Mark Taylor

Mark Taylor

@markrt.co.uk

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Mark Taylor
@markrt.co.uk

what a lineup in this thread

David Wright@davwright.bsky.social

Out today, from editors Bård Kleppe, Jaka Primorac, Mikka Pyykkönen and me. The book combines cross-national writing teams and focussed case studies across Europe to examine the rhetoric and reality of creative work. A contents thread 👇 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

taylorfrancis.comCreative and Cultural Work in Europe | Bård Kleppe, Jaka Primorac, MiiThis book gathers evidence and case studies from various parts of Europe and across the different sectors that comprise the creative industries, including the

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Prof Dave O'Brien
@drdaveobrien.bsky.social

Come at do a PhD with Sam Hind, Riza Batista-Navarro and me! "Artificial Inequality? AI and its impact on the UK Creative Industries" Deadline 30th March www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

findaphd.comArtificial Inequality? AI and its impact on the UK Creative Industries (CreativeAI Studentship) at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.comPhD Project - Artificial Inequality? AI and its impact on the UK Creative Industries (CreativeAI Studentship) at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Creative PEC
@creativepec.bsky.social

📈 New research published today by Creative PEC shows that the Creative Industries account for almost a tenth of UK firms classified as having ‘high-growth potential’, higher than both the Life Sciences (5.1%) and Advanced Manufacturing (2.4%). 🔗 shorturl.at/cWxlF

shorturl.atHigh-Growth Potential Firms in the UK's Creative Industries - Creative Industries Policy and Evidence CentreThis new report demonstrates that the Creative Industries account for almost a tenth of UK firms classified as having ‘high-growth potential’.
Mark Taylor
@markrt.co.uk

this closes in two weeks. the offer to email me with any Qs remains open!

Mark Taylor@markrt.co.uk

work with me and @drdaveobrien.bsky.social as part of @creativepec.bsky.social! we're recruiting a postdoc to work on the arts, culture and heritage sectors using quantitative methods. please share, please feel free to email me directly with any Qs! jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Sheffiel...

jobsite.sheffield.ac.ukResearch Associate in Creative Industries (Quantitative)Research Associate in Creative Industries (Quantitative)

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Creative PEC
@creativepec.bsky.social

The deadline to submit papers for the Creative PEC Research Symposium 2026 is fast approaching. Send your extended abstract of ~500 words to research@pec.ac.uk by Monday 2nd February. For more information and to register for the Symposium, email research@pec.ac.uk.

Creative PEC@creativepec.bsky.social

📢 Call for submissions: The Creative PEC Research Symposium 2026 will take place on 28–29 April at Newcastle University Business School and will provide a forum for researchers to present their latest work on the economics of the cultural and creative industries. Find out more: shorturl.at/9xuYX

pec.ac.ukCreative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre Research Symposium 2026The Creative PEC Research Symposium will be held at Newcastle University Business School 28-29 April 2026. Register or submit a paper.
Mark Taylor
@markrt.co.uk

another quick boost for this - closes 18 Feb. please send to quantitatively-oriented culture people in your life! they can email me!

Mark Taylor@markrt.co.uk

work with me and @drdaveobrien.bsky.social as part of @creativepec.bsky.social! we're recruiting a postdoc to work on the arts, culture and heritage sectors using quantitative methods. please share, please feel free to email me directly with any Qs! jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Sheffiel...

jobsite.sheffield.ac.ukResearch Associate in Creative Industries (Quantitative)Research Associate in Creative Industries (Quantitative)
Mark Taylor
@markrt.co.uk

culture is bad for you is £6:59! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177810/

manchesteruniversitypress.co.ukManchester University Press - Culture is bad for youCulture is bad for you - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Culture is bad for you by Orian Brook
Manchester University Press@manchesterup.bsky.social

Our 2025 Christmas Gift Guide is now live! Shop selected titles with 40% OFF as part of our Christmas Sale promotion for a limited time only. Whether it's sport, folklore, music or Jane Austen you're after there's a book here for everyone on your list: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/11...

