The conference aims to explore issues and research questions emerging in both academic and policy arenas in reference to the relationship between Higher Education and the Creative Economy.

The event aims to be a platform to debate the knowledge and research available in this field and discuss the potential development of the role of HEI as the creative economy becomes central to the UK economic development.It aims to be multidisciplinary and to involve researchers, academics, practitioners and policy makers at regional, national and international level. 

The key research questions that the network aims to address are:

• What is role of HEIs in developing human caputal (graduates) for the creative economy?
• What is the relationship between human capital and the creative economy?
• What is the broader impact HEIs in the creative economy?

Contact:

Dr Roberta Comunian

School of Geography, University of Southampton, Highfield – Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK

tel.: +44 023 8059 6711

e-mail: R.Comunian@soton.ac.uk

website: www.creative-campus.org.uk