David Wright
@davwright.bsky.social
Researching and teaching about creative industries and cultural policy at the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies, SCAPVC, University of Warwick.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/ccmps/staff/david/
If you want me, I'll be at the cricket.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/ccmps/staff/david/
If you want me, I'll be at the cricket.
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David Wright
@davwright.bsky.social
· Mar 25
Creative and Cultural Work in Europe | Bård Kleppe, Jaka Primorac, Mii
This book gathers evidence and case studies from various parts of Europe and across the different sectors that comprise the creative industries, including the
www.taylorfrancis.com
Out today, from editors Bård Kleppe, Jaka Primorac, Mikka Pyykkönen and me. The book combines cross-national writing teams and focussed case studies across Europe to examine the rhetoric and reality of creative work. A contents thread 👇 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
It was a bit weird that it took John Curtice to drop this truth bomb in the Today piece on this earlier, as opposed to the BBC correspondent.
The Ben Delo who has just given Reform £36m is the same Ben Delo who US prosecutors said was the leader of a ‘criminal enterprise’
But hey ho, it’s fine for him- and any other crypto bro - to buy British democracy lock stock and barrel
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reforms-4m...
But hey ho, it’s fine for him- and any other crypto bro - to buy British democracy lock stock and barrel
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reforms-4m...
Reform's £4m donor "thumbed his nose at the law", US prosecutors said
Ben Delo has called his US conviction a "non-crime". Prosecutors said the Farage-backing crypto billionaire was a “leader of a criminal enterprise”.
democracyforsale.substack.com
September 12, 2026 at 7:33 AM
It was a bit weird that it took John Curtice to drop this truth bomb in the Today piece on this earlier, as opposed to the BBC correspondent.
Excellent. Bit of a long walk to the gag at the end but worth it. 3*
NEW on Wonkhe: New science minister Chris McDonald loves brass bands. Will he grow to love the REF in the same way? buff.ly/CMrX5Db
August 30, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Excellent. Bit of a long walk to the gag at the end but worth it. 3*
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New research position: bringing arts and culture to the centre of the economy.
Research Fellow at UCL IIPP, working with me and the team, and partners in the UK and Brazil on how cultural value is measured, governed and funded.
Closes 11 September ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Research Fellow at UCL IIPP, working with me and the team, and partners in the UK and Brazil on how cultural value is measured, governed and funded.
Closes 11 September ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
August 28, 2026 at 4:50 PM
New research position: bringing arts and culture to the centre of the economy.
Research Fellow at UCL IIPP, working with me and the team, and partners in the UK and Brazil on how cultural value is measured, governed and funded.
Closes 11 September ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Research Fellow at UCL IIPP, working with me and the team, and partners in the UK and Brazil on how cultural value is measured, governed and funded.
Closes 11 September ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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AI policies are repeating every mistake of plagiarism policies: AI use is being framed as a binary of permitted or cheating, when for second-language writers it is a question of learning, says Özgür Çelik
https://ow.ly/MhSY50ZG4rN
https://ow.ly/MhSY50ZG4rN
August 28, 2026 at 5:50 AM
AI policies are repeating every mistake of plagiarism policies: AI use is being framed as a binary of permitted or cheating, when for second-language writers it is a question of learning, says Özgür Çelik
https://ow.ly/MhSY50ZG4rN
https://ow.ly/MhSY50ZG4rN
After a near two decade career teaching and researching a range of topics at a top ranked global university, the question I'm asked most - and which I still struggle to answer - is 'Does the word count include the bibliography?'
August 20, 2026 at 6:53 AM
After a near two decade career teaching and researching a range of topics at a top ranked global university, the question I'm asked most - and which I still struggle to answer - is 'Does the word count include the bibliography?'
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'A Russell Group university will no longer use ubiquitous anti-cheating tools provided by Turnitin because of concerns that the company might use students’ work to train artificial intelligence.'
Maybe time for UK universities to develop and commercialise their own tools?
Maybe time for UK universities to develop and commercialise their own tools?
