Leverhulme ECF @CCMPSWarwickUni. Interested in museums, austerity, museum closures, commercialisation, professional ethics and policy.
Joined January 2012
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8 Jul 2021
Woken up this morning wanting to know how local government spending on culture has changed since the onset of austerity? My paper with @Peter_Soc is available open access @CulturalTrends_ looking at spending patterns between 2009/10 - 2018/19 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…. #museums
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11 Nov 2024
New in LGS@50 in '‘Change? Decay? Promise?: fifty years of local government cultural services in the UK' @bethanyrex &Clive Gray show how ideological preferences of different administrations have created a highly uncertain&challenging operating environment tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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28 Oct 2024
Now out & Open Access from @bethanyrex & Clive Gray
‘Change? Decay? Promise?: fifty years of local government cultural services in the UK 👇👇tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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📢🔥 New Call for Papers for a new themed issue...
How Places are Contesting the Privatisation of Local Public Services
academic.oup.com/cjres/pages…
Abstracts due but 1st November 2024
Editors: @JudithClifton6, Ron Martin, @_mia_gray, David McDonald
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5 Apr 2024
Niche request - anyone use NVivo 14 on Mac find it crashes each time you hit the CAPS key?! Any fixes?
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5 Mar 2024
Lovely to see my work with @Peter_Soc cited in this think-piece linked to the @BritishAcademy_ cultural infrastructure project. Feel like I only ever tweet about that article which is funny what with it being an unexpected lockdown project.
. @LGAcomms think piece—The case for "cultural infrastructure"
@michaelkenny_, @OJGarling & @StephCoulter8 highlight the value & impact of culture, heritage & sport not only economically but also in shaping people’s sense of wellbeing & local attachment.
local.gov.uk/topics/culture-…
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26 Feb 2024
Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies, University of Warwick, is excited to announce our One Day Postgraduate Conference: Being Human in the Media & Creative Industries: Policies and Practices, CFP: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapv… 19th June 2024.
@CCMPSWarwickUni @ArtsWarwick
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19 Feb 2024
Reposting this as citizens' assemblies are in the news. Here I explore their use in #broadcasting #policy and #Regulation
4 Jul 2023
My recent piece in @IRPP Policy Options: citizen assemblies & broadcasting regulation #c11 policyoptions.irpp.org/magaz…
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5 Feb 2024
A great piece of work! @BenWalmsley: "To demystify the processes involved in policymaking, the @valuingculture collaborated with the @DCMS to develop a new resource for academic researchers: How to shape cultural policy through research" timeshighereducation.com/cam…
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31 Jan 2024
Great to see cuts to culture being discussed in @guardian but these averages create a false picture of similarity. As my work w/ @Peter_Soc shows, the real story is not about uniform cuts but variation and thus deepening inequalities in service provision. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
28 Jan 2024
Analysis by @guardian shows between 2010-11 & 2022-23 real terms council spending fell in all areas bar social care:
- cultural services cut by 43%,
- roads & transport by 40%
- housing by 35%
- planning & development by a third
And more planned cuts ahead…
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Bethany Rex retweeted
17 Jan 2024
Working on #museums and heritage, care work, care ethics, emotion work, hope ...? get in touch
CFP edited book info below
@SDObjects @LeicsMusStud
4 Jan 2024
CFP for an edited collection with @SDObjects from @LeicsMusStud on care and museum work.
We welcome contributions from across disciplines, and reflections from practice
To view our call for papers, visit:
drive.google.com/file/d/1jHH…
@Crit_Heritage
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Bethany Rex retweeted
17 Jan 2024
Anyone working on #culturalpolicy in Canada since 2015 (J Trudeau era)? #canadianculturalpolicy
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16 Jan 2024
I was lucky enough to have a sneak preview of this and can say it's great - must read for anyone interested not only in parks but also local government & cultural/social infrastructure
15 Jan 2024
So it turns out Blue Monday is when Culture, Participation, Policy and the Municipal Public Park is published @Palgrave
Thanks to everyone who helped get it out - for all who love & understand the cultural importance of parks 💚
Link here (not yet OA): link.springer.com/book/97830…
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10 Jan 2024
Really need to get on with writing my book on museum closures
8 Jan 2024
Hampshire Cultural Trust (HCT) has given Fareham Borough Council 12 months’ notice that it will be closing Westbury Manor Museum at the end of this year
fareham.gov.uk/latest_news/p…
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"It is with huge disappointment, that I received the news this week that from April 2024 the City Council is proposing that they no longer support Watershed with cultural funding"
Our CEO @clarered on this & the many ways we deliver on the city's mission:
watershed.co.uk/articles/bri…
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Bethany Rex retweeted
27 Nov 2023
Published today, this insightful book addresses the underrepresentation of motherhood in museums. The author, Louise-Clarke, argues that museums wield the power to influence what we think about families, mothers & the labour of care. routledge.com/Museum-Represe… @RoutledgeHist
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8 Nov 2023
hey @greateranglia - do you still do the 90 min service Norwich - London? Can't see it on the timetable.
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Obviously there are a LOT of things we could say abut this, but we'll let you digest the news first...
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30 Oct 2023
Published today, this fab. volume (ed. by @BreakellSue & @wendyaleasha) is the first to bring together a range of methodological approaches to the materiality of archives, as a framework for their engagement, analysis & interpretation. routledge.com/The-Materialit… @routledgebooks
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24 Oct 2023
Culture should be seen as part of essential infrastructure provision, alongside other vital public services, say @PatrycjaKasz and @jimpurnell of @UAL artsprofessional.co.uk/magaz…
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