Our impact
Our research is directly relevant to users working inside the cultural and media sector, in numerous government departments, and in the private sector. We provide consultancies and work alongside organisations to reflect on appropriate research design.
Our work is regularly reported in all the broadcast media, and has recently been an important part of political debate about banking and financial reform; inequalities in cultural participation in the UK, and BBC policy.
Our annual conferences have become major international events, with several hundred participants from all over the world.
 Sustainability is about culture as well as technology. But how to think about this? CRESC argues that there are no simple solutions. Instead we need to develop different methodological and theoretical tools . |
 Our research with the BBC World Service has found that over 50% of its audiences are diasporic. This raises profound policy questions for both the BBC and Government. |
 Official measures of direct public employment don't work well. CRESC has created a simple method for counting publicly funded private employees. This has raised important political questions about job creation. |
 Class is economic, social and cultural. CRESC is working with the BBC on the Great British Class Survey. Over 160,000 people have completed the survey questionnaire. |
 Are street markets in inevitable decline? CRESC research says they aren't. Our recommendations for helping them to flourish have been successfully adopted by UK local authorities. |
 Coverage of CRESC research and researchers in the media |
 Our partners include academics, and organisations such as: the Department of Media, Culture and Sport; Arts Council England; the BFI; the Office of National Statistics; the BBC; KPMG and Arup. |
