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Director: Impacts 08 - The Liverpool Model (since April 2006; contributor as external collaborator since July 2005). Longitudinal research programme into the long term cultural, social, economic and environmental impacts of Liverpool's becoming 2008 European Capital of Culture. The programme has been commissioned by the Liverpool City Council and is jointly developed by the University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University. [Programme website]
 

Research Council funded research

Principal Investigator (with Dr Steven Miles and Dr Alan Southern) Cultural Sustainability? Liverpool in 2008 - AHRC and ESRC Impact Fellowship to study the cultural policy implications of hosting the 2008 European Capital of Culture in Liverpool. [Research Background]

Other Charities funded research

Cultural programming at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games  (2008) - Research funded by the Universities' China Committee in London. This project involves field work during the Beijing Olympic Games. This work involves working as an embedded journalists/researcher within the Non-Accredited Media Centre at the Olympic Games, through which the communication of cultural aspects of the Games takes place.

Co-investigator (with Dr Andy Miah): Towards London 2012: Non-accredited Media, Cultural Discourses, and Olympic Host City Identity (since January 2006) - Research funded by the British Academy. We are undertaking fieldwork at the Turin Winter Olympic Games (February 2006), pre-Olympic Beijing (September 2006) and regular observations with the London Organising Committee for the 2012 Olympic Games (2006-7).
[Research Background]