Southampton dumps Turnitin over use of students’ work to train AI
Academic integrity giant denies accusations as university declines to renew contract in favour of ‘other options’
www.timeshighereducation.com
August 19, 2026 at 6:20 AM
'A Russell Group university will no longer use ubiquitous anti-cheating tools provided by Turnitin because of concerns that the company might use students’ work to train artificial intelligence.'
Maybe time for UK universities to develop and commercialise their own tools?
Maybe time for UK universities to develop and commercialise their own tools?
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August 6, 2026 at 7:22 AM
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Nottingham Puppet Festival today
Only saw a few acts because of work but it was still fun, the heat showed a little mercy and everything seemed a big hit with kids
Only saw a few acts because of work but it was still fun, the heat showed a little mercy and everything seemed a big hit with kids
June 27, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Nottingham Puppet Festival today
Only saw a few acts because of work but it was still fun, the heat showed a little mercy and everything seemed a big hit with kids
Only saw a few acts because of work but it was still fun, the heat showed a little mercy and everything seemed a big hit with kids
Do you intend to abolish first class rail travel?
YouTube video by Tom Cleaver
youtu.be
June 22, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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June 14, 2026 at 9:12 AM
Tune!
Given the Guardian best books brouhaha, here's a thing I wrote (in 2012!) about lists and literary taste. Still kind of stands up. The history bit is interesting if I say so myself 🤔
wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/51...
wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/51...
Literary taste and list culture in a time of "endless choice" - WRAP: Warwick Research Archive Portal
wrap.warwick.ac.uk
May 17, 2026 at 8:59 AM
Given the Guardian best books brouhaha, here's a thing I wrote (in 2012!) about lists and literary taste. Still kind of stands up. The history bit is interesting if I say so myself 🤔
wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/51...
wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/51...
No shade on the research itself which no doubt is careful and rigorous on its terms but I always find coverage of studies like this a bit depressing. As if we're only allowed beautiful things when there is a grimly utilitarian reason.
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Arts and cultural engagement ‘linked to slower pace of biological ageing’
Research from UCL suggests visiting art galleries or museums, singing and painting can help improve health outcomes
www.theguardian.com
May 12, 2026 at 7:33 AM
No shade on the research itself which no doubt is careful and rigorous on its terms but I always find coverage of studies like this a bit depressing. As if we're only allowed beautiful things when there is a grimly utilitarian reason.
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
And people say this platform is in decline.
we all know I have no life, so:
April 22, 2026 at 6:56 AM
And people say this platform is in decline.
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My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
April 21, 2026 at 11:43 AM
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
God bless the cultural intermediaries, I say.
As an author who also happens to have a book in @waterstones.bsky.social, I at least know the difference between paperback and hardback books, which he’s standing in front of…
April 19, 2026 at 9:20 AM
God bless the cultural intermediaries, I say.
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We conclude with reflections on what the evidence tells us. Notably, it indicates that challenging conditions of creative work are not inevitable. If states consider the creative economy important, then there are routes to supporting this work and these workers. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
Conclusion | 22 | Supporting Creative and Cultural Work in Europe | Da
This concluding chapter summarizes the arguments, evidence, and analysis presented in the previous chapters. It focusses on how questions of definition and
www.taylorfrancis.com
March 25, 2026 at 9:17 AM
We conclude with reflections on what the evidence tells us. Notably, it indicates that challenging conditions of creative work are not inevitable. If states consider the creative economy important, then there are routes to supporting this work and these workers. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
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This makes me happy and incredibly sad for what we let go … for how impossible it would be to set up anything with the intellectual, pedagogic, democratic vision of the OU now www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Milton Keynes statue honours Open University founder
The statue celebrates the life of an MP who was behind the creation of the university.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 28, 2026 at 7:30 AM
This makes me happy and incredibly sad for what we let go … for how impossible it would be to set up anything with the intellectual, pedagogic, democratic vision of the OU now www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Out today, from editors Bård Kleppe, Jaka Primorac, Mikka Pyykkönen and me. The book combines cross-national writing teams and focussed case studies across Europe to examine the rhetoric and reality of creative work. A contents thread 👇 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
