Prof Kate Oakley
University of Glasgow
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Kate Oakley is Professor in Culture and Creative Arts at the School of Culture & Creative Arts, University of Glasgow. Former Co-Investigator with CUSP, she is involved in our research theme on the role of the arts and culture in developing visions of prosperity.
Kate Oakley is Professor in Culture and Creative Arts at the School of Culture & Creative Arts, University of Glasgow. She was previously Director of Research at the School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds, Head of the Centre for Cultural Policy and Management at City University, London and a Visiting Professor at the University of the Arts London.
Research
Her research interests include the politics of cultural policy, labour in the cultural industries, and inequality. She came into academia following careers as a journalist, market researcher and civil servant and for 15 years she ran a successful consultancy and research business in the cultural sectors. Her portfolio of projects included: work on cultural and creative industry strategies; work on the social impacts of culture and the arts; work on skills and employment in the cultural industries and cultural policy advice at a variety of spatial levels.
Publications
For more recent publications, please see the University of Glasgow website.
Books
Oakley K and M Banks 2020 (Eds). Cultural Industries and the Environmental Crisis; New Approaches for Policy. Springer.
Aiello G, Tarantino M and K Oakley 2016 (Eds). Communicating the City. Peter Lang.
O’Brien D and K Oakley 2016. Cultural Policy, Routledge Major Works Edition. Routledge.
Oakley K and D Bell 2015. Cultural Policy. Routledge.
Oakley K, Hesmondhalgh D, Lee D and M Nisbett 2015. Culture, Economy and Politics: the case of New Labour. Palgrave.
Journal Articles
Oakley K and Ward J 2018 (Ed). Creative Economy, Critical Perspectives. Cultural Trends (special edition).
Oakley K and Ward J 2018. The art of the good life: culture and sustainable prosperity. Cultural Trends, 27 (1): 4-17.
Oakley,K, Ball M and M Cunningham 2018: Everyday Culture and the Good Life. CUSP Working Paper No 9. Guildford: University of Surrey.
Oakley K, Ward J and I Christie 2017. Engaging the imagination: ‘new nature writing’, collective politics and the environmental crisis. Environmental Values, 27 (6).
Oakley K and J Ward 2017. The art of the good life: culture and sustainable prosperity”, Cultural Trends, Vol 27(1).
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