Mark Taylor
@markrt.co.uk

i once sat next to someone on a flight who watched Diary of a CEO for 14 hours

HK@hkesvani.bsky.social

Listening to podcasts on a plane’s in flight entertainment system is real sicko behaviour The only person I have seen who listened to a podcast on a plane also owned a Diary of a CEO branded journal

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Susan Oman
@suoman.bsky.social

Do a funded PhD with me! We are looking for projects at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary enquiry into AI and inequalities! www.linkedin.com/posts/susan-...

linkedin.comPower and Difference in the time of responsible AI at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com | Susan OmanDo a funded PhD with me! We are looking for projects at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary enquiry into AI and inequalities! "Your doctoral research project will be designed by you to respond to...
Mark Taylor
@markrt.co.uk

just to echo Robin: *23*? (i’m on my way home from a performance at an NPO hosted by another NPO, let’s see what i get asked to do)

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Mark Taylor
@markrt.co.uk

funded quants x cultural policy x sociology PhDs don’t come up very often. this looks great! please circulate!

Christiaan Monden@cmonden.bsky.social

Great (paid) PhD opportunity. Excellent environment, conditions, and supervisors. And a topic close to my heart. (Selfish reason for promoting this: I fear there won't be enough concerts for retired me to go to. Geen dag zonder Bach.) vacatures.knaw.nl/job/The-Hagu...

vacatures.knaw.nlPhD position "Is the audience for classical music concerts fading out?"PhD position "Is the audience for classical music concerts fading out?"
Mark Taylor
@markrt.co.uk

(free) registration for @ctjournal.bsky.social's Global Dialogues conference is now open! en.dialogo-global2025.pucp.edu.pe. i realise not many people who follow me on here are in or near Lima; please share if anyone you know is! (keynotes - ~13:00 and 20:00 UK time each day - will be livestreamed)

en.dialogo-global2025.pucp.edu.peInternational ConferenceThis conference is part of the Global Dialogues series of Cultural Trends magazine. In this 2025 edition, the event will be held at the PUCP, Lima - Peru.
Mark Taylor
@markrt.co.uk

London comms job! work with me! £31kish. feel free to DM with any Qs

Creative PEC@creativepec.bsky.social

If you'd like to help us support the UK's creative industries, we're currently hiring a London-based Comms and Events Officer. Please do apply if it matches your interests and experience. Closing date is 7 September. Full details here: pec.ac.uk/job_entries/...

pec.ac.ukWe're hiring a Comms and Events Officer - Creative Industries Policy and Evidence CentreCreative PEC, working in partnership with Newcastle University and the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) is recruiting for a Communications and Events Officer Contract Type:  Fixed Term Working Pattern:  Fu...

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Creative PEC
@creativepec.bsky.social

Replying to @creativepec.bsky.social

They argue for a data-first culture where ‘bad news’ is not seen as a threat, and for investing in an infrastructure that allows for independent collection and analysis of data. Read the guest blog: pec.ac.uk/blog_entries...

pec.ac.ukWhen Data Hurts: What the Arts Can Learn from the BLS Firing - Creative Industries Policy and Evidence CentreRead the blog from Douglas Noonan and Joanna Woronkowicz about the dangers of dismissing or discarding data that doesn't fit the narrative.

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Manchester University Press
@manchesterup.bsky.social

The benefits of culture to health, education and community are championed, but can culture ever do wrong? 'Culture is Bad for You' exposes systems of precarity, and the exclusion of women, people of colour, and working-class people: www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival... #EdBookFest #booksky

edbookfest.co.ukOrian Brook, Dave O’Brien & Mark Taylor: Is Culture Bad For You?From Tue 19 Aug - The benefits of culture to health, education and community are championed, but can culture ever do wrong? First published in 2020, academics and creative industry experts Orian…

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Orian Brook
@orianbrook.bsky.social

