Prof Mark Banks
Co-Investigator
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Mark Banks is Professor of Cultural Economy (Theatre, Film & Television Studies) and as Co-investigator with CUSP part of our Art & Culture theme.
Marks’s interest is in the cultural or creative industries, where he focuses on work and employment, culture-economy relations, participation and social justice. Here, he has a particular interest in the visual arts, music and media industries, writing about cultural theory, cultural value, cities, and popular culture.
Current research is concerned with how the cultural industries and the wider ‘creative economy’ can be made more socially and (‘creatively’) just, and better linked to ecological politics, especially through the ideas of post-growth, well-being or transitional economies.
Prior to his appointment at Glasgow, he was Professor and founding Director of the CAMEo Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies at the University of Leicester. Before this I was Reader in Sociology at The Open University and also lectured at Manchester Metropolitan University, where I began my career working at the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture in the late 1990s.
A list of his publications can be found on the University of Glasgow’s website.