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Simone Wesner

Positions held:
  • Reader in Creative Industries Policy and Management, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
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  • Overview

    Overview

    Highlights

    • My work focuses on understanding cultural producers (artists and crafters) and their practice. In particular, I am interested in constructions of cultural value and artistic identity as placed in the interface between cultural policy and arts management.听

      My book , was published in 2018听by Palgrave Macmillan/Springer.

      Currently, I am working on听the Dataweave project, investigating cultural value creation such as听provenance at the intersection of traditional cultures of making and digital maker culture.听

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    Administrative responsibilities

    • Programme Director, MA in Arts Policy and Management

    Honours and awards

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  • Research

    Research

    Research interests

    • artists cultural policies
    • craft cultures (weaving values and provenance)
    • methodologies (grounded theory, longitudinal research, participatory databases)

    Research overview

    My research focuses on artistic and cultural careers and the development of working and cultural practises as seen through a cultural policy lens. I am largely interested in non-economic value creation and how cultural, political and social change influences career development and artistic practice over time. I designed and work with data from the听Visual Artists Cohort Study, one of the first longitudinal projects in this field that investigates the long-term impact of East/West regime change on career development. As cultural policy researcher, I work inter-disciplinarily, drawing from cultural and communication studies, human philosophy, artist management and cultural sociology. In methodological terms, I feel at home when using a grounded theory approach to explore and interpret experiences.

    Research Centres and Institutes

    • member,
    • FMACS representative,
    • member,

    Research projects

    Provenance and the crafts: Warping the loom

    Abstract

    I am currently working on 鈥淧rovenance and the crafts: Warping the loom鈥 a听mapping and scoping study that prepares and develops researching provenance in a larger-scale project:听Weaving your way through the blockchain. The initial research is directed to partnering with provenance-interested craft producers, academics, IT specialists, archivists and craft policymakers. Aiming to address a combination of aesthetic (value creation), environmental (supply chain management) and social (consumer ethics and community approach) issues and responsibilities, the project facilitates the introduction of a blockchain-based research and recording system at the end of the larger-scale project. I want to look beyond the profit-oriented approach by developing alternative forms of care and service in the craft industry. Researching provenance by using information technology will open and secure potential alternative uses, exploring new ways of community archives and at the same time providing professional development for weavers.

  • Supervision and teaching

    Supervision and teaching

    Supervision

    Supervisions within 糖心logo入口:
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    Areas of research supervision:

    • Arts policy and artists鈥 careers,
    • Artistic identity and professionalisation of artists,
    • Cultural value creation in craft production,
    • Virtual arts environments,
    • Grounded theory

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    Current doctoral researchers

    • MAOLIN YANG
      Nature of supervision:
      JOINT PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR,
      Title of thesis:
      Museum Selfies as Cultural Co-creation in Art Museums: Embodied Performance, Cultural Capital, and Cultural Norms

    Teaching

    In my teaching, I bring together current cultural policy developments and interpretations of culture with practical managerial issues in a reflective and critical approach to arts management. 

    Teaching modules

    • Audiences: Communities, Participation and Learning
    • Career Development and Professional Pathways in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
    • Dissertation
    • Understanding Creative Industries Management and Policy
    • Industry Placement/Career Development Report
    • Researching the Creative Industries
    • Inside Out of Culture: organisations, placements and practice
  • Publications

    Publications

    Article

    • Wesner, Simone (2022) . International Journal of Cultural Policy 28 (7), pp. 858-874. ISSN 1028-6632.
    • Lee, H.-K. and Wesner, Simone (2018) . International Journal of Cultural Policy 24 (1), pp. 142-143. ISSN 1028-6632.
    • Wesner, Simone (2010) . International Journal of Cultural Policy 16 (4), pp. 433-448. ISSN 1028-6632.
    • Hitchcock, M. and Simone, Wesner (2009) . Asia Pacific Business Review 15 (2), pp. 265 -282. ISSN 1360-2381.
    • Wesner, Simone and Hitchcock, M. and Putra, D.I.N. (2007) . Indonesian and Malay World 102, pp. 211-230. ISSN 1363-9811.
    • M眉ller-Rolli, S. and Wesner, Simone (1992) . Neue Sammlungen 3, pp. 405-424.

    Book

    • Wesner, Simone (2024) . Routledge Research in the Creative and Cultural Industries. London, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780367753054.
    • Wesner, Simone (2018) . New Directions in Cultural Policy Research. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillian. ISBN 9783319760568.
    • Wesner, Simone, ed. (1998) . Leipzig, Germany: Universit盲tsverlag Leipzig.
    • Wesner, Simone and Palka, A. (1997) . Strasbourg, France: Council of Europe.

    Book review

    • Wesner, Simone (2025) .
    • Wesner, Simone (2022) .
    • Wesner, Simone (2020) .

    Book section

    • Wesner, Simone and Wright, D. (2026) . In: Kleppe, B. and Primorac, J. and Pyykk枚nen, M. and Wright, D. (eds.) Creative and Cultural Work in Europe. Routledge, Taylor & Francis. pp. 35-48. ISBN 9781032978130.
    • Wesner, Simone (2022) . In: DeVereaux, C. (ed.) Managing the Arts and Culture: Cultivating a Practice. Abingdon, UK and New York, U.S.: Taylor & Francis. pp. 347-373. ISBN 9780367622619 and 9780367622633.
    • Ferdinand, N. and Wesner, Simone and Chidzey, M. and Rossetti, G. (2021) . In: Ferdinand, N. and Kitchin, P.J. (eds.) Events Management: An international Approach, Third Edition. Hospitality, Travel & Tourism Management. London, UK: Sage. pp. 41-60. ISBN 9781529730791.
    • Wesner, Simone (2017) . In: Ferdinand, N. and Kitchin, P.J. (eds.) Events Management: An International Approach. Sage. ISBN 9781473919099.
    • Wesner, Simone (2013) . In: Childs, M. and Peachy, A. (eds.) Understanding Learning in Virtual Worlds. Human鈥揅omputer Interaction Series. Springer. pp. 117-133. ISBN 9781447153696.

    Editorial

    • Wesner, Simone and Woddis, J. (2022) . Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy 8 (2), pp. 11-29. The Association for Cultural Management. ISSN 2701-8466.