Fresh thinking for the creative, cultural and community sectors
Fresh thinking for the creative, cultural and community sectors
We love to help you identify, think about, understand and create solutions to wicked problems.
Our expertise includes
We love to help you identify, think about, understand and create solutions to wicked problems.
Our expertise includes
We are researchers and consultants with international expertise in policy research and evaluation, course development and delivery and business management within the creative, cultural and community sectors.
Consultancy
We have expertise is social and culturally focused resilient and sustainable entrepreneurship. We can help you with rethi
We are researchers and consultants with international expertise in policy research and evaluation, course development and delivery and business management within the creative, cultural and community sectors.
Consultancy
We have expertise is social and culturally focused resilient and sustainable entrepreneurship. We can help you with rethink your business models and strategies, positioning you to maximise your opportunities.
Research and evaluation
We believe the best leadership is reflexive and open to change. Our approaches to research and evaluation are participatory and aim to facilitate deep learning in order to design better solutions and approaches.
Teaching and facilitation
We are skilled and experienced higher education teachers and community facilitators. We use participatory techniques to help devise students or communities think deeply about topics. source and analyse information and identify critical issues.
We have expertise in curriculum development and assessment for undergraduate and masters level and short courses for entrepreneurs in creative industry management, cultural policy and creative research methods.
Jennie has worked internationally in the higher education sector teaching and researching creative industries and festival entrepreneurship, leadership, and cultural policy. Her research interests focus on arts and festivals as influential institutions within urban cultural policy and on questions of cultural inclusion. She has published
Jennie has worked internationally in the higher education sector teaching and researching creative industries and festival entrepreneurship, leadership, and cultural policy. Her research interests focus on arts and festivals as influential institutions within urban cultural policy and on questions of cultural inclusion. She has published on festivalisation, cultural ecosystems, creative leadership, digital media's role in connecting diasporic communities, data for decision-making and the business of festival management.
She is a research fellow at the Creative Research and Innovation Centre (CRAIC) at Loughborough University London where she has worked on two projects:
Jennie has an Executive MBA and a PhD in cultural political economy. She has extensive experience as a senior manager and consultant within the UK cultural sectors and in voluntary sector development. She has worked as a consultant and expert advisor with the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, Arts Council England, the British Council (India), Youth Music and East Midlands Cultural Consortium, amongst others advising on cultural policy, creative economy and widening participation. She is a guest lecturer at the Universities of Glasgow and Sheffield.
She was a member of the senior management team at the Phoenix Arts Centre in Leicester where she had responsibility for marketing and customer services and oversaw the transformation of communications at the start of the digital era.
Krista Blair has over 20 years’ experience working in capacity building, project development and management, and
research and evaluation. As researcher, she has worked with UK charities and international NGOs to develop and
test new initiatives in academic and consultancy settings.
She has extensive expertise as a charity consultant and mana
Krista Blair has over 20 years’ experience working in capacity building, project development and management, and
research and evaluation. As researcher, she has worked with UK charities and international NGOs to develop and
test new initiatives in academic and consultancy settings.
She has extensive expertise as a charity consultant and manager, using research and
evidence to support policy, advocacy and service development.
Her consultancy work has included partnerships development and programme design related to tackling social isolation
and worklessness; supporting early years charities in organisational development and income generation;
capacity building for organisations working with people with complex needs; developing
evaluation frameworks for capacity-building organisations; and providing organisational support to Women’s Aid organisations.
Prior to moving to the U.K, she worked in print journalism and for the House of Commons in Canada, and provided
research and evaluation support to an NGO in Africa.
Dr Emily Bradfield is an independent consultant and researcher who supports people to reimagine evaluation and manage projects creatively. She uses colour, words and images in her Creative Capture® commissions (Emily’s unique style of visual note-taking), which include: University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership; Angl
Dr Emily Bradfield is an independent consultant and researcher who supports people to reimagine evaluation and manage projects creatively. She uses colour, words and images in her Creative Capture® commissions (Emily’s unique style of visual note-taking), which include: University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership; Anglia Ruskin University; and University College London. Emily also works part-time as Charity Director for Arts and Minds, a small Cambridge-based arts and mental health charity.
Emily's expertise includes community engagement; research and evaluation; and cultural leadership. She is passionate about bridging the gap between research and practice, advocating arts for social change and weaving creativity throughout research, evaluation and practice. Her cross-disciplinary approach embraces qualitative, participatory and creative methods, with a particular interest in the fields of arts and health; social gerontology; and creative ageing. She has experience in experienced in community engagement, strategic leadership and events management and is an experienced HE teacher.
Emily holds a PhD in Creative Ageing (University of Derby) and an MSc in Cultural Events Management (De Montfort University). Emily founded the British Society of Gerontology’s Creative Ageing Special Interest Group in 2019, and is a member of the Arts Health Early Career Research Network. She has published on the policy challenges of creativity, on creative ageing and the Dia del los Muertos festival.
Dr Caitlin McDonald is an is an award-winning researcher, a strategist with 10+ years’ experience across the private and public sectors researching and advising on sociotechnical impacts, and an artist whose work exploring the personal through the digital has been featured in several international art exhibitions.
