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Higher Education and the Creative EconomyConference, 22–23 March 2010, University ofSouthampton (United Kingdom)Peter Knighta

a School of Geography, University of SouthamptonPublished online: 06 Jan 2014.

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© 2010 Intellect Ltd Conference Report. English language. doi: 10.1386/cij.3.2.169_7

CONFERENCE REPORT

PETER KNIGHTSchool of Geography, University of Southampton

Higher Education and

the Creative Economy

Conference, 22–23 March

2010, University of

Southampton (United

Kingdom)

The first conference on Higher Education and the Creative Economy was held on 22–23 March 2010 at the University of Southampton, in association with the University of Portsmouth, University of Winchester, Southampton Solent University and PUSH (Partnership for Urban South Hampshire). The conference organizers, an interdisciplinary team from the University of Southampton, included Dr Roberta Comunian and Dr Alessandra Faggian from the School of Geography, Dr Bill Brooks from the School of Humanities and Dr Peter Smith from Social Sciences.

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The conference programme focused on addressing the role of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) within the creative economy and establishing a network of research and collaboration around this theme. While the literature recognizes the role of HEIs in local and regional development and their impor-tance in reference to human capital, very little attention has been devoted to the way HEIs contribute to the cultural and creative economy both locally and nationally. The conference aimed to be a platform for debating the knowledge and research available in this field and for discussing the potential for the development of this role for HEIs as the creative economy becomes central to economic development in the United Kingdom. The range of papers covered both theoretical perspectives and practical examples of the challenges faced by researchers in trying to capture the economic, social and cultural dimensions of the creative economy.

The seminar welcomed over twenty speakers from around the United Kingdom, Europe and the world, and a further 50 delegates, many of whom made valuable and informed contributions from the floor. The first afternoon of the event began with a keynote intervention from Margaret Wyszomirski (The Ohio State University) giving a highly informative presentation about the necessary skill-sets for creative industries professionals and how these can be achieved on a university campus. The following session addressed the topic of Creative Graduates Careers. Linda Ball (University of the Arts London) and Emma Pollard (Institute for Employment Studies) then presented their find-ings from the research project ‘Creative Graduates Creative Futures’ on the challenges for creative careers in the twenty-first century. It was then the turn of Professor Claus Noppeney (Bern University of Applied Sciences) to talk about career strategies of creative graduates from a European perspective.

After the coffee break, the second keynote speaker of the day, Lucinda Lavelli (University of Florida, College of Fine Arts), passionately spoke around how the creative campus initiative had been implemented at the University of Florida and the need to bridge the gap across disciplines in this kind of initiative. The second session of the afternoon covered the theme of Building bridges between HEIs and the creative economy. Christine Hamilton (Coventry University) then took to the floor to present her work at the Institute of Creative Enterprise in Coventry and a case study on the university and the creative industries. To conclude a very busy afternoon session Dr Daniel Ashton (Bath Spa University) presented his findings on researching creative media studies in the creative economy.

Following this final session of the day, a welcome reception, hosted by the University of Southampton, was held in the John Hansard Gallery. This included informal welcomes from Stephen Foster (director of the John Hansard Gallery), Simon Higman (University of Southampton), Simon Eden (PUSH), Rod Pilling (Southampton Solent University) and David Arrell (University of Portsmouth). Delegates were invited to view the current exhibition displayed in the gallery and to use the setting as a beneficial networking opportunity. The conference dinner then served as a fitting conclusion to a busy day.

The second day of the conference commenced with a session on Talent, Places and Human Capital. Professor Miguel Angel Pesquera (High Technical School of Civil Engineering, Santander) spoke about higher education, creativ-ity and economic growth in Spain. Dr Maria Abreu (University of Groningen) then gave an insightful account of how bohemian graduates struggle to develop a career within the new creative class. After the coffee break came the turn of the third keynote speaker of the conference Kevin Stolarick

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(University of Toronto), who worked with Richard Florida on the quantitative work behind the book The Rise of the Creative Class. Stolarick gave a lively and thought-provoking contribution on whether the university and the creative economy could be seen to form a beneficial and lasting relationship. In the last session of the morning, Dr Alessandra Faggian and Dr Roberta Comunian (University of Southampton) then reviewed some of the statistical evidence and literature accounts about the relationship between higher education and the creative city.

In the afternoon session, the last keynote speaker, Scott Bridges (University of Alabama) presented some of his work on the creative cam-pus and the role of the academic entrepreneur. The programme then split into two separate sessions, with one exploring the relationship between the Entrepreneurial education and the teacher-practitioner and the other address-ing Creative clustering and Higher Education. In the first session, Mark Gaynor (Southampton Solent University) commenced by presenting a case study of an Erasmus-based life-long learning programme in Norway. This was fol-lowed by Antonia Clews (Bath Spa University) and David Clews (University of Brighton) delivering a passionate presentation on teacher practitioners and some important perspectives on their professional development. In the second session Daniel Sanchez-Serra (Autonomous University of Barcelona) gave a paper on the creative clustering effect of qualified human capital in France. This session was concluded by Dr Christine Liefooghe (Lille 1 University), who reviewed the emergence and clustering of creative HEIs for the development of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais Region. The delegates then retired for their final coffee break.

The final sessions of the day were again parallel sessions. One of these explored Creative learning and creative value. Angela Partington (University of the West of England) kicked this off with an informative presentation enti-tled ‘21st Century Creativity and the HE curriculum’. Dr Lorraine Warren (University of Southampton) then followed on a similar theme with a snap-shot of her current research in the school of management concerned with universities and the creation and articulation of value in Creative Industries. Alternatively, delegates had the opportunity to listen to a session entitled Partnership and knowledge transfer. This section got underway with Paul Laidler (University of West of England) presenting his work on the collaborative print studio within an HEI and its relationship to the art marketplace. The last aca-demic presentation of the programme was given by Stephen Foster (John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton), who addressed the question of dynamic partnerships between artists and organizations, as well as those between higher education and the government.

Finally, Roberta Comunian made some brief concluding remarks, and thanked all the presenters – and contributors from the floor – for all their efforts in making the two days such a stimulating, informative and thought-provoking experience. Of particular note was the contribution of the American keynote speakers. These contributions provided important contrasts and simi-larities between how things are done in the UK and European HEIs compared with American HEIs. Bill Brooks (University of Southampton) also commented on the variety of the programme and the opportunity to welcome speakers from all around the United Kingdom, Europe and North America to the con-ference and to the University of Southampton. A number of areas for spin-off activities and future collaborations and networking opportunities arising from the seminar have already been identified.

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For further information about the conference programme and to download some of the presentations and papers, visit the website www.creative-campus.org.uk. You can also keep informed about future activities by registering to the network mailing list.

SUGGESTED CITATION

Knight, P. (2010), ‘Higher Education and the Creative Economy Conference, 22–23 March 2010, University of Southampton (United Kingdom)’, Creative Industries Journal 3: 2, pp. 169–172, doi: 10.1386/cij.3.2.169_7

CONTRIBUTOR DETAILS

Peter Knight is attending the MA in Creative Cities by Research at the University of Southampton. His dissertation work is concern with culture as local development strategy of small towns, looking at the case study of Eastleigh in Hampshire.

Contact: School of Geography, University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, SO17 1BJ.E-mail: p.a.knight@soton.ac.uk

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