The key themes that will be explored during the Summer School are:

• Understanding creative people, creative work and creative skills 
• Mapping and analysing the creative economy 
• Innovation and entrepreneurship in the creative industries 
• Creative clusters and networks
• Urban regeneration and the creative economy
• Creative class and regional economic development
• Policy perspectives: international, national, regional and local

The Creative Regions Summer School will be based on a mix of lectures, presentations, workshops and site visits.

 

You can download a more detailed timetable of the programme HERE

 

Further information and on-line registration is now available for early bird bookings
www.curs.bham.ac.uk/events/CreativeRegions_SummerSchool.shtml

 

The Creative Regions Summer School will be based on a mix of lectures, presentations, workshops and site visits. These will be delivered by both academics and practitioners.

For the year 2010, the academic team will be composed of staff from our three universities, notably: Dr Caroline Chapain, Dr Roberta Comunian, Dr Nick Clifton, Prof. Peter Sunley, Dr Lauren Andres, Dr Julie Brown and Prof. Austin Barber.

They will be complemented by contributions from representatives of  other regional and national organisations. More specifically, the 2010 Summer School will include case studies from Birmingham and the West Midlands as well as visits to cultural and creative facilities. These  local and regional examples will be discussed in the light of other UK and European contexts.