Creative Industries - News

CEx Launch event

The AHRC Creative exchange hub was launched at Culture Lab on 23rd February. Read More

Knowledge Exchange seminar

This seminar, ‘the role of technology in participation and engagement in the arts’ was the fifth seminar in the series around for which the SiDE Creative Industries team worked closely to organise and host. Read More
date: 06.03.2012

Researchers present at DE2011

SiDE Society and Creative Industries researchers presented at this year's Digital Economy All Hands conference: Digital Engagement. Read More
date: 01.12.2011

Cultural organisation mapping

The Creative Media team (Creative Researcher Andreia Cavaco and Ph.D student Ben Jones), in collaboration with Researchers on the Society Perspective (Liz Robson) have been mapping Creative and Cultural on the ground organisations as well as key stakeholders in the North East. Read More
date: 30.03.2011

SiDE awarded AHRC ‘Connected Communities’ grant

The “Connected Communities” team which incorporates the Creative Media and Social Science researchers on SiDE, was awarded the AHRC’s Connected Communities Scoping Study. Read More
date: 01.02.2011

  • Festival de l’eau 2010 - From the 26th of December 2010 to the 2nd of January 2011, the Festival de l’eau visited Burkina-Faso stopping in 3 villages : Léri, Walo and Ouessa. The festival series spans the decade, 2000-2010, and its long term nature offers rare insights into sustained relationships with rural, hard to reach, tribal communities.

  • Regional Youth Work Unit - SiDE is working with the Regional Youth Work Unit - North East, a registered charity which works across the North of East of England to promote and support the development of youth work.

  • Situating communities through creative technologies and practice - Following the award of the AHRC’s Connected Communities Scoping Study’ award, the “Connected Communities” team will produce and interdisciplinary think piece entitled “Situating Communities through Creative Technologies and Practise”, 

  • Interdisciplinary collaborations within SiDE - The Creative Media team has organised meetings with researchers from the Social Sciences, Business and User perspectives.

  • Interview with Atau Tanaka - Interview with SiDE's Creative Media Co-Investigator and Director of Culture Lab, Prof. Atau Tanaka.