Key Speakers

Dr Steven Hadley

Irish Research Council Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin (Republic of Ireland)

Dr Steven Hadley is an academic, consultant and researcher working internationally in arts management, cultural policy and audience engagement. He is currently a Research Fellow in the School of Creative Arts at Trinity College Dublin and has held research posts at the Universities of Galway, Sheffield, Bradford and Leeds. He is a Visiting Lecturer at Leuphana University of Lüneburg (Germany), where he teaches on the MA in Arts Management. Steven sits on the Steering Committee of the Cultural Research Network (USA) and the Editorial Boards of both Cultural Trends and the European Journal of Cultural Management and Policy. His book, “Audience Development and Cultural Policy” is published by Palgrave MacMillan.

Eleonora Belfiore

Professor in Cultural Policy University of Aberdeen (UK).

Eleonora Belfiore joins Aberdeen from Loughborough University, where she was Professor of Communication and Media Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture, having previously been Reader in Cultural Policy Studies at Warwick University. She has published extensively on cultural politics and policy, and particularly the place that notions of the ‘social impacts’ of the arts have had in British cultural policy discourses.

She is one of the world leading scholars in cultural value research, and was Co-Director of Studies of the Warwick Commission on the Future of Cultural Value (2013-5), and co-author of its influential final report, Enriching Britain: Culture, creativity and growth, published in February 2015. For Palgrave, she edits the book series New Directions in Cultural Policy Research, which has published 16 volumes to date, and she is Co-Editor in Chief journal Cultural Trends.

Ben Walmsley

Dean of Cultural Engagement University of Leeds (UK).

Currently the University’s Dean of Cultural Engagement and also Director of the Centre for Cultural Value – a national research centre funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Arts Council England and Paul Hamlyn Foundation, based at the University of Leeds.

His research encompasses arts management, arts marketing, audience studies and cultural policy, with a focus on audience engagement and enrichment; change management in the arts; and cultural value and leadership.

Prior to his academic career, Ben had 10 years’ experience in arts management, most recently as Producer at the National Theatre of Scotland.

Carla Pinochet Cobos

Anthropologist (Universidad de Chile) and PhD in Cultural Anthropology (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico).

She works as a researcher and teacher on issues of culture, heritage, arts and education. She has presented international conferences and has written several specialized articles on topics such as artistic practices, museums, audiences and cultural policies, including the book “Derivas críticas del Museo en América Latina” (2016). She has been a consultant for local institutions and international organizations such as UNESCO and MINCAP.

Currently, she is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile, director of the Master in Latin American Anthropologies (MANTLAS) and alternate director of the Millennium Nucleus in Musical and Sound Cultures (CMUS).

Dr Hye-Kyung Lee

Professor of Cultural Policy King’s College London (UK).

Dr Hye-Kyung Lee is Reader in Cultural Policy at the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s College London, UK. She is interested in the evolving dynamics between the cultural sector, the state and the market and has worked on cultural policy, arts subsidy, creative industries discourse, cultural fandom and marketing. Her publications include Cultural Policies in East Asia (2014), Asian Cultural Flows (Springer 2018), Cultural Policy in South Korea: Making a New Patron State (Routledge 2019), and Routledge Handbook of Cultural and Creative Industries in Asia (2019). She co-edits Cultural Trends.

Pedro Güell

Sociologist (University of Chile) and a PhD in Sociology (Universität Erlangen -Nürnberg, Germany).

He is a professor at the Faculty of Economics and Administration, Universidad Austral de Chile. President of the Horizonte Ciudadano Foundation; director of various foundations and member of editorial committees of academic and broadcast journals. His topics of him are the Sociology of Culture, Social Temporalities, Public Policies. He was Coordinator of the Human Development Report of the United Nations Development Program between 1996 and 2014, publishing 11 reports. He was the director of Public Policies of the Presidency of the Republic of the Government of Chile between 2014 and 2018. He has a long list of publications in specialized magazines and books.

Ana Wortman

PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires.

She is a researcher at the Gino Germani Institute of the School of Social Sciences and professor of Contemporary Sociology. She is a member of the Mercosur University Network, FOMERCO. She has researched and published on youth identities, Argentine urban middle classes, focusing on film and music consumption; cultural policies in the transition to democracy, cultural initiatives of civil society around the phenomenon of independent culture. More recently she has published on, “Film festivals as cultural policy”, (UAM,2020) and Music festivals, as a new musical experience (Teseo Press 2020). She has been a member of the Cultural Council of the City of Buenos Aires (2018 2020).
She has recently participated in the research “Impact of the pandemic on the performing arts” with Dr Cecilia Dinardi from Goldmisths University UK, a comparative study London, Buenos Aires, funded by the British Academy 2021 2023. The results of this research will be published in an article in press ” It’s been a roller-coaster’: insights from performing artists on the Covid-19 pandemic and cultural policy” which will be published in the journal Cultural Trends.

Justin O’Connor

Professor of Cultural Economy, UniSA Creative, University of South Australia.

Expert of cultural economy theory, research and projects.

Previously Professor of Communications and Cultural Economy at Monash University, Justin is also Visiting Professor, Department of Cultural Industries Management, Shanghai Jiaotong University. Between 2012-18 he was part of the UNESCO ‘Expert Facility’, supporting the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of Cultural Diversity.

Rosario Radakovich

Sociologist (UDELAR) and a PhD in Sociology (Universidade Estadual de Campinas – UNICAMP, Brazil).

Rosario Radakovich is Associate Professor at the Universidad de la República (UDELAR) in Uruguay. She is researcher Level I at the National Agency for Innovation and Research (ANNI). She is currently Academic Coordinator of the Postgraduate Course in Cultural Management at UDELAR, based in the Faculty of Economics and Administration (2021 to date) and Coordinator of the Theory Department of the Institute of Communication of the Faculty of Information and Communication also at the University of the Republic (UDELAR, 2022 to date) as Full Dedication (G4 DT). For twenty years she worked as a member of the Observatory of Cultural Policies (FHUCE – UDELAR).

Radakovich is a researcher on cultural consumption patterns, creative and film industries in Uruguay.

Jorge Saavedra Utman

Associate Professor of the Faculty of Communication and Literature at Diego Portales University (UDP) and researcher at the Centre for Communication, Literature and Social Observation Research (CICLOS) UDP.

He has taught on media, activism and culture at Goldsmiths, University of London, and the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Previously, he worked for the National Council of Culture and Arts and collaborated for over 10 years in the Culture Management programme at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso. He has published articles and books on issues related to local cultures, culture industries, and the mediation and culture of participation and activism. Among his ongoing projects, he is leading two nationwide projects on media and activism, and community radio.

He holds a PhD in Media and Communications, from Goldsmiths, University of London.