David Wright
@davwright.bsky.social
Researching and teaching about creative industries and cultural policy at the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies, SCAPVC, University of Warwick.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/ccmps/staff/david/
If you want me, I'll be at the cricket.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/ccmps/staff/david/
If you want me, I'll be at the cricket.
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My cartoon for the latest @newscientist.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
My cartoon for the latest @newscientist.com
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Globally, the cultural and creative industries contribute to 3.1% of GDP and 6.2% of employment. Yet we can't think of them only as an industry.
Great to speak last month at #CIMAM to museum curators and artists about our work on Public Value of the Arts.
Watch the keynote ➡️ buff.ly/yUF9QFO
Great to speak last month at #CIMAM to museum curators and artists about our work on Public Value of the Arts.
Watch the keynote ➡️ buff.ly/yUF9QFO
December 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Globally, the cultural and creative industries contribute to 3.1% of GDP and 6.2% of employment. Yet we can't think of them only as an industry.
Great to speak last month at #CIMAM to museum curators and artists about our work on Public Value of the Arts.
Watch the keynote ➡️ buff.ly/yUF9QFO
Great to speak last month at #CIMAM to museum curators and artists about our work on Public Value of the Arts.
Watch the keynote ➡️ buff.ly/yUF9QFO
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How do small, focussed-arts activities change how people relate to a place and to one another, and what gets lost when cultural value is judged only by scale, numbers, or economic return?
Where is Participatory and Community Arts in the Hodge Review?
The independent review of Arts Council England (ACE), led by Baroness Margaret Hodge, is now part of the policy landscape in which participatory and community arts will have to operate for the next several years. The review is candid about bureaucracy, uneven cultural investment, weakened local cultural infrastructure, and the need to rebuild trust in the funding system. It also points towards a structural shift, including stronger local and regional decision-making and a more explicit relationship between culture and place.
artworksalliance.uk
December 18, 2025 at 6:45 AM
How do small, focussed-arts activities change how people relate to a place and to one another, and what gets lost when cultural value is judged only by scale, numbers, or economic return?
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EXCL: An agreement to rejoin Erasmus – the EU’s student exchange programme – set to be announced on Wednesday as part of UK government’s drive towards closer relations with Brussels.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme
Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
EXCL: An agreement to rejoin Erasmus – the EU’s student exchange programme – set to be announced on Wednesday as part of UK government’s drive towards closer relations with Brussels.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Trump sues the BBC is the stupidest story ever
Of course, cover it but please, please point out - early - how stupid it is.
And don’t put it at the top of the news. Because it’s really, really stupid.
Of course, cover it but please, please point out - early - how stupid it is.
And don’t put it at the top of the news. Because it’s really, really stupid.
December 16, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Trump sues the BBC is the stupidest story ever
Of course, cover it but please, please point out - early - how stupid it is.
And don’t put it at the top of the news. Because it’s really, really stupid.
Of course, cover it but please, please point out - early - how stupid it is.
And don’t put it at the top of the news. Because it’s really, really stupid.
