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Published Academic Papers & Book Chapters

The final draft of the following papers are made available for research purpose. As these are all draft version of the published papers, please get in touch with the author if you want to quote them or double-check with the final journal publication

2019

Ashton, D and Comunian R (2019), “Universities as Creative Hubs: Modes and practices in the UK context”, forthcoming In: R Gill, A. Pratt and T Virani, eds. Creative Hubs in Question: Place, Space and Work in the Creative Economy. Palgrave.  working paper

2018

Brook, Scott, and Roberta Comunian (2018) "“Dropping Out and Working”: The Vocational Narratives of Creative Graduates." In The Palgrave Handbook of Creativity at Work, pp. 125-141. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham  Working paper version

2017

Comunian R and Conor B (2017) Making cultural work visible in cultural policy, in Durrer, Victoria , Toby Miller and Dave O’Brien (eds.) , "The Routledge Handbook of Global Cultural Policy" (Abingdon: Routledge), pp.265-280 download working paper version

2016

Comunian R and Can Seng Ooi (2016)  Global aspirations and local talent: the development of Creative Higher Education in Singapore,  International Journal of Cultural Policy , Vol. 22, Issue 1 Link to Journal / Link to Pre-print version
Brook, S. (2016). The exemplary economy: a Hunterian reading of the creative industries as educative project In: International Journal of Cultural Policy, 22, 27 - 40

​Comunian R, Faggian A and S Jewell (forthcoming/2016) Graduates Migration in the UK: an exploration of gender dynamics and employment patterns in Corcoran J and Faggian A (eds) Where do smart people go? Graduate migration and regional development: an international perspective, Edward Elgar, New Horizons in Regional Science Series.

England L and Comunian R (2016) Support or Competition? Assessing the role of HEIs in professional networks and local creative communities: the case of glassmaking in Sunderland in Comunian R and Gilmore A (2016) Beyond the Campus: Higher Education and the Creative Economy, Routledge

Comunian R, Faggian A and S Jewell (2016/forthcoming) Geography, skills and careers patterns at the boundary of creativity & innovation: digital technology and creative arts graduates in the UK, In R Shearmur, C Carrincazeaux and D Doloreux (eds) Handbook on the Geography of Innovation.

Comunian R, Faggian A and S Jewell (2016) Talent on the move: Creative Human Capital Migration patterns in UK  in Comunian R and Gilmore A (forthcoming) Beyond the Campus: Higher Education and the Creative Economy, Routledge

Bourdieu, P (2016 [1999]) Thinking About Art - At Art School. Edited Scott Brook, translated Michael Grenfell. Recent Work Press, Canberra.

2015

Comunian, R., Faggian A, S Jewell  (2015). "Digital technology and creative arts career patterns in the UK creative economy." Journal of Education and Work: 1-23. Link to Journal / Link to Working paper version

​Brook, S. (2015). Creative vocations and cultural value In: The Routledge Companion to the Cultural Industries, Routledge, New York, United States

Brook, S. (2015) ‘The Creative Turn in Australian Higher Education’, in R. Comunian and A. Gilmore (eds) Higher Education and the Creative Economy, Routledge, London and New York.

Comunian R, A Gilmore and S Jacobi (2015) Higher education and the creative economy: creative graduates, knowledge transfer and regional impact debates, Geography Compass, 9 (7), 371-383

2014

Faggian, A., Comunian, R., & Li, Q. C. (2014). Interregional migration of human creative capital: The case of “Bohemian graduates”. Geoforum, 55(0), 33-42. Link to Journal  // Link to Working paper version

Comunian, R., & Faggian, A. (2014). Creative Graduates and Creative Cities: Exploring the Geography of Creative Education in the UK. International Journal of Cultural and Creative Industries, 1(2), 19-34. Link to Journal download

Comunian, R., Faggian, A., & Jewell, S. (2014). Embedding arts and humanities in the creative economy: the role of graduates in the UK. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 32(3), 426-450.  Link to Journal   // Link to Working paper version

Comunian, R and A. Faggian (2014) Higher education, human capital, and the creative economy Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 32.3 (2014): 381-383.  Link to Journal // Link to Working Paper Version

Comunian, R. Faggian A and S. Jewell (2014) Exploring music careers: music graduates and early career trajectories in UK in Crossley, Nick, Siobhan McAndrew, and Paul Widdop, eds. Social Networks and Music Worlds. Routledge, 2014, pp. 165-188
Link to the Book Publisher // Link to Working Paper Version

2013

Faggian, A., Comunian, R., Jewell, S., & Kelly, U. (2013). Bohemian Graduates in the UK: Disciplines and Location Determinants of Creative Careers. Regional Studies, 47(2), 183-200.  Link to Journal // Link to Working Paper version 

Brook, S. (2013) ‘Social inertia and the field of creative labour’, Journal of Sociology. 49: 2-3.

2012

Abreu, M., Faggian, A., Comunian, R., & McCann, P. (2012). “Life is short, art is long”: the persistent wage gap between Bohemian and non-Bohemian graduates. The Annals of Regional Science, 49(2), 305-321.  Link to Journal //  

​Brook, S. (2012). Creative Writing, Cultural Capital and the Labour Market In: Australian Humanities Review, 53.

2011

Comunian R, A Faggian, S Jewell (2011), Winning and losing in the c/reative industries. An analysis of creative graduates’ career opportunities across creative disciplines, for the Special Issue “A Golden Age?” Reflections on New Labour’s Cultural Policy and its Post-Recession Legacy, Cultural Trends, Vol 20 (3-4), pp.291-308  Link to Journal // Link to Working Paper version

Comunian R and A Faggian (2011) Higher Education and the Creative City, Book Chapter in Handbook on Cities and Creativity (edited by C Mellander, A Andersson and D Andersson), E. Elgar    Link to Book //

2010

Comunian, R., Faggian, A., & Li, Q. C. (2010). Unrewarded careers in the creative class: The strange case of bohemian graduates. Papers in Regional Science, 89(2), 389-410. Link to Journal // Link to Working Paper