How does access to creative activities, including through digital and social media, support the development of creative and other skills?

Background

In the creative industries (CI) there is a need to evidence approaches to better grow workforce skills and productivity explicitly addressing the skills gaps and shortages taking into account the complex dynamics of CI workforces, (e.g. including freelancers, contractors and employees in a range of organisational types from SMEs through to FTSE corporations).

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    Funded by: Innovate UK

  • Future Skills Club - developing a physical and digital 'ground up' learning community to upskill and empower the creative industries

    The UK is a creative nation. Renowned throughout the world for our ideas, inventions, culture and technology. Creativity is fundamental to all our future successes. It is the number one future skill we all need, accordin...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

  • Centre of Excellence for Policy and Evidence in the Creative Industries

    The UK's creative industries are a national economic strength. Since the turn of the decade, employment, exports and output growth has easily outstripped that in the rest of the economy. Yet, behind this rapid growth lie...

    Funded by: UUI

  • Supporting Young People to Become International Creative Talents: Educational Enterprise Collaborations between Shanghai and Liverpool

    Graduate job readiness and the mismatch of expectations between employers and educational providers on the role and requirements of industry training provision are key issues facing the creative industries. This project ...

    Funded by: FIC

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    The project addresses the development of creative skills through formal training, work experience, and industry partnerships.

  • The Value of Creative Growth: making growth work for creative enterprise

    This early-career leadership fellowship intends to advance the support and evaluation of the creative economy through exploring and testing more holistic measures of economic growth that are more resonant with the wider ...

    Funded by: AHRC

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    Funded by: Innovate UK

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    The UK is world-renowned for its creative industries in areas as diverse as music, animation, and the performing and visual arts. However, the emergence of a new generation of social, pervasive and affective ICT promises...

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