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Dr. Miranda Campbell

Associate Professor
EducationPh.D, Education, McGill University (Montreal, CA); MA, English Literature, Concordia University (Montreal, CA); BA, English Literature, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, CA); Certificate, Diversity and Inclusion, Cornell University (online)

Biography

The challenges of entering and making a living in the creative industries are increasingly well documented, but further understanding of both the sources and potential solutions to the problems of diversity, equity, and inclusion in this sector is needed. My research agenda investigates this need, seeking to better understand both organizational structures and cultural policy, while also mapping emerging responses, lived realities, and experiences of creative work. My research broadly examines the creative industries in Canada, but this research also demonstrates an awareness that the Canadian creative industries are embedded in a globalized world, where digitization has both enabled and constrained meaningful opportunities for creative work across national contexts. Methodologically, I primarily work qualitatively, informed by phenomenological, oral history, and cultural mapping frameworks. With this cultural mapping lens, I seek to better register both tangible and intangible cultural values, and have also employed quantitative means to measure and assess emerging cultural forms and labour market experiences. As I increasingly work with communities to better understand their needs, I also work with participatory action research, co-creation, and arts-based methodologies. My research is interdisciplinary, working across the fields of youth studies; creative industries; and feminist economics. I work from a creative ecology framework for the creative industries, providing the conceptual means to make bridges across sectors (economy, culture, social life); to highlight the instrumental and the intrinsic values of culture; to map the relationships between sectors of the creative economy (large vs. small; established vs. emerging); and to register the lived experiences and embodied processes of engaging with culture. I am guided by three focuses in my research agenda: 1) Emerging Cultural Trends in the Creative Industries; 2) Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Creative Industries Work; and 3) Fostering Connected Communities

 

  • Youth culture
  • Cultural policy
  • Creative Labour
  • Critical pedagogy
  • Gender studies
  • Small-scale Cultural Production
  • Creative industries

Books

  • 2013. . McGill Queens鈥檚 University Press. 283 pages.
  • 2022. . Routledge, 228 pages.
  • 2022. . Rowman & Littlefield. 196 pages.
  • 2022. . Co-edited with Cheryl Thompson. Canadian Scholars鈥� Press. 300 pages.

Book Chapters

  • 2018. 鈥淭avi Gevinson: Empowerment for Teenage Girls.鈥� In S. Steinberg, ed. 30 Activists Under 30: Global Youth, Social Justice, and Good Work. Brill Press. pp. 32-39.
  • 2016. 鈥淕irls Rock!: Best Practices in Collaborative Creative Processes at Rock Camp for Girls Montreal.鈥� In A. Gandini and J. Graham, eds. Collaborative Production in the Creative Industries. University of Westminster Press. pp. 177-196.
  • 2015. 鈥淐reative Entrepreneurship in the Cultural Industries: Rhetoric and Realities of Youth Creative Work.鈥� In S. Malliet, A. Dhoest, J. Haers, and B. Segaert, eds. The Borders of Subculture: Resistance and the Mainstream. Routledge. pp. 37-54.
  • 2012. 鈥淵outh Cultural Production and Creative Economies.鈥� In M. Hoechsmann and S. Poyntz, eds. Media Literacy: A Critical Introduction. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. pp. 102-104.

Guest & Keynote Speaking

  • 2023. Keynote address. 鈥淵outh and Emergence, Research and Care Ethics.鈥� Intersections / Cross-sections Communication and Culture graduate student conference. 成人大片.
  • 2022. Keynote address. 鈥淐are Ethics for the Creative Industries.鈥� Engage Journal Issue 46 launch.
  • 2019. Keynote address. A Collaborative Turn: Youth-led Organizing and Communities of Care.鈥� Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies graduate conference. York University, Toronto, Canada.
  • 2018. Organizer and moderator of panel discussion. 鈥淔ostering Inclusive Spaces and Scenes: Lessons from the Community Arts Sector.鈥� Pop Montreal Symposium, Montreal, Quebec.
  • 2018. Presentation of research project and preliminary results. 鈥淐ommunity Youth Arts Programs as Creative Industries Incubators.鈥� City of Toronto, Economic Development and Culture Division.
  • 2017. Moderator of panel discussion. 鈥淭he Future of Hip Hop Festivals in Canada.鈥� One Hundred and Fifty Futures of Hip Hop in Canada conference, Toronto, Canada.
  • 2016. Keynote Address. 鈥淐reativity, Commerce, and Community in an Era of Economic Decline: Emerging Directions in Youth Entrepreneurship.鈥� Teaching and Learning Cultural Entrepreneurship conference. Telemark University College, B酶, Norway.
  • 2014. Moderator and Organizer. 鈥淐an Anyone Be a Rock Star?: The Gendered Landscape of Music Scenes and Rock Camp for Girls Montreal.鈥� Panel Discussion and Workshop. Pop Montreal Symposium, Montreal, Quebec.
  • 2014. Panel Discussion. 鈥淧roducteurs culturels et artistes ind茅pendants du Mile End, quelle cohabitation?鈥� M茅moire Mile End, Montreal, Quebec.
  • 2013.  Keynote Address. 鈥淐reative Entrepreneurship and the Cultural Industry.鈥� Youth Subcultures: Download the Drivers conference at University Centre Saint Ignatius, University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Journal Publications

