Dr Tarek Virani

• Position:Associate Professor - Creative Industries
• Department:ACE - Creative and Cultural Industries
• Telephone:+44117 965 6261
• Email:Tarek.Virani@uwe.ac.uk

About me

Tarek joined UWE in 2020 and is Associate Professor of Creative Industries at the School of Arts - College of Arts, Technology and Environment (CATE). His research interests in the creative industries includes: Organisational resilience, urban and cultural policy, creative and cultural ecosystems, post-creative cities, culture-led regeneration and cultural districts, creative and cultural hubs and international dimensions of creative and cultural work and policy.

Recent and current projects:

• Place Partnerships programme (WECA/Arts Council England - current)
• Creating an evaluation framework for Meanwhile spaces –Sparks Bristol (with Elahe Karimnia – internally funded - current)
• Bristol and Bath Creative R and D. (AHRC - current).
• Mayor of London's Creative Enterprise Zones evaluation (GLA - 2021 – 2023).
• Covid 19, Creative Economy Resilience and Recovery (ESRC – 2020-2022)
  
• Creative Workforce for the Future. (WECA - 2020 – 2023).
• The impact of Covid-19 on the creative sector – (Internally funded - 2020 – 2021).

Recent policy work:

• The creative enterprise zone evaluation report (2023).

Recent and upcoming talks and keynotes:

• January 16th 2024. Panelist. Promoting the Cultural & Creative Industries: Meeting Challenges & Building on Success. Public Policy Exchange.
• November 1st, 2023. Panelist. Weaving the threads of diversity in the CCI. City, University of London. CIRCE programme.
• September 8th, 2023. Panel Chair. Changing the Status Quo: Residencies, higher education and alternative pathways. Mind the Gap: Designing residencies for everyone – London Conference 2023. Bloomsbury Theatre, UCL.
• July 4th, 2023. Panel chair. Screen sector growth in the nations and regions. British Screen Forum. London.
• June 8th, 2023. Espai Crater Centre 'Beyond the Creative City'. Olot, Spain.
• May 18th, 2023. Creative Enterprise Zones and Organizational Resilience. University of Toronto.
• February 22nd – 24th, 2023. Creative Hubs resilience and self-assessment bootcamp. Almaty, Kazakhstan. Counterculture, British Council.
• February 20th, 2023. Creative and Cultural Ecosystems and Organisational Resilience. United Arab Emirates University – Keynote.

 Centres / groups:

• Digital Cultures Research Centre,
• Creative Economies Lab (which he co-led from 2020 – 2023),
• Screen Industries Research Group.

 Other roles:

• Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.
• Board member - Acme Studios.
• Associate Editor - City, Culture and Society.

Area of expertise

Creative and cultural industries, creative economy, creative hubs, knowledge exchange, creative and cultural SMEs, creative and post-creative cities.

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