Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship

The Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship (ICCE) provides a unique environment to study and research, with world leading academic thinkers within a university globally recognised for its research excellence.

ICCE is the editorial home of leading journals Theory Culture & Society – ranked No.1 in Cultural Studies over the last five years – and Body & Society.

The department welcomes proposals from highly qualified individuals who wish to pursue PhD degrees. These research projects should be of the highest quality, in keeping with Goldsmiths' reputation as a leading producer of exceptional research.

Research Areas We are particularly interested in hearing from people interested in carrying out research into:

+ Cultural and creative entrepreneurship

+ Creative industries

+ Business models for the creative economy

+ Social entrepreneurship

+ Cultural tourism

+ Culture and regeneration

+ Cultural relations and diplomacy

+ Audience development

+ Cultural policy

+ Consumer culture

+ The body

+ Visual culture

+ Urban culture

Current PhD studies being undertaken in ICCE include: + 21st century competencies

+ Leadership of arts and cultural organisations

+ Personalisation of the arts offer

+ Value and how to assess this in the creative industries

+ Audience development

+ The business of comedy

+ Applied conceptual art

+ Cultural diplomacy

+ Urban mobility experience and transport

+ Urban culture and the open city

+ Food culture