Anyone making their way to Edinburgh (or already nearby!), I *think* that there are still tickets available - come here me, @markrt.bsky.social and @drdaveobrien.bsky.social chat about whether Culture is still bad for you www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

edbookfest.co.ukOrian Brook, Dave O’Brien & Mark Taylor: Is Culture Bad For You?From Tue 19 Aug - The benefits of culture to health, education and community are championed, but can culture ever do wrong? First published in 2020, academics and creative industry experts Orian Brook...
Manchester University Press@manchesterup.bsky.social

Checked out the @edbookfest.bsky.social? Don't miss Vince Cable (Eclipsing the West), @orianbrook.bsky.social, @markrt.bsky.social & @drdaveobrien.bsky.social (Culture is bad for you) and @aldersonday.bsky.social (Presence). 9-24th August at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social:

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Mark Taylor
@markrt.co.uk

British Academy's just announced its new Fellows. 19 Oxbridge, 29 other Russell Group, 9 elsewhere (2xSt Andrews, Aberdeen, Courtauld, Institute for Historical Research, Leicester, Surrey, UEA, Reading), 0 post-92. cool well-functioning higher education section we've got

Mark Taylor
@markrt.co.uk

Edinburgh! 19 August! 15:30! Spiegeltent! Book! www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival... (per the advertising, i promise @orianbrook.bsky.social and I will be slightly higher up than @drdaveobrien.bsky.social throughout)

edbookfest.co.ukOrian Brook, Dave O’Brien & Mark Taylor: Is Culture Bad For You?From Tue 19 Aug - The benefits of culture to health, education and community are championed, but can culture ever do wrong? First published in 2020, academics and creative industry experts Orian Brook...
Manchester University Press@manchesterup.bsky.social

Checked out the @edbookfest.bsky.social? Don't miss Vince Cable (Eclipsing the West), @orianbrook.bsky.social, @markrt.bsky.social & @drdaveobrien.bsky.social (Culture is bad for you) and @aldersonday.bsky.social (Presence). 9-24th August at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social:

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Mark Taylor
@markrt.co.uk

what a team. this’ll be great!

Media and Communication @ University of Leeds@leedsunimedia.bsky.social

📢 Exciting news! The University of Leeds and the University of Warwick have together secured one of just ten AHRC Doctoral Focal Awards for Creative Bridges – a major new interdisciplinary PhD programme focused on sustainability and diversity in the screen industries. 🧵

Mark Taylor
@markrt.co.uk

Peru! enormously excited for this. get those abstracts in!

Cultural Trends Journal@ctjournal.bsky.social

We’re excited to announce Dr Mark Taylor as keynote at the Cultural Trends Global Dialogue this November in Lima. His research on inequality in culture & creative industries offers vital perspective to our dialogue. Proposals due 14 July! 📄 Full call: www.linkedin.com/pulse/announ...

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Cultural Trends Journal
@ctjournal.bsky.social

ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) and Cultural Trends invite you: Cultural Policy and Sustainable Development: A Global Dialogue Lima, Peru | 5–7 November 2025 Full announcement and CFP: www.linkedin.com/posts/cultur...

linkedin.comANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS: Cultural Policy and Sustainable… | Cultural Trends JournalANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) and Cultural Trends invite you Cultural Policy and Sustainable Development: A Global Dialogue Lima, Peru 5-7 Novembe...

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Orian Brook
@orianbrook.bsky.social

Just a reminder that if you are in Edinburgh you can hear me, @drdaveobrien.bsky.social, antonio cuyler, Beata Kowalczyk and Ines Ruiz Alvarado chaired by @klloyd.bsky.social talking about all things inequality in creative work on Tuesday evening at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social

efi.ed.ac.ukCulture is Bad for You - Edinburgh Futures InstituteA panel event on the mechanisms of exclusion in cultural work and how they are mirrored in other national and policy contexts
Mark Taylor
@markrt.co.uk

today!

