CREATOR: New Research Models and Processes for the Creative Industries

Project Description

Aims of the network include:

• Defining a long-term resarch agenda for the creative industries to underpin future collaborations between the ICT research base and creative practitioners
• Initiate new inter-disciplinary collaborations among researchers across ICT, Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Business Studies
• Propose and demonstrate new ways of engaging creative end-users, leading to new models of research which can successfully combine focused, practice-led, creative activity with the need to address long-term research goals
• Explore new forms of knowledge transfer and innovative business models reflecting the highly dynamic and distributed nature of the creative industries within the UK

Initial cluster members include:

• PI: Prof Steve Benford, Nottingham University
• CI: Dr Johnathan Foster, University of Sheffield
• CI: Kirk Woolford, Lancaster University
• Professor Gabriella Giannachi, University of Exeter
• Dr Sally Jane Norman, Newcastle University
• Dr Patrick George Timothy HealQueen Mary, University of Lond
• Dr John William Patterson, University of Glasgow
• Dr George Roussos, Birkbeck College
• Mr Thierry Barbier, Studio AmaK
• Dr Lorraine Warren, University of Southampton
• Professor Phil Willis, University of Bath
• Dr Alan Frank Blackwell, University of Cambridge
• Mr Matt Adams, Blast Theory
• Professor Ernest Edmonds, University of Technology Sydney
• Professor Ted Fuller, University of Teesside
• Professor William Gaver, Goldsmiths College
• Professor Peter Grindrod, University of Reading
• Mr Giles Lane, Proboscis
• Ms Clare Reddington, Watershed
• Professor Frank Van Reeth, Androme
• Ms Susan Heath, Decoda

EPSRC Reference: EP/G002088/1