Dr Robin Steedman

  • Lecturer in Creative Industries (School of Culture & Creative Arts)

Biography

Robin Steedman is a Lecturer in Creative Industries at the University of Glasgow. She is interested in global creative and cultural industries, and in questions of diversity and inequality in media production, distribution and viewership. She is particularly interested in film and other creative industries in Africa, with a current focus on Kenya and Ghana.

She studied International Development and Religious Studies at McGill University before doing an MA in African Studies at SOAS University of London. She also did her PhD at SOAS University of London where she studied the work of female filmmakers in Kenya. Before joining Glasgow, she worked as a Creative Economy Engagement Fellow at the University of Sheffield and as a Postdoc at Copenhagen Business School.

Her work has been published in journals such as Poetics, Information, Communication & Society, Cultural Trends, and Environment and Planning A. Her first book, Creative Hustling: Women Making and Distributing Films from Nairobi, is published with the MIT Press.

Publications

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2025

Steedman, Robin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1033-9318, Resario, Rashida and Langevang, Thilde (2025) ‘Squeezing money out of a rock’: diverse economies of contemporary theatre in Ghana. Cultural Trends, (doi: 10.1080/09548963.2025.2522453) (Early Online Publication)

Steedman, Robin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1033-9318 and Resario, Rashida (2025) Female film entrepreneurs in Ghana: Shirley Frimpong-Manso and Evelyn Asampana in focus. In: Dovey, Lindiwe, Agina, Añulika and Thomas, Michael W. (eds.) Contemporary African Screen Worlds. Duke University Press. ISBN 9781478094173 (doi: 10.1215/9781478060413)

Sendra, Estrella and Steedman, Robin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1033-9318 (2025) From Africa to London to the world: Film Africa’s leading role in the circulation of African cinemas. In: Petty, Sheila (ed.) African Film Festivals and Transnational Flows of Living Cultural Heritage. Series: Framing film festivals. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 101-122. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-88590-7_6)

2024

Alacovska, Ana, Steedman, Robin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1033-9318, Langevang, Thilde and Resario, Rashida (2024) The relational and redistributive dynamics of mutual aid: implications of Afro-communitarian ethics for the study of creative work. Business Ethics Quarterly, (doi: 10.1017/beq.2024.14) (Early Online Publication)

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Articles

Steedman, Robin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1033-9318, Resario, Rashida and Langevang, Thilde (2025) ‘Squeezing money out of a rock’: diverse economies of contemporary theatre in Ghana. Cultural Trends, (doi: 10.1080/09548963.2025.2522453) (Early Online Publication)

Alacovska, Ana, Steedman, Robin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1033-9318, Langevang, Thilde and Resario, Rashida (2024) The relational and redistributive dynamics of mutual aid: implications of Afro-communitarian ethics for the study of creative work. Business Ethics Quarterly, (doi: 10.1017/beq.2024.14) (Early Online Publication)

Book Sections

Steedman, Robin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1033-9318 and Resario, Rashida (2025) Female film entrepreneurs in Ghana: Shirley Frimpong-Manso and Evelyn Asampana in focus. In: Dovey, Lindiwe, Agina, Añulika and Thomas, Michael W. (eds.) Contemporary African Screen Worlds. Duke University Press. ISBN 9781478094173 (doi: 10.1215/9781478060413)

Sendra, Estrella and Steedman, Robin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1033-9318 (2025) From Africa to London to the world: Film Africa’s leading role in the circulation of African cinemas. In: Petty, Sheila (ed.) African Film Festivals and Transnational Flows of Living Cultural Heritage. Series: Framing film festivals. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 101-122. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-88590-7_6)

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Prior publications

Article

Robin Steedman, Taylor Brydges (2023) Hustling in the creative industries: Narratives and work practices of female filmmakers and fashion designers Gender, Work & Organization Crossref. (doi: 10.1111/gwao.12916)

