Karen Seaward-Patel

New fully funded PhD opportunity with me and @culturecentral.bsky.social as part of the CreaTech Frontiers Collaborative Doctoral Award Scheme. Email me if you have any questions about the project, deadline is 10th April!
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Craft Futures: Entrepreneurship, Sustainability and Cross-Cultural Exchange Craft Futures aims to advance research and advocacy on the links between craft and fashion-based entrepreneurship and sustainable development.

Excited for this in Melbourne, 20th March. Registration now open! www.rmit.edu.au/about/school... looking forward to sharing the stage with @susanluckman.bsky.social

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Masters by Research in Creative Arts - MRes - 2025/26 Entry The MRes in Creative Arts provides you with the specialist research skills and transferable attributes to prepare you for professional research careers in the creative industries, academia and beyond....

Come and do a Creative Arts Masters by Research with me as and @karenpatel.bsky.social at BCU! www.bcu.ac.uk/mres-creativ... Its a stepping stone to doing a PhD but even if a PhD is not for you, an MRes is a great qualification to gain new skills & develop your creative practice.

Lorna is not on here but she is on Instagram at lhamiltonbrown

In Conversation with… Lorna Hamilton-Brown: Who’s Getting a Seat at the Table? Published in TEXTILE: Cloth and Culture (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Thank you Lorna.
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Karen Patel presenting at the conference

A great couple of days so far at @sasemeeting.bsky.social in Montreal for the craft mini conference. Enjoyed talking about my book this morning, and hearing great presentations on all things craft and neo-craft from the fabulous presenters

Today!

Safe for Work? Conversations about harm and the creative industries The creative industries are often associated with pleasure but what about the harms associated with cultural work?

Free event! 'Safe for Work? Conversations about harm &the creative industries' May 9, Aston Uni, Birmingham

Talks: Rohit Dasgupta, Tanya Horeck, Yuval Katz, Amelia Knott, Vicki Mayer, George Musgrave, Jack Newsinger, Karen Patel, Emily Coleman, Anamik Saha, Nina Willment, Mhairi Brennan, Helen Wood

Safe for Work? Conversations about harm and the creative industries The creative industries are often associated with pleasure but what about the harms associated with cultural work?

Really looking forward to this event and the conversations to be had. www.eventbrite.com/e/safe-for-w...

Media and Cultural Studies - PhD - 2025/26 Entry Study a PhD in Media and Cultural Studies at Birmingham City University.

I am available to supervise PhD students interested in the creative industries, inequalities, craft, and social media platforms. Find out more: www.bcu.ac.uk/courses/medi...

In "Through the looking glass", Sarah Banet-Weiser and @jillybkay.bsky.social argue that grasping the dynamics of ‘mirroring’ in digital culture is crucial for analyzing contemporary #gender politics as it plays out in an increasingly reactionary terrain.

Read: doi.org/10.1177/1367... #feminism

@angelamcrobbie.bsky.social

Final talk is from @drshardiabpalmer.bsky.social on Black girls, representation and intersectionality. "The lack of representation is not an issue now, it's what is being represented and how". So true!

Great talk by
@mindyptolomey.bsky.social on zine making and visible mending as research methods

Great to hear Prof Angela McRobbie speaking about her work on girls studies and her time at the Birmingham CCCS

CEDIA Conference: Inequalities and Diversity in the Arts and Creative Industries This conference by CEDIA, the Centre for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Arts, took place on Thursday 16th January in the Parkside building at BCU. This was the first ever academic conference...

A recap of the CEDIA conference which took place earlier this month. Thanks to all presenters and everyone involved!
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CEDIA conference: Inequalities and Diversity in the Media and Creative Industries This conference, hosted by the Centre for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Arts (CEDIA) at Birmingham City University, aims to bring together research focusing on the conditions of work in the...

Looking forward to hosting this hybrid conference on 16th January, with 40+ speakers from around the world and the fabulous Subhadra Das as keynote. It will be hybrid so you can sign up and view the programme here:

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We've started a cultural studies starter pack

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Its #13 on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Critical Theory countdown to xmas! Today we've got @karenpatel.bsky.social on the brilliant "Craft as a Creative Industry" newbooksnetwork.com/craft-as-a-c... 1/2