Thursday 16 April
Workshop 1: Risk and Innovation
Speakers' Biographies
Nell Munro
Dr Nell Munro is a lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Nottingham. She is primarily interested in the socio-legal study of mental health service provision. However, in order to study this field she has needed to work within the NHS research governance framework, which has generated a secondary interest in the issue of research governance generally, particularly as it affects innovative and inter-disciplinary research practice.
Robert Dingwall
Professor Robert Dingwall is Director of the Institute for Science and Society at the University of Nottingham. He has a wide range of interests in the sociologies of law, medicine and science, and has been writing about ethics in social research for more than thirty years. He is currently preparing a number of papers examining the rise of ethical regulation as a social movement and questioning its implications for the traditional freedoms of academic inquiry.
Ruth Levitt
Contribution to the “Metrics and evaluation: the impact culture”
Realities of research design
Ruth Levitt, PhD, MBA is a Research Leader with RAND Europe in Cambridge. She is an experienced policy analyst and works on a wide range of strategy and evaluation issues, including many aspects of arts and culture, higher education and research policy. Her training has ranged across social science, the arts and the natural sciences. She has worked in central government and Parliament. Independently she undertakes academic research and is currently Research Fellow at the Wiener Library Institute of Contemporary History, London, and Associate Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.
Calvin Taylor
Impact Evaluation and Regulation in the Republic of Creativity
Calvin Taylor holds the Chair in Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds. He is a social scientist working in the arts and his interests include the social relationships of creative production; culture and the governance of knowledge; creativity and the university and the sociology of open systems. He is currently working on definitions of cultural knowledge exchange for a paper entitled Knowledge Exchange and Culture: Acculturated Understandings of Knowledge Transfer in the Creative Industries. For more than a decade he has worked on methodologies for mapping the creative industries.
Alan Hughes
Knowledge Exchange: What Academics and Business Want and Do
Alan Hughes is Margaret Thatcher Professor of Enterprise Studies at the Judge Business School, Director of the Centre for Business Research at the University of Cambridge where he is also a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, and Director of the UK Innovation Research Centre, a joint venture between Cambridge and Imperial College London.
He has worked extensively on the role of universities in innovation and on the nature of knowledge exchange patterns between universities and the science base. His work in this area with colleagues at the Centre for Business Research, Cambridge, and at the Industrial Performance Center MIT has been published in the report Cosh, Hughes and Lester (2006) UK PLC: Just How Innovative Are We? (www.cbr.cam.ac.uk/news/160206_Report_only.htm). This has revealed the much wider range of patterns of knowledge exchange which characterise both the UK and the US and which go beyond the recently emphasised areas of new business spin-offs and technology licensing. These include in particular interaction through informal exchange and the conventional modes of university output in terms of highly educated graduates and post-graduates and the publication and widespread dissemination of research results through journal articles, publications and conferences. With PACEC he has recently completed an evaluation of Third Stream Funding for HEFCE. He is currently completing with colleagues at CBR a 3-year ESRC funded project analysing university-industry links at national and regional levels University-Industry Knowledge Exchange: Demand Pull, Supply Push and the Public Space Role of Higher Education Institutions in the UK Regions (http://www.cbr.cam.ac.uk/research/programme1/project1-17.htm).
In 2004 he was appointed by the Prime Minister of the UK to membership of the Council for Science and Technology which is the UK’s senior policy advisory body in this area.
Kate Oakley
Conversations and Collaborations: in defence of the talking shop
Kate Oakley is a writer and policy analyst, specialising in the cultural industries, cultural policy and regional development. She is a Visiting Professor in Innovation at the University of the Arts in London and at the Department of Cultural Policy and Management, City University.
She was the author of the "Creative London" Report in 2004 and has worked with a number of cities and regions, both in the UK and internationally, on public policy in the creative industries.
Publications include London’s Creative Economy: An Accidental Success? (2007) co-written with John Knell, published by the Work Foundation and Better Than Working For a Living? (2007) a study of labour markets in festivals and events, published by City University. In 2008, she completed a year-long study of the changing working practices of fine art graduates, entitled, The Art of Innovation and published by NESTA.
Kate’s current research interests concern work in the cultural industries, innovation and art education.
Brendan Walker
Thrill and the Perception of Risk
Brendan Walker is director of Aerial, a design practice specialising in the creation of tailored emotional experience. Blending strategies from the arts, design, engineering and psychology, Aerial offers strategic consultancy; the design and production of intriguing interactive electromechanical installations, sculptures and rides; and the curating and staging of engaging events.
