Britain’s cultural and creative industries: open to all or dominated by the privileged few?

Show Notes

In Episode 10 of Linking our Lives, we're joined by Dr Orian Brook, Chancellor’s Fellow in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh. Orian has been using the ONS Longitudinal Study to help investigate whether Britain’s cultural and creative industries are as open to all as some say or whether they remain dominated by the privileged few.

Further information

• Social Mobility and ‘Openness’ in Creative Occupations since the 1970s is open access research by Orian Brook, Andrew Miles, Dave O'Brien and Mark Taylor and is published in the British Sociological Association Journal 
• Culture is bad for you, Inequality in the cultural and creative industries is a book by Orian Brook, Dave O'Brien and Mark Taylor and is published by Manchester University Press and the audio book is is on Spotify 

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What is Linking our Lives?

Linking our Lives: England and Wales since 1971: a podcast about research making use of the ONS Longitudinal Study