Studentships
Business School
Identity in Creative Careers: Impact of Geo-location and its Politics
Dr Katarzyna Kosmala
katarzyna.kosmala@uws.ac.uk
This application reflects multidisciplinary on-going research activity in the University, particularly but not exclusively in the Business School and the School of Media and Languages as well as strategic continuing research developments at the Centre for Contemporary European Studies: a recognised Centre in the Business School and the University that received 4 rating in the last RAE.
Research staff at the Centre also contributes to CRCEES, an inter-institutional Centre of Excellence funded under the Languages Based Area Studies initiative, a joint funding programme by the ESRC, the AHRC, the HEFCE and the SFC. This Centre has an established research profile in the areas of identity and culture and their socio-economic, political and organisational implications.
Doctoral studentships are offered in the broad areas of gender, identity and creative industries.
This studentship may focus on the following areas below. However, the precise nature of the research will be dependent on the expertise and interests of the candidate.
Creative sectors are important for social and economic development and new knowledge creation, according to the policy documents and strategies of governments at the Scottish, UK and European levels. However, their contribution in more peripheral locations appears more problematic with a need for better understanding to the barriers in their development and success.
The subject of this studentship addresses (1) participants’ identification with different aspects of the creative practice, including its organizational forms and enterprise and (2) the importance of location for identity construction and success in creative endeavour.
Through a series of interviews and observations, the projects aims to attend to identify instrumental attributes and to examine how these reflect and impact on creative practice, where the local stakeholders are positioned at a distance from the metropolitan centres and so situated in a conflicting reality of increasing commercialization in creative industries.