Staff in ICCE

Professor Victoria Alexander

Co-Head of Department, Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship and Professor of Sociology and Arts Management
V.Alexander (@gold.ac.uk)

Victoria’s research combines sociology of the arts, visual culture, sociology of organisations and culture.

Karla Barnacle-Best

Lecturer
k.barnacle-best (@gold.ac.uk)

Karla has worked for over 30 years as an arts manager across theatre, live art, visual art and literature.

Dr Katie Beswick

Senior Lecturer and Programme Director, Arts Management
k.beswick (@gold.ac.uk)

Katie Beswick’s research interests include - performance, visual art, music, hip hop, housing, class, feminism

Dr Aleksandar Brkić

Senior Lecturer and Director, MA Arts Administration and Cultural Policy
a.brkic (@gold.ac.uk)

Alex is creatively balancing between the worlds of arts management and cultural policy research, teaching and practice.

Dr Paul Clements BA MA PhD

Lecturer
p.clements (@gold.ac.uk)

Paul is a lecturer in arts and cultural policy, spending many years working with marginalised communities.

Claire Cooke

Lecturer in Arts Management
c.cooke (@gold.ac.uk)

I am interested in magic, ritual, public space, performance (and its history), contemporary art and film.

Dr Nuria Cortes-Romero

Lecturer in Tourism and Cultural Policy | Digital Lecturer in Tourism and Cultural Diplomacy
N.CortesRomero (@gold.ac.uk)

Nuria focuses on tourism as a cross-phenomenon related to cultural policy, leisure, urban regeneration, and localization

Adrian De La Court

Director, MA Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship and Director, SYNAPSE
a.delacourt (@gold.ac.uk)

Originally trained as an artist and dancer, Adrian has developed a strong portfolio career in the creative industries

Dr Cecilia Dinardi

Senior Lecturer in Cultural Policy
c.dinardi (@gold.ac.uk)

Cecilia focuses on cultural policies, creative economy, heritage, cities, urban regeneration & creative methodologies

Ashley Evenson

Lecturer
A.Evenson (@gold.ac.uk)

Ashley is Lecturer of Creative Enterprise for the Institute of Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship (ICCE) and the Programme Facilitator for Synapse.

Professor Mike Featherstone

Professor in Sociology
m.featherstone (@gold.ac.uk)

Mike’s current interests are consumer culture, ageing, the body, global culture and knowledge formation.

Dr Shuo Feng

Lecturer in Luxury Brand Management
s.feng (@gold.ac.uk)

Shuo studies alternative luxury and alternative ways of living outside of mainstream capitalist consumerism.

Dr Nicola Guy

Lecturer in Arts Administration and Cultural Policy
n.guy (@gold.ac.uk)

Nicola’s research looks at exhibition-making and museum practices as a means of the production of space

Andrew Holden is Professor of Environment and Tourism at Goldsmiths, University of London. He conducts research that focusses on the environment/culture interface especially in the context of sustainable tourism, mobilities and the history of tourism.

Dr Richard Hull

Director, MA Social Entrepreneurship, ICCE
r.hull (@gold.ac.uk)

Richard explores social and sustainable enterprise and emerging alternatives to shareholder-focused forms of capitalism.

Oliver Kempton

Visiting Tutor
o.kempton (@gold.ac.uk)

Oliver’s focus is on using social research, evaluation and analysis to help organisations understand their impact.

Dr Sylvia Lahav

Lecturer
s.lahav (@gold.ac.uk)

Sylvia remains interested in the way in which museums of art use textual explanation to interpret their collections

Sara Linden

Lecturer
s.linden (@gold.ac.uk)

Sara’s interests include city branding, gender and urban spaces, and representation of cities in the media

Dr. Kelly Meng Parnwell

Programme Director, Luxury Brand Management
k.meng (@gold.ac.uk)

Kelly's current research focuses on international business development and strategic management in the luxury industry.

Jonathan Meth

Lecturer
j.meth (@gold.ac.uk)

Jonathan has over 25 years’ experience as a Senior Arts manager working internationally.

Dr Pauline Muir

Lecturer
p.muir (@gold.ac.uk)

Pauline's research interests are in culture, religion & include a focus on congregational singing in Africa megachurches

Dr Oonagh Murphy

Senior Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society
o.murphy (@gold.ac.uk)

Oonagh’s research has explored best practice on the scalability of emerging technologies for cultural organisations

Dr George Musgrave

Senior Lecturer in Cultural Sociology and Creative Industries
g.musgrave (@gold.ac.uk)

Interdisciplinary sociologist of music, researching musicians' psychosocial working lives

John Newbigin, OBE

Visiting Fellow
j.newbigin (@gold.ac.uk)

John was awarded an OBE for “services to creative industries and the arts” in the Queen’s 2015 New Years Honours L

Oliver Peterson Gilbert

Post-Doctoral Research Assistant for UNCHARTED project
o.petersongilbert (@gold.ac.uk)

Sociology of art, cultural policy, curatorial practice, ethnomusicology, cultural history, and the creative industries.

Siân Prime

Co-Head of Department, Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship and Academic Lead: Enterprise
s.prime (@gold.ac.uk)

Siân has worked globally with cultural, creative and social enterprises to develop sustainable, equitable models.

Dr Nicola Searle

Senior Lecturer
n.searle (@gold.ac.uk)

Nicola specialises in economics and management of IP, with a focus on the creative industries and trade secrets.

Dr Martin Smith

Visiting Fellow
msmit053 (@gold.ac.uk)

Martin works in the media, cultural and creative sectors in various advisory, executive, and non-executive capacities

Dr Tomoko Tamari

Senior Lecturer in Sociology
t.tamari (@gold.ac.uk)

Tomoko’s interests are Japanese culture & society; consumer culture; visual culture; technology and the body.

Nicola Turner

Lecturer
nicola.turner (@gold.ac.uk)

Nicola advises, consults, coaches and teaches, specialising in cultural leadership and entrepreneurship.