYouNeedtoMakeItasaWomaninThis Industry?Balls!’:WorkPlacements,Genderandthe CulturalIndustries 232 KimAllen Afterword:FurtherandFutureDirectionsforCulturalWork andHigherEducation 254 DanielAshtonandCaitrionaNoonan Index 264 Tables 11.1 Researchparticipants 239 vii Contributors Kim Allen is Research Fellow in the Education and Social Research Institute(ESRI)atManchesterMetropolitanUniversity,UK.Beforethat shewasSeniorResearchFellowattheInstituteforPolicyStudiesinEdu- cation (IPSE) at London Metropolitan University, UK. A feminist and sociologistofeducation,Kim’s research focuses broadlyon inequalities of social class and gender within educational spaces, with a particu- lar focus on young people’s career aspirations and transitions into the creative industries. Kim is co-investigator on the Economic and Social Research (ESRC) funded project ‘Celebrity Culture and Young People’s ClassedandGenderedAspirations’(http://www.celebyouth.org/). Daniel Ashton is Senior Lecturer at Bath Spa University, UK and teaches on the media communications and creative media practice degree courses. His research addresses the links between cultural work andhighereducationinrelationtoidentity,employabilityandcultural workforce issues. His work appears in: Convergence; Journal of Cultural Economy; Journal of Education and Work; Information Technology and Peo- ple;MediaEducationResearchJournal;andArt,DesignandCommunication inHigherEducation.HeisalsoontheeditorialboardsofDigitalCulture& EducationandMediaEducationResearchJournal. Richard Berger is Associate Professor at the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice (CEMP), Bournemouth University, UK. He is also editor oftheMediaEducationResearchJournal.Richard’smainresearchinterests areinliteraryadaptation,pedagogyandliteracy. David Lee is Lecturer in Documentary in the Institute of Communi- cations Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. David’s research focuses oncreativelabour,copyright,culturalproduction,televisionstudiesand cultural policy. He is currently a co-investigator on two major research grants: the ESRC-funded study ‘Communicating Copyright: An Explo- rationofCopyrightDiscoursesintheDigitalAge’andtheAHRC-funded project ‘Cultural Policy under the Labour Government, from 1997 to 2010’. Before academia, David worked in television production, policy viii NotesonContributors ix research and consultancy. This included working at the BBC within current affairs and documentary production, on programme strands suchasNewsnight,PanoramaandTheMoneyProgramme. Karen Littleton is Professor of Psychology in Education at the Open University, UK, where she directs the Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology. Karen’s research focuses on the signifi- cance of talk for learning, development and creativity. Her previous publications include Collaborative Creativity (with Dorothy Miell) and Contemporary Identities of Creativity and Creative Work (with Stephanie Taylor). Susan Luckman is Associate Professor and Associate Head of School attheSchoolofCommunication,InternationalStudiesandLanguages, University of South Australia, Australia. She was a foundation member of the ARC Cultural Research Network. She is the author of Locating Cultural Work: The Politics and Poetics of Rural, Regional and Remote Cre- ativity; co-editor of an anthology on creative music cultures and the globaleconomy(SonicSynergies,2008);authorofnumerousbookchap- ters, peer-reviewed journal articles and government reports on creative culturesandindustries. AnnetteNaudinisSeniorLecturerinCreativeandMediaEnterpriseand is an Enterprise Education Fellow of the National Centre for Graduate Entrepreneurship.Annettedevelopedherentrepreneurialexperienceby settingupandrunningherownsuccessfulcreativebusiness,butsheis now firmly set on an academic career and is undertaking a PhD at the CentreforCulturalPolicyStudies,UniversityofWarwick,UK,exploring culturalentrepreneurship. Caitriona Noonan is Lecturer in Media, Culture and Communication at the Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries, University of SouthWales,UK.Herresearchinterestsincludeculturalpolicydecision- making,theconceptofthe‘creativecity’,andproductionculturesand professional identity. Her work has appeared in the International Jour- nal of Cultural Policy, Media History and the European Journal of Cultural Studies.SheisalsoontheeditorialboardoftheMediaEducationResearch Journal. Kate Oakley is Professor of Cultural Policy at the University of Leeds, UK and Visiting Professor at the University of the Arts London. Her
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