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Arts Professional

Creating and curating the most relevant content for those with a professional interest in the arts sector. Delivering a quality news and information service that will help you get the most out of your professional practice.

Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases

Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases brings fashion business to life and creates a link between education and industry. Designed to help students develop the essential business skills required by the next generation of fashion industry professionals, this digital resource is global in focus and presents real-world cases on challenges facing the business of fashion, tackling important issues such as sustainability, technology, ethics, and leadership. 

Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre

The Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC) provides independent research and authoritative recommendations to aid the development of policies for the UK's creative industries, contributing to their continued success. We do this by asking some of the best researchers across the UK the most pressing questions about the sector.

Creative and Cultural Skills

Creative and Cultural Skills work across the UK to create a fair and skilled cultural sector by shaping skills, education and employment best practice. Through a programme of training, tools & resources, events, one to one support, sector updates and research, we provoke action and enable learning opportunities that drive change and help to build an inclusive skilled sector.

Culture Case

CultureCase comprises a vast array of carefully selected academic research from universities and scholars around the world that can add value to the work of the cultural sector.

Creative Industries Journal 

The scope of the Creative Industries Journal is global, primarily aimed at those studying and practicing activities which have their origin in individual creativity, skill and talent, and which have a potential for wealth creation. These activities primarily take place in advertising, architecture, the art and antiques market, crafts, design, fashion, film, interactive leisure software, music, the performing arts, publishing, television and radio.

Nesta Creative Economy and Culture

Nesta conducts groundbreaking quantitative research on the creative economy. They also build interactive data visualisations to support policy at a local level - such as mapping the economic importance of creativity in local areas; and the skills needs of a creative workforce.

Oxford Art Online – Art Markets

Explore the new Grove Art subject guide on the art market, which brings together articles related to finance, art law, provenance, cultural heritage, collecting, connoisseurship, galleries, auction houses, and dealers.

WARC

WARC helps you to plan, create and deliver more effective marketing.

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