Cultural Industries

Submission to Scottish Parliament inquiry into Broadcasting, Screen and News

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:05:28 GMT

Drawing on their ESRC-funded project ‘Public Service Media and the Digital Challenge: Purpose, Value and Funding’, Gillian Doyle (PI), Raymond Boyle (CoI) and Kenny Barr (RA) provided a submission to the Scottish Parliament

New Research on Social Media Strategy and the English Premier League.

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 13:56:43 GMT

Raymond Boyle (with Adolfo Nieto) has a new book chapter entitled Understanding The Premier League Social Strategy in the just published Social Media in Global sport: Strategies and Practice edited by Emilio Fernandez-Pena and Andrew Billings (2026).

Congratulations to Rosemary James-Beith

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:23:46 GMT

Congratulations to Rosemary James-Beith who successfully defended her thesis 'Making it Together - Communities of Care in Scotland's Craft Ecology'.

Cultural Industries through the lens of Diversity

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 08:59:19 GMT

Doris Ruth Eikhof delivered the opening keynote to the international symposium “Cultural Industries through the Lens of Diversity: actors, issues, practices," at Université Paris 8 (Nov 20-21).

Launch of Design Otherwise

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 09:00:00 GMT

In October 2025, we launched the University of Glasgow’s first Arts & Humanities spin-out, Design Otherwise. Led by Co-Directors Professor Doris Ruth Eikhof and Dr Morven Fraser-Walther (for GU Holdings).

Congratulations to Zein Oweis

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 13:21:17 GMT

Congratulations to Zein Oweis who successfully defended her thesis 'The Representation of Persons with Disabilities in Jordanian Media' in late November 2025.

Shanghai Journalism Review interviews Philip Schlesinger

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 12:02:22 GMT

In a lengthy interview published in Chinese (translated by CCPR PhD Wei Zhao, now lecturing at Beijing Metropolitan University), Philip Schlesinger reflected on the post-public sphere and the turn towards digital neo-regulation. He was also quizzed about the relevance and challenge of ethnographic research on regulators.

Suryansu Guha joins Cultural Industries

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 10:29:54 GMT

On December 1st we welcomed Suryansu Guha who joins us on a 2-year British Academy International Fellowship.

Three recent talks from Philip Schlesinger

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 10:28:16 GMT

Co-organiser and co-chair with Martin Kretschmer, CREATe ‘Roundtable on AI and Regulation’, where also presented ‘Riding the whirlwind: a proving ground for regulatory innovation’, Data Science and AI Festival, Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow, 29 October 2025.

What about the workers? Mismatches in urban cultural policy

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 10:09:47 GMT

Cities are more than concrete infrastructures designed by architects, urban planners or policy-makers. Artists and creatives have much to contribute to the collective imagination and affective experience of urban life.