Her current research foc
Dr Caitlin McDonald is an is an award-winning researcher, a strategist with 10+ years’ experience across the private and public sectors researching and advising on sociotechnical impacts, and an artist whose work exploring the personal through the digital has been featured in several international art exhibitions.
Her current research focuses on the power of the creative industries to act as an innovation catalyst across the whole of the economy, and on the role of arts and culture as key indicators of a thriving society.
Dr Sara Lara Marquez-Gallardo is Senior Lecturer in Creative Industries at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK where she is programme leader for the MA Fashion Management with Marketing. She leads and teaches modules on fashion, sustainability and the circular economy with a focus on global value chains and supervises MA students wo
Dr Sara Lara Marquez-Gallardo is Senior Lecturer in Creative Industries at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK where she is programme leader for the MA Fashion Management with Marketing. She leads and teaches modules on fashion, sustainability and the circular economy with a focus on global value chains and supervises MA students working in the area of fashion and sustainability.
Alongside her academic work, she has developed research projects exploring digital change across music, publishing, contemporary art and fashion. Her current research projects are concentrated on sustainability in the creative industries and circular economy, particularly in relation to fast fashion value chains and the possibilities of virtual reality to tackle waste in the production processes. For example, by examining how Web 3 can help improve sustainability in the global value chain of fashion brands. Sara also delivers modules on fashion, sustainability and the circular economy with a focus on global value chains.
As an expert in managing innovation in the creative industries, Sara has been commissioned to execute numerous multi-market studies for clients such as Google and Danone.
Jordan, J, Dasgupta, R.K. and Hitchen, G. (2023) Mapping innovation in India’s creative industries: an ecosystem framework. Cultural Trends. https://doi.org/10.1080/09548963.2023.2217416
Jordan, J and Lahiri, I. (2023) Digital Leisure as Sites of Diasporic Solidarity in B. Sharp, R. Finkel & K. Dashper (eds) Leisure in the Pandemic: Re-imagining Interaction and Activity during Crisis, Routledge
Baker, V. and Jordan, J., 2022. Finding the sweet spot: critiquing a cultural ecosystems approach to civic cultural strategy making. Journal of Cultural Economy, https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2022.2041464
Jordan, J., 2021. Cultural closure and social mobility: a critical examination of festival governance structures as exclusive social spaces. Annals of Leisure Research, pp.1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2021.1927768
Jordan, J. and Chan, H.M., 2021. More than a “Chinese Century”: the case of International Film Festival & Awards Macao. Event Management
https://doi.org/10.3727/152599521X16288665119567
Jordan, J. and Jindal, R., 2020. Problematising Philanthropy in the UK Cultural Sector. In R. Granger (ed) Value Construction in the Creative Economy (pp. 67-84). Palgrave Macmillan.
Jordan, J. (2016) Focusing on Finnish Festivals in Silvanto, S. (ed) Festivals in Finland, Helsinki: Kulttuuripoliittisen tutkimuksen edistämissäätiö, pp. 212-217
Jordan, J. (2016) Festivalisation of Contemporary Life in Newbold, C. and Jordan, J. (eds) Focus on World Festivals, Oxford: Goodfellow Publishers pp.6-18
Jordan, J. (2015) Festival Leadership in Newbold et al. (eds) Focus on Festivals, Oxford: Goodfellow.
Gray, C. and Jordan, J. (2011) Managing adversity in the British art support system, Cultural Policy Update (1), Amsterdam: The Boekman Foundation
A Good Practice Guide and Future Priorities report resulting from our evaluation of the Work.Live.Leicestershire (WiLL) Building Better Opportunities employability project
Reframing Innovation Data in the Creative Industries follows up on Detecting Dark Matter Data, research undertaking for for Creative Informatics and CRAIC Loughbough that asked what data is collected about the creatve industries and how it is used for decison support. In the second paper we ask how we could think differently about innovation to enable the dark matter data to be collected
The Creative Industries in India Mapping Study for UKRI India/AHRC was a situational analysis of the innovation and growth within India's creative and cultural sector value chains that found huge potential for collaboration between the UK and India in CreaTech, sustainable textiles and more.
Evaluation of the DCMS / Local Government Association Cultural Pathfinder programme
Evaluation of the impact of the partnerships developed by British Art Show 6 in Nottingham
Action research for Youth Music into the feasibility of creating a regional MusicLeader CPD network in the East Midlands
Research into the feasibility of a Cultural Observatory for the East Midlands (in partnership with cultural sector thinktank Comedia) and development of a marketing and communications strategy for the business plan
Evaluation of Defra’s £7m Infrastructure Investment Programme for the Third Sector and, subsequently, the development of a rural partnership development toolkit, Progression through Partnerships: a diagnostic toolkit.
Data analysis for Arts Council England funded research: Festivals and the Creative Region
Evaluation of the social impact of the Corby / Kettering Youth Music Action Zone.
Download copies of our reports and papers here (those we can freely share)
Detecting Dark Matter Data McDonald and Jordan 2023 (pdf)
DownloadIndian-Creative-Industries-Mapping Summary Jan-2023 (pdf)
DownloadThe WiLL Project Future Priorities Report,April 2023 (pdf)
DownloadThe WiLL Projects Good Practice Guide April 2023 (pdf)
DownloadMapping innovation in India s creative industries an ecosystem framework (pdf)
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