Prof Dave O'Brien@drdaveobrien.bsky.social

CULTURE IS BAD FOR YOU LIVE! @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social 27th March 6.15-7.45pm, free entry if you buy the new edition of the book! AND Gab from the white pube is interviewing us too! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/culture-is...

eventbrite.co.ukCULTURE IS BAD FOR YOU - Orian Brook, Dave O'Brien and Mark TaylorJoin us to celebrate the updated edition of CULTURE IS BAD FOR YOU, with the 3 authors in conversation with Gabrielle de la Puente

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Prof Dave O'Brien
@drdaveobrien.bsky.social

Some weekend reading! @petersoc.bsky.social @markrt.bsky.social & I blogging for @creativepec.bsky.social about our recent paper on who gets film funding from the BFI pec.ac.uk/blog_entries... (spoilers- there are lots of inequalities)

pec.ac.ukClass inequalities in film funding - Creative Industries Policy and Evidence CentreProfessor Dave O'Brien writes about class inequalities in film funding in the UK using data from the British Film Institute (BFI).
Mark Taylor
@markrt.co.uk

Ruoxi's the best

Creative PEC@creativepec.bsky.social

"Creative self-employed workforce in England and Wales" Read our latest guest blog, where Dr Ruoxi Wang from University of Sheffield breaks down the data on self-employed creative workers by geographic location including an interactive dashboard display. Read it here: buff.ly/Jl4njBb

Mark Taylor
@markrt.co.uk

god i love quants

YouGov@yougov.co.uk

We polled 'Trigger's broom' (or the 'Ship of Theseus' thought experiment, if you prefer): if you replace all the components of your broom, is it still the same broom? It is still the same broom: 29% It is no longer the same broom: 63% yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...

Mark Taylor
@markrt.co.uk

Manc! culture's still bad for you!

Manchester University Press@manchesterup.bsky.social

Join us at @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social to celebrate the new edition of CULTURE IS BAD FOR YOU. @orianbrook.bsky.social, @drdaveobrien.bsky.social & Mark Taylor will be in conversation w Gabrielle de la Puente about their call to transform the creative industries: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/culture-is...

eventbrite.co.ukCULTURE IS BAD FOR YOU - Orian Brook, Dave O'Brien and Mark TaylorJoin us to celebrate the updated edition of CULTURE IS BAD FOR YOU, with the 3 authors in conversation with Gabrielle de la Puente
Mark Taylor
@markrt.co.uk

more than *twenty* parties? what supercomputer could possibly attempt such a feat

Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social

Strikes me this bit from the TBI's new report is redolent of a wider, ongoing tendency to de-emphasise (and therefore normalise) the essential ideology of the far right, but hey-ho. (Source: institute.global/insights/pol...)

Mark Taylor
@markrt.co.uk

it's MA reference season again. one university has asked me to rate one of my students on 22 different scales, including "commitment to public/community service" and "energy and drive". (i'm doing it, obviously, but who designed this?)

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Orian Brook
@orianbrook.bsky.social

ICYMI: I wrote a report with @suttontrust.bsky.social @drdaveobrien.bsky.social @markrt.bsky.social about social inequalities in creative education and creative work. Lots of good stuff in here, confirming/putting numbers on things that we might guess. Some key findings:

Prof Dave O'Brien@drdaveobrien.bsky.social

Couple of highlights from the @suttontrust.bsky.social new report 'A Class Act: Social mobility and the creative industries' www.suttontrust.com/our-research... I'll focus on Higher Education (which @orianbrook.bsky.social @markrt.bsky.social & I worked on)

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Prof Dave O'Brien
@drdaveobrien.bsky.social

This drops tomorrow, including new research from @markrt.bsky.social @orianbrook.bsky.social & me on the challenge of (& lack of!) social mobility into creative higher eduction

The Sutton Trust@suttontrust.bsky.social

Hello Bluesky 👋 Tomorrow, our new research will explore the relationship between class, education, and creative professions. It will take a closer look at access to creative degrees and elitism within the creative industries. Look out for the report, out tomorrow 👇

Mark Taylor
@markrt.co.uk

i'm in Australia. that means it's 10:30 in the morning, and i can leave the telly onwhile i'm doing work. a strange and delightful experience to be watching election coverage at this time of day

Mark Taylor
@markrt.co.uk

i like how this is as janky as twitter (i promise i’ll do things like “add a profile picture” and “add a biography” at some stage)

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