Professor Justin O'Connor

Chair in Cultural Industries
Phone Number 0113 343 8737
Email: m.j.o’connor@leeds.ac.uk    
    
Roles
Programme Manager: MA in Culture, Creativity and Entrepreneurship
Leader of School Cultural Industries Research Grouping
School International Officer
Co-director: Cultural and Media Industries Research Group (CuMIRC)

Current Teaching
Undergraduate – Strategies for Research
Postgraduate – Cultural Policy Issue: Theories (module leader); Research Perspectives, Individual Project, Research Project, Creative Work (module leader), Cultural Policy Issues in Assessment and Evaluation

Research Interests
Cultural and Creative Industries; Cultural Policy; Culture-led Urban Regeneration; Contemporary Urban Cultures; Popular Culture and Aesthetics; Chinese Culture and economy.
Professor O’Connor completed his PhD (French Intellectuals and the People – From Michelet to Sartre) at the University of Sussex in 1989 and became Director of Manchester Institute for Popular Culture, Manchester Metropolitan University in 1995. He was involved in strategies for the 24 hour city, Manchester’s Northern Quarter and the development of the city’s cultural industries through the foundation of the Creative Industries Development Service (www.cids.co.uk), of which he was co-chair until 2006. He remains a director. Since then he has worked on cultural industries and the urban development in Milan, Helsinki, Vienna, Turku, Gothenburg, Berlin, St Petersburg and Shanghai amongst others. He is a co-founder of Forum on Creative Industries (www.foci.org.uk) and has spoken at conferences across the globe.

PHD Students
Current
Young Mi Song: Korean Orchestras and Cultural Policy
Cho Shan: Artists Markets in Taiwan
Yan Hong: Cultural Industry Clusters in China
Haili Heaton: Chinese Opera and the Market Economy in Shanghai
Gwen Marshall: Urban Regeneration and Social Inclusion
Completed
Bob Dickenson (M.Phil): The Alternative Press in Manchester
Katie Milestone: Popular Culture and the City
Martina Boese: Black Music in Manchester
Dave Leggett: Youth, Pop and Metanarrative

Recent publications and documents:
Cultural and Creative Industries: A Review of the Literature, Creative Partnerships, October 2007
Culture and Cities: Challenges for the 5 key cities of Yorkshire and Humber (Key Cities group and Yorkshire Culture Observatory): Vision paper June 2007

In Preparation:
Book: Cultural Industries and the City (Sage)
Co-Edited Book: Creative Economy, Creative Cities – Perspectives from Asia and Europe (Springer, Netherlands)

Selected Publications
(2006)      ‘Art, Popular Culture and Cultural Policy: Variations on a theme of John Carey’, Critical Quarterly, Volume 48, No. 4 Winter pp. 49-104
(2006)      ‘A New Modernity? The Arrival of “Creative Industries” in China’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, Special China Issue, Vol. 9(3) pp. 271-283
(2006)          ‘Creative Industries and Regeneration’, Renew Intelligence Reports, North West Development Agency, April
(2006)         ‘Creating Growth: How can the UK Develop World Class Creative Businesses’, National Endowment of Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA), (with Burns Owens Partnership)
(2005)          ‘“Creative Exports”: Taking ‘Cultural Industries’ to St Petersburg’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, Vol. 11, No.1 March, pp. 45-59
(2004)      ‘“A Special Kind of City Knowledge”: Innovative clusters, tacit knowledge and the ‘Creative City’’, Media International Australia, special issue on Creative Networks, No. 112, August, pp.131-149
(2004)          ‘Cities, Culture and “transitional economies”: Developing Cultural Industries in St Petersburg’ in Power, D and Scott, A, Cultural Industries and the Production of Culture, Routledge, London, 2004, pp. 37-53 [also as ‘Developing Cultural Industries in St Petersburg’ in J. Hartley (ed) Creative Industries, Blackwell, Oxford, 2005 pp. 244 – 258]
(2002)          ‘Public and Private in the Cultural Industries’ in Johansson, T and Sernhede, O (Eds.), Lifestyle, Desire and Politics: Contemporary Identities, Centre for Cultural Studies, University of Gothenburg, pp.15-33 [
(2000)      ‘Local Music Policies within a Global Music Industry: Cultural quarters in Manchester and Sheffield’, Geoforum, Vol. 31 No. 4, pp. 437-451 (With A. Brown and S. Cohen)
(2000)      ‘Risk and Trust in the Cultural Industries’, Geoforum, Vol. 31 No. 4, pp.453-464 (with M. Banks, A. Lovatt, C. Raffo)
(2000)      'The Definition of the Cultural Industries' in The European Journal of Arts Education Vol. 2 No. 3, February , pp. 15-27 Oct.
(2000)          ‘Attitudes to Formal Business Training and Learning amongst Entrepreneurs in the Cultural Industries: situated business learning through ‘doing with others’’. British Journal of Education and Work, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 215-230 (with C. Raffo, M. Banks, A. Lovatt)
(1999)          'Popular Culture, Reflexivity and Urban Change' in Verwijnen, J and Lehtovuori, P (eds.), Creative Cities: Cultural Industries, Urban Development and the Information Society. Helsinki: University of Art and Design
(1998)          ‘Consumption and the Postmodern City’, Urban Studies, Vol. 35, No. 5-6, pp. 841 – 64 (with D. Wynne)