Miranda Campbell
Associate Professor
The Creative School
School of Creative Industries
Toronto, Ontario
miranda.campbell@torontomu.ca
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(416) 979-5000 ext. 553519
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Bio/Research
The challenges of entering and making a living in the creative industries are increasingly well documented, but further understanding of both the sources and potential solutions to the problems of diversity, equity, and inclusion in this sector is needed. My research agenda investigates this need...
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Bio/Research
The challenges of entering and making a living in the creative industries are increasingly well documented, but further understanding of both the sources and potential solutions to the problems of diversity, equity, and inclusion in this sector is needed. My research agenda investigates this need, seeking to better understand both organizational structures and cultural policy, while also mapping emerging responses, lived realities, and experiences of creative work. My research broadly examines the creative industries in Canada, but this research also demonstrates an awareness that the Canadian creative industries are embedded in a globalized world, where digitization has both enabled and constrained meaningful opportunities for creative work across national contexts. Methodologically, I primarily work qualitatively, informed by phenomenological, oral history, and cultural mapping frameworks. With this cultural mapping lens, I seek to better register both tangible and intangible cultural values, and have also employed quantitative means to measure and assess emerging cultural forms and labour market experiences. As I increasingly work with communities to better understand their needs, I also work with participatory action research, co-creation, and arts-based methodologies. My research is interdisciplinary, working across the fields of youth studies; creative industries; and feminist economics. I work from a creative ecology framework for the creative industries, providing the conceptual means to make bridges across sectors (economy, culture, social life); to highlight the instrumental and the intrinsic values of culture; to map the relationships between sectors of the creative economy (large vs. small; established vs. emerging); and to register the lived experiences and embodied processes of engaging with culture. I am guided by three focuses in my research agenda: 1) Emerging Cultural Trends in the Creative Industries; 2) Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Creative Industries Work; and 3) Fostering Connected Communities.
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