Towards the London East Bank: Scoping Study for a new Culture & Education District

I directed this scoping study with my team at the Institute of Cultural Capital for the Arts and Humanities Research Council in 2017.

The study assessed the value of the emerging Culture and Education District (CED, rebranded as East Bank since 2018) in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. This is a case study of a ‘creative clustering’ in the making.

The study involved ten months of expert observation and analysis by a multidisciplinary research team led by Dr Beatriz Garcia, with Dr Michael Atkins as lead research support and Stephen Crone as report editing assistant.

In conducting this study, the Institute of Cultural Capital & the University of Liverpool led two areas of research (Image and Governance strand) and worked in collaboration with four other stakeholders who lead on three additional areas :

  • the What Works Research Centre & the London School of Economics (Economic strand),
  • City University (Creative strand) and
  • Loughbourough University (Social strand).

Find below access to the main reports produced as part of this research.

Areas of assessment: Potential impact areas

Background material

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