Social Progress Cities Summit
On December 14th 2020, I hosted the second European Social Progress Cities Summit here in Umeå. It brought together policymakers and political leaders from cities and regions at the top end of the new...
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Claybourne in print
An academic working in the UK was in touch several years back because she was planning to include an analysis of a sci-fi / thriller / soap opera radio series I made in the late 90s in her PhD. She...
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Reggae Nation(s)
I’ve had a Flickr account for around 16 years, and while I haven’t done so for some time, occasionally I’ll send it a bunch of my photos, many of which I make publicly accessible. I tend not to think...
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The Covid-appropriate pleasures of listening to music you don’t know, curated for you by polite strangers with impressive record collections. Listen to this blog post...
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Curriculum Vitae – Verbis Pluribus
The subject of my career has been under discussion of late. Not that I have any plans to change it – but rather the conversation has concerned how I might wish to communicate what it is that I do, and...
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Monkey on the Roof
In 2010, I was working as a researcher for a Media and Cultural Studies department at a UK university, and my work was primarily practice-based field research. That is, rather than sit in a library,...
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Ashley’s Worlds
In 1996, I’d recently quit my job as Production Manager at Radio Pacific – a nationwide talkback station in New Zealand. I’d just spent 5 years in a darkened studio making radio commercials, music...
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The Jura Project
A decade or so back, alongside a burgeoning academic career in a Media and Cultural Research centre as well as a fair bit of international travel giving keynote speeches at music industry events...
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A colleague of mine is at SXSW right now, and sent me a link to $STREAM, a new tokenised research framework for the music industry. $STREAM is led by Cherie Hu, whose work I know fairly well, we’ve...
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Late last year I spent some time in Aveiro, Portugal filming a short documentary, which was released officially last month. Wetlands has already been accepted to three major international film...
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