Expert Comment
Dr Jane Webb comments on Boohoo's failure to keep to its ethical fashion promises.
Our identities are so entangled with what we wear and how we shop in the Global North and fast fashion feeds this.
Dr Alice Pember on box office success for Barbie and first female director
The phenomenal box office success of Greta Gerwig's big screen deconstruction of ‘Barbie world’ gender norms is by no means an incontrovertible ‘win’ for feminism.
Professor Pietari Kaapa, Professor in Media and Communications at the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies discusses Hollywood strikes
The WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes are a historic mobilisation of forces against the undervaluing and undercutting of creativity and labour in the film, TV and streaming industry.
Emergency arts funding: must benefit communities beyond big cities
The UK government has announced that it will support the arts and culture industry - which is suffering heavy losses through the COVID-19 crisis - with a £1.57bn emergency support package. Experts in theatre and culture from the University of ÌÇÐÄTV react.
The challenge facing our creative industries - expert comment
As the Chancellor prepares to announce a package of support for workers whose jobs are at risk because of COVID19, Dr Heidi Ashton from the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies highlights the particular challenges for people in the creative sector.