He has written extensively on the sociology of culture, including on urban regeneration, cultural consumption, cultural policy, and creative industries. For anyone who works in British culture, or cares who does, or simply values true equality of opportunity, this is essential reading.

Some of our participants were senior White men from middle-class backgrounds who are working, or who have worked, in senior roles in cultural organisations. Especially in a pandemic, we should attribute more value to how culture is lived informally at home and on the streets. Having said that I do believe everyone who works in the industry should read it because it’s only through understanding the inequalities can we begin to work on change. Orian Brook is an AHRC Creative and Digital Economy Innovation Leadership Fellow at the University of Edinburgh Dave O'Brien is a Chancellor's Fellow in Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Edinburgh Mark Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods at the University of Sheffield -- . Henna tells us some of our reasons why we’ve written this book, and why we’ve given it the provocative title of Culture is bad for you.Dr Orian Brook is Chancellor’s Fellow in Social Policy, in the University’s School of Social and Political Science, and a member of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport’s College of Experts.

Dr Brook’s work attracted impact accelerator backing for Arts Emergency’s Youth Collective of young creatives in their early 20s aiming to work in CCIs. What kinds of policies on culture should the current government adopt to deliver the promise of ‘levelling up’ the North? Culture is Bad For You, by Orian Brook, Dave O’Brien and Mark Taylor, is published by Manchester University Press. Dave O’Brien is Chancellor’s Fellow in Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Edinburgh.So identity simultaneously generates equality and inequality, between identification by association, and identity by exclusion and differentiation; it is both the engine of public life, and the cause of its confusion and conflict. Culture is sometimes narrated as a place where anyone can make it and thrive; we show that it’s much easier for some people than it is for others.

Throughout, Culture Is Bad For You consistently points out the intersections between these inequalities. It explores unequal access to cultural education and demonstrates the importance of culture in childhood. N1 - Maggie Cronin is an actress, playwright and director currently undertaking a PhD at Queen’s University Belfast. As we recover and rebuild, a ‘business as usual’ cultural sector will struggle to find legitimacy if it reverts back to an exclusive workforce and an exclusive audience.COVID has exposed and reinforced the longstanding, embedded, structural inequalities that characterise the cultural sector. It’s for this reason that I don’t think it’ll be possible to transform inequalities in the cultural sector by addressing the cultural sector alone.