Fair Creative Economies

As part of the £30M MyWorld programme, we are researching and supporting the development of robust, low-carbon, high inclusion, high democracy alternatives to existing practices within the creative industries.

Fair Creative Economies seeks to explore new ethical, progressive and sustainable models for creative work and the necessary regional context needed to make them a reality. The research project led by Dr Simon Moreton and Dr Liz Roberts at UWE Bristol and Prof Martin Parker and Dr Claudia Firth at University of Bristol with our PhD students Alice Quigley and Will Hunter. It is part of a much bigger project called MyWorld and is funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) .

Fair Creative Economies explores how we organise work in the creative industries. We want to identify what obstacles exist to developing new ways of creating robust, low-carbon, high inclusion, high democracy alternatives to existing business practices within the sector. To help us do this, we conduct participatory research with creatives into current alternative creative economy business models and find out what stakeholders and policymakers in the city region feel are the obstacles to supporting these alternative models.

You can visit the project website here

Project overview

Part 1:

Gathering information through interviews with organisations and policy makers in the cultural sector, and workshops with creative freelancers and organisations.

Part 2:

Working with a small number of organisations who would like to make a change in how they operate through our Creative Organisation Change Labs. We will develop an alternative organisational development programme and a collection of useful resources aka a ‘library of alternatives’.

Advisory Network

We work with an advisory network who meet quarterly. Members include representatives from the below organisations.

MyWorld is funded by UKRI’s Strength in Places fund.