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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Fascinating discussion around class on Radio 4's Free Thinking feat. @adellestripe.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Free Thinking - Working Class Creativity - BBC Sounds
Depictions of working class life on TV and in culture and how they've changed.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 13, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Fascinating discussion around class on Radio 4's Free Thinking feat. @adellestripe.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Another example (just like the Essex campus closure) of how refusing to have a structured and effective HE policy destroys the rest of the government’s place-based goals www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Shattered dreams: How the battle for Sunderland’s glass centre turned into a political flashpoint
Custodian University of Sunderland says renovation costs of £45m are too high and building must be pulled down. Not without a fight, say locals, who believe they’re being taken for fools
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2026 at 7:18 AM
Another example (just like the Essex campus closure) of how refusing to have a structured and effective HE policy destroys the rest of the government’s place-based goals www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Excellent. I always preferred 'morbid symptoms'. And it's a much better name for a pub quiz team.
‘The time of monsters’: everyone is quoting Gramsci – but what did he actually say?
‘The time of monsters’: everyone is quoting Gramsci – but what did he actually say?
Line handily sums up people’s bewilderment at state of world, but it isn’t quite what the Marxist thinker wrote
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2026 at 9:05 AM
Excellent. I always preferred 'morbid symptoms'. And it's a much better name for a pub quiz team.
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Going live for our CDI stream on digital intimacies.
February 4, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Going live for our CDI stream on digital intimacies.
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Collaborative PhD on art and/as R&D with me and the Serpentine gallery - tracking how value, labour, knowledge and resources move through art-technology production networks.
I'll happily chat to anyone you think would be good for (and would benefit from) this.
www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...
I'll happily chat to anyone you think would be good for (and would benefit from) this.
www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Mapping Creative R&D in Art-Technology Ecosystems | University of Westminster, London
www.westminster.ac.uk
January 29, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Collaborative PhD on art and/as R&D with me and the Serpentine gallery - tracking how value, labour, knowledge and resources move through art-technology production networks.
I'll happily chat to anyone you think would be good for (and would benefit from) this.
www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...
I'll happily chat to anyone you think would be good for (and would benefit from) this.
www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible.
It leads on "sharply contested narratives"
It has a dramatic skew to the US government
It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue
It leads on "sharply contested narratives"
It has a dramatic skew to the US government
It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue
January 24, 2026 at 11:00 PM
The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible.
It leads on "sharply contested narratives"
It has a dramatic skew to the US government
It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue
It leads on "sharply contested narratives"
It has a dramatic skew to the US government
It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue
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Thrilled to share some brilliant news 🎉
Ulster University has been awarded an AHRC Creative Communities Co-Lab Policy Network Award 2026
Huge thanks to Arts & Humanities Research Council, @northumbriauni.bsky.social and our incredible partners across Northern Ireland
More soon!
Ulster University has been awarded an AHRC Creative Communities Co-Lab Policy Network Award 2026
Huge thanks to Arts & Humanities Research Council, @northumbriauni.bsky.social and our incredible partners across Northern Ireland
More soon!
January 20, 2026 at 8:24 AM
Thrilled to share some brilliant news 🎉
Ulster University has been awarded an AHRC Creative Communities Co-Lab Policy Network Award 2026
Huge thanks to Arts & Humanities Research Council, @northumbriauni.bsky.social and our incredible partners across Northern Ireland
More soon!
Ulster University has been awarded an AHRC Creative Communities Co-Lab Policy Network Award 2026
Huge thanks to Arts & Humanities Research Council, @northumbriauni.bsky.social and our incredible partners across Northern Ireland
More soon!
Looking forward to working, as part of the AHRC Creative Communities Co-Lab Policy network, on Strengthening the Cultural Foundations of the West Midlands
creativecommunities.uk/research_art...
creativecommunities.uk/research_art...
January 20, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Looking forward to working, as part of the AHRC Creative Communities Co-Lab Policy network, on Strengthening the Cultural Foundations of the West Midlands
creativecommunities.uk/research_art...
creativecommunities.uk/research_art...
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And that is: asking a student to do a literature review isn’t really about the output, the final product. It’s about learning the process - assessing the quality of the evidence as you read it, learning how your question may evolve as you engage with the literature, learning how to spot SALIENCE 1/2
January 19, 2026 at 8:58 AM
And that is: asking a student to do a literature review isn’t really about the output, the final product. It’s about learning the process - assessing the quality of the evidence as you read it, learning how your question may evolve as you engage with the literature, learning how to spot SALIENCE 1/2
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'“Embedded precarity” in higher education is diminishing research quality as staff on short-term contracts favour “safer” work to secure future employment, according to the author of a new report.'
Royal Geographical Society maps important connections between precarity and research topics. 1/3
Royal Geographical Society maps important connections between precarity and research topics. 1/3
Use of fixed-term posts ‘stifling more critical research’
Scholars with short contracts seen as more likely to favour doing ‘safer’ work, with ‘serious ramifications’ for their disciplines
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:08 AM
'“Embedded precarity” in higher education is diminishing research quality as staff on short-term contracts favour “safer” work to secure future employment, according to the author of a new report.'
Royal Geographical Society maps important connections between precarity and research topics. 1/3
Royal Geographical Society maps important connections between precarity and research topics. 1/3
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‘There’s a sort of alarming and mysterious aspect to this wave in AI: that thing about the nature of the black box. We don’t know why it’s coming to the conclusions it’s coming to.’
John Lanchester on the AI bubble, on the podcast:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...
John Lanchester on the AI bubble, on the podcast:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...
Will the AI bubble burst?
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 07/01/2026 · 55m
podcasts.apple.com
January 9, 2026 at 5:10 PM
‘There’s a sort of alarming and mysterious aspect to this wave in AI: that thing about the nature of the black box. We don’t know why it’s coming to the conclusions it’s coming to.’
John Lanchester on the AI bubble, on the podcast:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...
John Lanchester on the AI bubble, on the podcast:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...
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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
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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...