Conference programme

 

Monday 22nd of March 2010    Turner Sims Concert Hall

1.00- 1.20 Registration – Lobby area Turner Sims Concert Hall  (Building 52)
                   

1.20 – 1.30 Welcome and conference programme

1.30 – 2.10  Keynote speaker: Margaret Wyszomirski, The Ohio State University Five Skill-Sets for Creative Industries Professionals: Assembling the Portfolio from Across the Campus

2.10 – 3.10 Session 1 Creative graduates careers   

Chair: Bill Brooks, University of Southampton

• Challenges for creative careers in the 21st century, Linda Ball, Senior Research Fellow, University of the Arts London, Centre for Learning and Teaching (CLTAD) and Emma Pollard,  Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Employment Studies (IES)
• Targeting Creative Industries? Career Strategies Of Creative Graduates, Prof. Claus Noppeney, Bern University of the Arts & Section Business & Administration, Bern University of Applied Sciences

3.10 - 3.40 Coffee break

3.40 - 4.20  Keynote speaker: Lucinda Lavelli, University of Florida College of Fine Arts. Envisioning a Creative Campus or Minding the Gap

4.20 – 5.20 Session 2 Building bridges between HEIs and the creative economy

Chair: Mark Gaynor, Southampton Solent University

• ICE Cool: a case study on the university and the creative industries, Christine Hamilton Director Institute for Creative Enterprise, Coventry University
• Researching creative media work: Media Studies in/and the Creative Economy,  Dr Daniel Ashton, Department of Film and Media Production, School of Humanities and Cultural Industries, Bath Spa University

5.30 -6.30  Welcome reception – John Hansard Gallery

• Welcome from Stephen Foster, Director of the John Hansard Gallery
• Welcome from Simon Higman, University of Southampton
• Welcome from Simon Eden, PUSH (Partnership for Urban South Hampshire)
• Welcome from Rod Pilling, Southampton Solent University
• Welcome from David Arrell, University of Portsmouth

7.30 Conference Dinner – La Margherita Restaurant Town Quays

 

Tuesday 23rd of March 2010         Nuffield Theatre Building 

 

8.45 -9.15 Welcome coffee in Nuffield Foyer

 

9.15 - 10.15 Session 3 Higher Education contribution to the creative economy

Chair: Stephen Foster, J Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton

• Activating Connections between the Creative Heart of Cities and Universities, Peter Quinn Davis Marca, School of Architecture and Design, Faculty of Arts, University of Plymouth
• Higher Education and the Creative City, Dr Alessandra Faggian, School of Geography, University of Southampton

10.15 - 10.45 Coffee break – Hartley Suite

10.45 - 11.30  Keynote Speaker: Kevin Stolarick, University of Toronto The University and the Creative Economy: Is This Thing On?

11.30 -12.30  Session 4  Talent, places and Human Capital

Chair: Bill Brooks, University of Southampton

• Life is short, art is long: from bohemian graduates to the creative class, Dr Maria Abreu, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
• Higher Education, Creativity and Economic Growth In Spain, Prof. Miguel Ángel Pesquera, High Technical School of Civil Engineer, Santander-España

12.30 - 1.45 Lunch – Hartley Suite

 1.45 - 2.30 Keynote Speaker:  Scott Bridges, University of Alabama The Creative Campus and the Role of the Academic Entrepreneur

 

2.30- 3.30 Session 5 A & B

Entrepreneurial Education & the teacher-practitioner   

    
Lecture Theatre A
Chair: Alan Schechner, Southampton Solent University

• The Currency of Our Time:  The strong entrepreneurial orientation of an art and design curriculum and the contribution of creative graduates to the needs of the UK economy, Emma Hunt, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Huddersfield
• The teacher-practitioner: particular perspectives on professional development. Antonia Clews, Bath Spa University and David Clews, University of Brighton

Creative Clustering and Higher Education

Lecture Theatre C
Chair: Lorraine Warren, University of Southampton

• The creative clustering effect of qualified human capital in France, Daniel Sanchez-Serra, Autonomous University of Barcelona and Economist, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris
• Emergence and clustering of Creative HEIs for the development of the Nord-Pas-de Calais Region, Dr Christine Liefooghe, Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Lille 1 University

3.30 - 4.00 Coffee break – Hartley Suite

4.00 - 5.00 Session 6 A & B

Creative graduates careers  & learning  

                                                           
Lecture Theatre A
Chair: Roberta Comunian, University of Southampton

• Towards Creative Entrepreneurship: An Erasmus Intensive Programme under the Life Long Learning Programme, Mark Gaynor, Principal Lecturer Visual Art, Southampton Solent University
• 21st Century Creativity and the HE Curriculum, Angela Partington, Head of Art & Design University of the West of England 

Partnership & knowledge transfer

Lecture Theatre C
Chair: Peter Smith,  University of Southampton

• The collaborative Print studio within an Higher Educational Institution and its relationship to the art marketplace, Paul Laidler, Research Associate, Centre for Fine Print Research Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE Bristol
• Universities and the Creation and Articulation of Value in Creative Industries, Dr Lorraine Warren, School of Management University of Southampton

5.00 - 5.30 Concluding remarks / discussion