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Stuart Hall on teaching 💛
“Let me put it this way: you have to be sure about a position in order to teach a class, but you have to be open-ended enough to know that you are going to change your mind by the time you teach it next week” (Hall, Essential Essays vol. 1, p. 245)
“Let me put it this way: you have to be sure about a position in order to teach a class, but you have to be open-ended enough to know that you are going to change your mind by the time you teach it next week” (Hall, Essential Essays vol. 1, p. 245)
December 15, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Stuart Hall on teaching 💛
“Let me put it this way: you have to be sure about a position in order to teach a class, but you have to be open-ended enough to know that you are going to change your mind by the time you teach it next week” (Hall, Essential Essays vol. 1, p. 245)
“Let me put it this way: you have to be sure about a position in order to teach a class, but you have to be open-ended enough to know that you are going to change your mind by the time you teach it next week” (Hall, Essential Essays vol. 1, p. 245)
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NEW on Wonkhe: For Mollie Etheridge REF is a missed opportunity to recognise and reward early career researchers buff.ly/C8IKo7z
December 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
NEW on Wonkhe: For Mollie Etheridge REF is a missed opportunity to recognise and reward early career researchers buff.ly/C8IKo7z
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🌍 Want to shape the future of film, TV, games & immersive media? Creative Bridges CDT offers fully funded PhDs tackling sustainability & diversity in the UK screen industries
#CreativeBridges #PhDResearch
👉 creativebridges-cdt.ac.uk
#CreativeBridges #PhDResearch
👉 creativebridges-cdt.ac.uk
December 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
🌍 Want to shape the future of film, TV, games & immersive media? Creative Bridges CDT offers fully funded PhDs tackling sustainability & diversity in the UK screen industries
#CreativeBridges #PhDResearch
👉 creativebridges-cdt.ac.uk
#CreativeBridges #PhDResearch
👉 creativebridges-cdt.ac.uk
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Read a new paper in @ejcs-journal.bsky.social from our excellent colleague Cecilia Ghidotti. 'On Quitting Cultural Work'...
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December 11, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Read a new paper in @ejcs-journal.bsky.social from our excellent colleague Cecilia Ghidotti. 'On Quitting Cultural Work'...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Our Art, Enterprise and Development students enjoyed their recent trip to #coventrybiennial and @the-herbert.bsky.social. Thanks to Ryan Hughes for the tour.
December 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Our Art, Enterprise and Development students enjoyed their recent trip to #coventrybiennial and @the-herbert.bsky.social. Thanks to Ryan Hughes for the tour.
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What we're seeing is exactly what we saw in the late 1940s, the late 1960s and the mid- to late 1970s: a concerted and hysterical campaign to delegitimise a Labour government, and indeed the very idea of Labour governments at all.
December 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
What we're seeing is exactly what we saw in the late 1940s, the late 1960s and the mid- to late 1970s: a concerted and hysterical campaign to delegitimise a Labour government, and indeed the very idea of Labour governments at all.
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🚀 Applications are OPEN for Creative Bridges CDT, a pioneering PhD programme to diversify talent in the screen industries! Fully funded studentships available. Apply by 20 April 2026 👉 creativebridges-cdt.ac.uk #PhDOpportunity #ScreenIndustries #DiversityInMedia
November 29, 2025 at 7:22 AM
🚀 Applications are OPEN for Creative Bridges CDT, a pioneering PhD programme to diversify talent in the screen industries! Fully funded studentships available. Apply by 20 April 2026 👉 creativebridges-cdt.ac.uk #PhDOpportunity #ScreenIndustries #DiversityInMedia
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The sheer scale of media outrage this week about plans to lift hundreds of thousands children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the real priorities of the British press
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
The Real 'Benefits Street' Protecting Britain's Wealthiest
The sheer scale of outrage about plans to lift children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the priorities of the British press
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The sheer scale of media outrage this week about plans to lift hundreds of thousands children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the real priorities of the British press
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
Really thrilled to be working with @joannegh.bsky.social, Anamika Saha, Sanjay Sharma, @cimethods.bsky.social and our industry partners on this. Have a research project that can shape the future of the screen industries? Come and join us!
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🚀 Applications are OPEN for Creative Bridges CDT, a pioneering PhD programme to diversify talent in the screen industries! Fully funded studentships available. Apply by 20 April 2026 👉 creativebridges-cdt.ac.uk #PhDOpportunity #ScreenIndustries #DiversityInMedia
November 29, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Really thrilled to be working with @joannegh.bsky.social, Anamika Saha, Sanjay Sharma, @cimethods.bsky.social and our industry partners on this. Have a research project that can shape the future of the screen industries? Come and join us!
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Lovely few days talking Digital Cultural Heritage in Prato. A big hand to the organisers.
November 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Lovely few days talking Digital Cultural Heritage in Prato. A big hand to the organisers.
Lovely spot, this.
Great few days in Prato working on our @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social and @monashuniversity.bsky.social Alliance Activation award on Digital and Cultural Heritage.