Dubbed by The Times as "The World's only Thrill Engineer", Brendan has spent the last 8 years developing a unique strand of research understanding thrill as both a scientific and cultural phenomenon, and creating new forms of thrilling entertainment. This research, originally conducted at the Royal College of Art, was given a kick-start in 2003 by an AHRB Innovation Award (where "failure was an acceptable outcome"). Brendan is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham.
Brendan embodies and communicates his research through the increasingly popular Thrill Laboratory - "a fluid organisation of scientists, artists, designers, engineers, and technologists all of whom have a passion for experimentation" - which has featured internationally on the TV and in the press.
Pat Kane
Taking Reality Lightly: the challenge of play to metrics of creativity
Pat Kane, 45, is a musician, writer, consultant and activist. His 2004 book The Play Ethic (Macmillan, www.theplayethic.com) has been praised by figures like Will Hutton, Charles Leadbeater, Daniel Pink and Douglas Ruskhoff. His band Hue And Cry (www.hueandcry.co.uk) have supported Madonna, U2, James Brown, and Van Morrison and Al Green, and their thirteenth album Open Soul was released in 2008. Pat writes regularly for the Guardian and Independent, and was a founding editor of The Sunday Herald in Scotland. He has consulted for organisations as diverse as Lego, Nokia, the Cabinet Office and Bartle Bogle Hegarty on the power and potential of play.
Dani Salvadori
Who, What and Why: ensuring knowledge transfer is also innovation
Dani Salvadori has been Director of Enterprise and Innovation at Central Saint Martins since 2006 with a remit to increase income through trading, collaborative projects and fundraising while building expertise in the College in enterprise, knowledge transfer and innovation. After a degree in physics from Imperial College, University of London, she worked as an arts manager in theatre, dance, international festivals and international cultural exchange, including the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT), and the seminal Arts & the Changing City project (1987 – 1990) for the British American Arts Association. She moved to Central Saint Martins in 1994 as Business Manager of the trading arm of the College, Developments at Central Saint Martins (now London Artscom Ltd). After building that up to an annual turnover of more than £2 million she was appointed as Head of Marketing and Enterprise in 2002. She developed, wrote and championed the business plan, marketing and branding strategies to attract £3m of capital investment for Central Saint Martins Innovation to generate and exploit research, design activity and intellectual property rights across the college which she now runs. The department now employs 40 people who range from professors to design interns and has a turnover in excess of £6m pa. She is particularly interested in innovation processes in the arts and design.
Dani is involved in a personal capacity in creative businesses in publishing and architect led property development and is a board member of Watermans Arts Centre in west London.
Giles Lane
Trust & Evaluation
Giles Lane is an artist, researcher and teacher. He founded and is co-director of Proboscis, a non-profit creative studio based in London where, since 1994, he has led projects such as Urban Tapestries; Snout; Mapping Perception; Experiencing Democracy; Everyday Archaeology; and Private Reveries, Public Spaces. Giles is a Visiting Tutor on the MA Design Critical Practice at Goldsmiths College (University of London) and is a Research Associate of the Media and Communications Department at London School of Economics. Giles was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2008 for his contribution to community development through creative practice.
http://proboscis.org.uk | http://diffusion.org.uk
Seymour Rowarth-Stokes
Mind the gap: dissemination versus transformation in arts and humanities research
Dr Roworth-Stokes has a background in the creative industries as a design consultant and has over 15 years experience of higher education as an academic and senior manager with particular expertise in the areas of research, business development, cultural regeneration, marketing, public relations and international development. He has responsibility to lead and manage the University’s research, knowledge transfer, marketing and cultural strategies including the departments of Research & Enterprise and Marketing & Communications.
His personal research interests include academic intrapreneurship, design management and the determinants of design group performance. He is Chair of the AHRC’s Knowledge Transfer Catalyst, Fellowship, and BBC schemes and is a Council member of the Design Research Society.
He is currently leading a £2M project in support of the Cultural Olympiad on behalf of a consortium of 13 universities in the South East which seeks to realise the potential of Higher Education in the lead up to the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.
Sally Jane Norman
How can we ensure the transferability of new patterns of behaviour?
Sally Jane is a theorist/ practitioner working on links between art, science and technology. Parallel to promoting creative interdisciplinary research at institutions including the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music, Amsterdam and the Ecole supérieure de l'image, Angoulême-Poitiers, she has been regularly engaged on European Framework Programme initiatives and served as consultant for many international government bodies. In 2004 she became founding Director of Culture Lab, an interdisciplinary digital research hub for creative collaborations at at Newcastle University, and is a founding member of the AHRC Knowledge Transfer Review Committee. http://www.ncl.ac.uk/culturelab/people/profile/s.j.norman
