This week I chaired a conference at Birmingham City University on Creative Enterprise.
It was largely aimed at educators but it did have a few students and some business support people amongst its delegates. First thing to say is that a way more reflective and thoughtful digest of the conference is being put together by Charlotte Carey. Go read it. I thought it might be worth pulling together links to some of the participants as that doesn’t seem to have been done anywhere else.
Here goes:
Linda Ball gave the keynote and works at the University of the Arts London. Take a look at the Artist’s Development Toolkit she has developed and of course she’s got quite a pedigree in Art and Design employability research.
There followed four presentations from graduates of the MA Media Enterprise and the Insight Out programme at Birmingham City University. Those presenting gave an interesting glimpse of what it’s like to try to combine running a business with undertaking study whilst still having a life of sorts. The presenters were:
Sian Prime, formerly of NESTA gave a workshop. She helped develop the enterprise tools used in the Insight Out programme.
Charlotte Carey presented some of her research about the MA Media Enterprise in a workshop that also had presentations by Andy and Kath Penaluna and from Antonia Walker from Bath Spa University.
Jemima Gibbons facilitated a workshop and has blogged about it. Her speakers were: David Gibson from Queen’s University Belfast; Jacquie Green & Richard Holt from Somerset Centre for Enterprise and Terry Hunt from Birmingham City University’s School of Jewellery (which also hosted the event). Paul Long chaired a debate at the end of the day on taking the debate forward.
In all it seemed to be a useful day for delegates. I certainly feel that this is a developing area of reserch that perhaps at the moment sits a little awkwardly between not knowing if it wants to produce self-help guides for students or to engage in critical debate about the politics of enterprise. Here’s looking forward to the next conference in 2010….