November 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Lovely spot, this.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Next week: A live recording of the FUTURES podcast feat @lukerobertmason.net and @profstevefuller.bsky.social discussing Media and the Power of Knowledge
RSVP: forms.office.com/e/x1QfsAbAd6
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November 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Next week: A live recording of the FUTURES podcast feat @lukerobertmason.net and @profstevefuller.bsky.social discussing Media and the Power of Knowledge
RSVP: forms.office.com/e/x1QfsAbAd6
Details 👇
RSVP: forms.office.com/e/x1QfsAbAd6
Details 👇
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Big content is taking on AI – but it’s far from the David v Goliath tale they’d have you believe | Alexander Avila
Big content is taking on AI – but it’s far from the David v Goliath tale they’d have you believe | Alexander Avila
Deals between media conglomerates and tech companies serve both sets of interests, while leaving artists by the wayside, says video essayist, writer and researcher Alexander Avila
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Big content is taking on AI – but it’s far from the David v Goliath tale they’d have you believe | Alexander Avila
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Just to say, I am a supervisor here:
UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Responsible and Trustworthy in-the-world Natural Language Processing
www.responsiblenlp.org/2026-student...
If you are reading things like this and planning PhD project, do reach out:
www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Responsible and Trustworthy in-the-world Natural Language Processing
www.responsiblenlp.org/2026-student...
If you are reading things like this and planning PhD project, do reach out:
www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
2026 Studentships
www.responsiblenlp.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Just to say, I am a supervisor here:
UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Responsible and Trustworthy in-the-world Natural Language Processing
www.responsiblenlp.org/2026-student...
If you are reading things like this and planning PhD project, do reach out:
www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Responsible and Trustworthy in-the-world Natural Language Processing
www.responsiblenlp.org/2026-student...
If you are reading things like this and planning PhD project, do reach out:
www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
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"A court in Munich has ruled that OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT violated German copyright laws by using hits from top-selling musicians to train its language models in what creative industry advocates described as a landmark European ruling" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules
OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists’ work without permission
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:19 AM
"A court in Munich has ruled that OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT violated German copyright laws by using hits from top-selling musicians to train its language models in what creative industry advocates described as a landmark European ruling" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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'If creative practice makes knowledge, the challenge today is not justification. It’s circulation.'
A good introduction to a vital area of Arts & Humanities research.
A good introduction to a vital area of Arts & Humanities research.
NEW on Wonkhe: After twenty-five years of progress creative practice research no longer needs to justify itself, writes Roy Hanney – but it still lacks the infrastructure to thrive. buff.ly/L10Fmfp
November 12, 2025 at 8:04 AM
'If creative practice makes knowledge, the challenge today is not justification. It’s circulation.'
A good introduction to a vital area of Arts & Humanities research.
A good introduction to a vital area of Arts & Humanities research.
"We invest in trains, hospitals, and clean water because we know they’re essential. Art is essential too."
Durham’s Lumiere festival was a beacon of hope and togetherness – we cannot let the lights go out on the rest of the arts
The UK’s culture sector needs financial, political and public support to survive. Funding is not a ‘favour’. It is an investment in imagination, in our shared experience – and in inspiration and joy
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
"We invest in trains, hospitals, and clean water because we know they’re essential. Art is essential too."
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We are so far through the looking glass that the man who tried to overthrow an election becomes president, the people who attacked the Capitol are turned into martyrs, & it's the BBC that gets punished - cheered on by the worst news outlets in the UK & the two most dishonest politicians of our age.
It’s not at all clear to me how the BBC can do any kind of serious journalism if its top two bosses can be forced to quit over such an obviously confected scandal. There is no substantive error here. How can the BBC report on Trump, or Farage, or anyone else, in these circumstances?
November 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
We are so far through the looking glass that the man who tried to overthrow an election becomes president, the people who attacked the Capitol are turned into martyrs, & it's the BBC that gets punished - cheered on by the worst news outlets in the UK & the two most dishonest politicians of our age.
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“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.”
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack
Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
thebaffler.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.”
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...