  • 2022. 鈥淪trategies for Social Engagement: Arts-Service Organizations and Organizational Intermediation.鈥� Miranda Campbell, Calla Evans, and Lucy Wowk. Poetics. 92(B), 1-12.
  • 2022. 鈥淭ending the Garden: Possibilities and Limitations of Developing Inclusive Environments in the Arts and Culture Sector.鈥� Miranda Campbell and Erika Chung. Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change. 7(1), 1-14.
  • 2021. 鈥淢aking Community Knowledge Visible: Mapping Canadian Arts-Service Organizations as Cultural Research Conduits.鈥� Miranda Campbell, Calla Evans, and Lucy Wowk. Canadian Journal of Communication. 47(1), 79鈥�99.
  • 2021. 鈥淩eimagining the Creative Industries in the Community Youth Arts Sector. Cultural Trends. 30(3), 263-282.
  • 2019. 鈥淔rom Youth Engagement to Creative Industries Incubators: Models of Working with Youth in Community Arts Settings.鈥� Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies. 41(3), 164-192.
  • 2019. 鈥淭heorizing Comic Cons.鈥� Journal of Fandom Studies. Benjamin Woo, Bart Beaty, Miranda Campbell, Brian Johnson. 8(1): 9-31.
  • 2018. 鈥溾�橲hit is Hard, Yo鈥�: Young People Making a Living in the Creative Industries.鈥� International Journal of Cultural Policy. 26(4): 524-543
  • 2016. 鈥淒ownward Mobility and the Individualization of Youth Struggle: Girls as Public Pedagogy.鈥� Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures. 8(1): 180-201.
  • 2007. 鈥淭he Mocking Mockumentary and the Ethics of Irony.鈥� Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education. 11(1), 53-62.
General Audience Publications
  • 2020.  Research Report. Miranda Campbell, Calla Evans, and Lucy Wowk, in collaboration with Mass Culture.
  • 2018. . Research Report.
  • 2018. 鈥�.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Maisonneuve Magazine. Issue 69. pp. 16-21.
  • 2016. 鈥�.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Maisonneuve Magazine. Issue 60. pp. 28-35.
  • 2016.   . Podcast (6 episodes).
  • 2015. 鈥�.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Jacobin.
  • 2015. 鈥�.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Noisey.
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Other Notable Works

  • 2019-2020: Mapping Canadian Arts-Service Organizations as Cultural Research Conduits (SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant; Principal Investigator, in collaboration with Mass Culture).
  • 2017-2019: Community Youth Arts Programs as Creative Industries Incubators (SSHRC Insight Development; Principal Investigator)
  • 2017-2020: Comic-Cons: An Urban Media Industry (SSHRC Partnership Development Grant; Co-Investigator with Principal Investigator Ben Woo and Co-Investigators Brian Johnson and Bart Beaty)

Research Projects

Current Research Projects
  • Principal Applicant and Project Co-Director. 鈥淢apping the Music Industries.鈥� SSHRC Partnership Development Grant.
  • Principal Investigator, 鈥淧eer-to-Peer Learning for Inclusive Environments for the Creative Industries.鈥� Justice, Equity, and Community Initiatives grant, The Creative School, 成人大片.
Past Research Projects
  • 2019-2020: Mapping Canadian Arts-Service Organizations as Cultural Research Conduits (SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant; Principal Investigator, in collaboration with Mass Culture).
  • 2017-2019: Community Youth Arts Programs as Creative Industries Incubators (SSHRC Insight Development; Principal Investigator)
  • 2017-2020: Comic-Cons: An Urban Media Industry (SSHRC Partnership Development Grant; Co-Investigator with Principal Investigator Ben Woo and Co-Investigators Brian Johnson and Bart Beaty)

  • 2020. Ryerson University YSGS Award for Outstanding Contribution to Graduate Education
  • 2014. Out of the Basement shortlisted for the Donner Prize for the Best Public Policy Book by a Canadian
  • 2014. Out of the Basement shortlisted for the Gertrude Robinson Book Prize for the Best Communication Studies Book in Canada