Dr. Kate Oakley is Professor of Cultural Policy at the School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds. She was previously Head of the Centre for Cultural Policy and Management at City University, London and a Visiting Professor at the University of the Arts London. Her research interests include the politics of cultural policy, work in the cultural industries, and regional development. She came into academia following careers as a journalist, market researcher and civil servant and for 15 years she ran a successful consultancy and research business in the cultural sectors. Her portfolio of projects included: work on cultural and creative industry strategies; work on the social impacts of culture and the arts; work on skills and employment in the cultural industries and cultural policy advice at a variety of spatial levels.Dr. Mark Banks is Professor and Director of CAMEo Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies, Universityof Leicester - an interdisciplinary institute launched in 2016 to explore the changing productive dynamics of the cultural and creative industries, cultural consumption, media and arts. Prior to this, he was Director of Research (2015-16) and Academic Programme Director (2014-15) in the Department of Media and Communication. His research is mostly concerned with the relationships between culture and economy, mainly in the context of the cultural industries, and he is especially interested in issues of cultural work in relation to identity, access and opportunity, social justice, and moral economy.
