Professor Andy Pratt to become editor of the international journal City, Culture and Society
On 14 December 2012, Professor Andy Pratt visited Osaka City University where he has strong linkages with the Urban Research Plaza, which is noted as a Global Center of Excellence by Japan's ministry of education, culture, sports, science and technology (MEXT) and the home of the MA Creative Cities programme. He took part in seminar.
Andy was also delighted to be invited to become editor of the international journal City, Culture and Society published by Elsevier (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ccs) which is currently managed from Kyoto. This will signal further stronger links between CMCI and Osaka, and HEC in Montreal: the three editorial centres of the journal. Associated with the journal an international conference, the International Association of Urban Creativity Annual Conference, will be hosted at King’s College London in mid- 2013. Andy also discussed plans for this event.
Andy was then invited to Kyoto to Doshisha University on 15 and 16 December 2012 where the Faculty of Economics was marking a move to a new building, and the launch of a new MA Cultural Economics. Andy gave one of the keynote lectures. A video is available here: http://youtu.be/knDqMGC7J_Y Andy also took part in a specialist symposium on cultural economics held the following day.
Professor Andy Pratt has a long-term research linkage with Japan, dating back to 1999; he had a paper published in a Japanese academic journal in 2000 based on research on comparative cultural employment in the UK and Japan. He has maintained research links with colleagues at the Universities of Tokyo, Osaka and Doshisha University in Kyoto since this time returning on a regular basis. He previously carried out research on the advertising industry in Tokyo, and Tokyo was included as one of the cities in the World Cities Culture Report that was published in 2012. It is these strong international linkages, collaborative research and publishing that mark out CMCI as a leader in its field, and as an exemplar at King’s, pursuing a truly international field of study. From a student perspective, these ‘behind the scenes’ linkages provide a robust foundation for our teaching and research that CMCI students benefit from to a significant degree.