Research and Teaching Portfolio
Research
Nick’s substantive research interests converge at the intersection between creativity, aesthetic experience, artistic performance, entrepreneurship and cultural production. He is particularly interested in how philosophical, aesthetic, educational, creativity, therapeutic, and entrepreneurship theories can be integrated to help us better understand how we bring new and valuable things into being. Nick is currently working on papers in critical entrepreneurship studies, an analytical history of the early music revival, as well as critical realist re-conceptualizations of (social) creativity, art and entrepreneurship.
Selected research projects
The entrepreneur and the corporate workplace, for Cripps Sears & Partners. (2008-9)
Creative Industries Data and Intelligence Framework, for the London Development Agency (2003-4)
Evaluation of the regional Arts Lottery Programme and ACE Expenditure across the regions, for Arts Council of England, (2001-2).
Banking on a hit: The funding dilemma for Britain’s music businesses, for Department of Culture, Media and Sport (2001).
Teaching
Nick teaches two optional modules on the MA CCI Programme – Art of Management: Management of Art, and Contextualising Creativity. He is also Academic Director of the Internship module. Elsewhere, Nick is involved in teaching entrepreneurship (e.g. Aarhus University’s International Masters in Entrepreneurship Education) and creative leadership (as a Visiting Fellow with the Institute for the Spoken Word).