Resario, R., Steedman, R., Langevang, T. (2023) Exploring everyday resilience in the creative industries through devised theatre: A case of performing arts students and recent graduates in Ghana International Journal of Cultural Studies Scopus - Elsevier. ISSN 1460356X 13678779 (doi: 10.1177/13678779231163606)

Steedman, R., Alacovska, A., Langevang, T., Resario, R. (2023) Imaginaries of platform entrepreneurship in the creative industries: techno-optimism and subversion in Ghanaian filmmaking Information Communication and Society Scopus - Elsevier. ISSN 14684462 1369118X (doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2022.2062252)

Langevang, T., Resario, R., Alacovska, A., Steedman, R., Amenuke, D.A., Adjei, S.K., Kilu, R.H. (2022) Care in creative work: exploring the ethics and aesthetics of care through arts-based methods Cultural Trends Scopus - Elsevier. ISSN 14693690 09548963 (doi: 10.1080/09548963.2021.2016351)

Langevang, T., Steedman, R., Alacovska, A., Resario, R., Kilu, R.H., Sanda, M.-A. (2022) ‘The show must go on!’: Hustling through the compounded precarity of Covid-19 in the creative industries Geoforum Scopus - Elsevier. ISSN 00167185 (doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.09.015)

Kennedy, H., Steedman, R., Jones, R. (2021) Approaching public perceptions of datafication through the lens of inequality: a case study in public service media Information Communication and Society Scopus - Elsevier. ISSN 14684462 1369118X (doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2020.1736122)

Alacovska, A., Langevang, T., Steedman, R. (2021) The work of hope: Spiritualizing, hustling and waiting in the creative industries in Ghana Environment and Planning A Scopus - Elsevier. ISSN 14723409 0308518X (doi: 10.1177/0308518X20962810)

Todd Hartman, Helen Kennedy, Robin Steedman, Rhianne Jones (2020) Public perceptions of good data management: Findings from a UK-based survey Big Data & Society Crossref. (doi: 10.1177/2053951720935616)

Steedman, R., Kennedy, H., Jones, R. (2020) Complex ecologies of trust in data practices and data-driven systems Information Communication and Society Scopus - Elsevier. ISSN 14684462 1369118X (doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2020.1748090)

Robin Steedman (2019) Nairobi-based middle class filmmakers and the production and circulation of transnational cinema Poetics Crossref. (doi: 10.1016/j.poetic.2018.11.002)

Book

Robin Steedman (2023) Creative Hustling: Women Making and Distributing Films from Nairobi The MIT Press Robin Steedman.

Book Section

Kennedy, H., Steedman, R., Jones, R. (2022) Researching Public Trust in Datafication: Reflections on the Deliberative Citizen Jury as Method Transforming Communication Scopus - Elsevier. ISSN 27309339 27309320 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-96180-0_17)

Steedman, R. (2021) Promoting the film industry in Kenya: State support versus entrepreneurial innovation Developing Creative Economies in Africa: Spaces and Working Practices Scopus - Elsevier. ISBN 9781000441000 9780367481940 (doi: 10.4324/9781003191681-2)

Steedman, R. (2019) Screening violence and reconciliation: The production and circulation of films about the Kenyan post-election violence of 2007/2008 Cultural Archives of Atrocity: Essays on the Protest Tradition in Kenyan Literature, Culture and Society Scopus - Elsevier. ISBN 9780429552762 (doi: 10.4324/9780429262166-21)

Steedman, R. (2018) Nairobi-based female filmmakers: Screen media production between the local and the transnational A Companion to African Cinema Scopus - Elsevier. ISBN 9781119100577 9781119100317 (doi: 10.1002/9781119100577.ch14)

Other

() Something Necessary dir. by Judy Kibinge (review) Robin Steedman. (doi: doi:10.1017/asr.2015.108)

() Stories of Our Lives dir. by Jim Chuchu (review) Robin Steedman. (doi: doi:10.1017/asr.2016.22 )

Supervision


Robin Steedman