Research

CCPR operates with a broad understanding of cultural policy as an institutional space shaped by the conjunction of culture, politics and economics. Our current staff research agenda focuses on the following issues:

• Creative economy policies
• Media management and media economics
• Media regulation and cultural policy in the UK and EU
• Media and representations of business
• Media, journalism and sport
• Journalism

Current externally-funded research in CCPR

ESRC-funded project on Multi-platform media and the digital challenge: Strategy, Distribution and Policy

AHRC-funded project on The UK Film Council: A Case Study of Film Policy in Transition

AHRC-funded project on Supporting Creative Business: Cultural Enterprise and its Clients

RSE-funded seminars on Securing Scotland’s Voice: Strategic Responses to the Digital Media Revolution in the National Press 

Previous externally-funded research in CCPR

Creative Scotland-funded project on 21st Media Literacy

AHRC-funded project on Music and Dance - Beyond Copyright Text

OECD-funded research on Audiovisual Trade and Cultural Policy

AHRC-funded project on Public Understanding of Business: Television, Representation and Entrepreneurship

AHRC-funded project on The Scottish Arts Council 1967-2007: arts governance and national identity

AHRC-funded project on Creativity: policy and practice. A study of government, the BBC and UK Film Council

European Commision-funded study of Indicators for Media Pluralism in the Member States

Carnegie Trust-funded project on Film Criticism Research