Creative and Cultural Work in Europe | Bård Kleppe, Jaka Primorac, Mii
This book gathers evidence and case studies from various parts of Europe and across the different sectors that comprise the creative industries, including the
www.taylorfrancis.com
March 25, 2026 at 9:17 AM
Out today, from editors Bård Kleppe, Jaka Primorac, Mikka Pyykkönen and me. The book combines cross-national writing teams and focussed case studies across Europe to examine the rhetoric and reality of creative work. A contents thread 👇 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
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I think we need to do an edgy, single-take Netflix drama, set in a school in the north of England, about the online radicalisation of Nick Robinson
March 27, 2026 at 7:25 AM
I think we need to do an edgy, single-take Netflix drama, set in a school in the north of England, about the online radicalisation of Nick Robinson
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Thanks to our contributors, reviewers and to @bookseditorial.bsky.social and team at @routledgebooks.bsky.social for their help. If you work at a university, why not order a copy for your library? And if you don't, and you want to read anything, drop me a line. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
Creative and Cultural Work in Europe | Bård Kleppe, Jaka Primorac, Mii
This book gathers evidence and case studies from various parts of Europe and across the different sectors that comprise the creative industries, including the
www.taylorfrancis.com
March 25, 2026 at 9:17 AM
Thanks to our contributors, reviewers and to @bookseditorial.bsky.social and team at @routledgebooks.bsky.social for their help. If you work at a university, why not order a copy for your library? And if you don't, and you want to read anything, drop me a line. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
Out today, from editors Bård Kleppe, Jaka Primorac, Mikka Pyykkönen and me. The book combines cross-national writing teams and focussed case studies across Europe to examine the rhetoric and reality of creative work. A contents thread 👇 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
Creative and Cultural Work in Europe | Bård Kleppe, Jaka Primorac, Mii
This book gathers evidence and case studies from various parts of Europe and across the different sectors that comprise the creative industries, including the
www.taylorfrancis.com
March 25, 2026 at 9:17 AM
Out today, from editors Bård Kleppe, Jaka Primorac, Mikka Pyykkönen and me. The book combines cross-national writing teams and focussed case studies across Europe to examine the rhetoric and reality of creative work. A contents thread 👇 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
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Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral PhD Studentship at UCL and the V&A: 'Invisible Hands: Migrant Labour and British Craft in the 18th Century'
Ignore the 'top ten' hype; focus on the ace resources, environment and support. Deadline 15 April. #Skystorians
Ignore the 'top ten' hype; focus on the ace resources, environment and support. Deadline 15 April. #Skystorians
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
March 21, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral PhD Studentship at UCL and the V&A: 'Invisible Hands: Migrant Labour and British Craft in the 18th Century'
Ignore the 'top ten' hype; focus on the ace resources, environment and support. Deadline 15 April. #Skystorians
Ignore the 'top ten' hype; focus on the ace resources, environment and support. Deadline 15 April. #Skystorians
This is a really important point. No-one has been able to explain to me how we can fairly and consistently distinguish between an AI generated essay (formulaic and generic in its structure, phrasing and contents) and...
'It inverts a common anxiety about AI and assessment integrity. The students using AI most heavily are not cutting corners – they are the most ethically engaged, the most attentive to institutional guidance, and the most conscious of whether they could defend their work.' 4/4
March 21, 2026 at 10:18 AM
This is a really important point. No-one has been able to explain to me how we can fairly and consistently distinguish between an AI generated essay (formulaic and generic in its structure, phrasing and contents) and...
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If you’re wondering what the big deal is about Jürgen Habermas (who died yesterday), or if you’ve never heard of him until now, you’re not going to learn much from the short newspaper obituaries, which are focusing on more on what he said about current events than his philosophy. 1/
March 15, 2026 at 1:08 PM
If you’re wondering what the big deal is about Jürgen Habermas (who died yesterday), or if you’ve never heard of him until now, you’re not going to learn much from the short newspaper obituaries, which are focusing on more on what he said about current events than his philosophy. 1/
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Burnden Park, Bolton, 1946: the deal that cost father and son's lives in 'forgotten disaster'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The deal that cost father and son's lives in Burnden Park disaster
A family remembers how their loved ones never returned from the fatal 1946 stadium crush in Bolton.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 14, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Burnden Park, Bolton, 1946: the deal that cost father and son's lives in 'forgotten disaster'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...