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Professor David O'Brien

Dave O'Brien is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Manchester, and currently a UKRI Policy Fellow at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. He is the author and co-author of numerous books, papers, and reports about creative industries, including 'Culture is bad for you' and the Creative Majority reports. 
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Professor David O'Brien

Why we need an industrial strategy for culture

Professor Dave O’Brien will be joining us at Progressive Britain Conference 2024 on May 11th, at our panel ‘Do we need a Cultural Industrial Strategy?’. Get your tickets to hear more from him there!   The UK’s cultural and creative sectors face a range of challenges. High profile cuts in

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