Creative Regions Summer School – Birmingham, 12th-16th July 2010

The Creative Regions Summer School is an exciting week of intense learning for postgraduate students, practitioners and policy makers interested in engaging with the current debates and research surrounding the role of the creative economy in local and regional development.

Key themes that will be explored during the Summer School are as follows:

• 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

In these webpages you can find out more about the programme and activities. For any further information please contact: creative.regions@soton.ac.uk

During the last three years, we have worked on many project and events related to the creative industries and the creative economy in UK. Thanks to the support of th Regional Studies Association we have also managed an exciting Research Network on Creative Industries, and the Regions: Relationship between places, local and regional policies and creative production. The network has addressed trends and issues around the development of the creative and cultural industries at the regional level in UK, fostering a multi-disciplinary debate among researchers, practitioners and policy makers in the field. The activities of the network - still supported by the Regional Studies Association - have now taken on a new European dimension and have migrated to www.creative-regions.eu. Here you will find more news on the network activities, events and publications.
 
The network - from which the new Summer School venture has orginated - has been initiated and promoted by Dr Roberta Comunian from the School Geography of the University of Southampton, Dr Caroline Chapain from the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies of the University of Birmingham and Nick Clifton from the Cardiff School of Management of the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff.