About Dave O'Brien

Dave O'Brien is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Manchester

Dave O'Brien is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Manchester.

NBN Episodes hosted by Dave:

May 11, 2024

Cash, Clothes, and Construction

Kate Maclean

Hosted by Dave O'Brien

How do alternative economic ideas and practices develop? In Cash, Clothes, and Construction: Rethinking Value in Bolivia’s Pluri-economy (U Minnesota …

May 10, 2024

Algorithms of Resistance

Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Trere

Hosted by Dave O'Brien

What are the tactics needed for a world of platforms and algorithms? In Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power (MIT Press…

April 27, 2024

Geopolitics of Digital Heritage

Natalia Grincheva and Elizabeth Stainforth

Hosted by Dave O'Brien

How are digital platforms transforming heritage? In Geopolitics of Digital Heritage (Cambridge UP, 2023), Dr Natalia Grincheva, Program Leader of the …

April 27, 2024

The Liberal Arts Paradox in Higher Education

Kathryn Telling

Hosted by Dave O'Brien

What is the future of higher education? In The Liberal Arts Paradox in Higher Education: Negotiating Inclusion and Prestige (Policy Press, 2023), Dr K…

March 16, 2024

Screen Deep

Ellen E. Jones

Hosted by Dave O'Brien

Why does race matter in film and TV? In Screen Deep: How Film and TV Can Solve Racism and Save the World (Faber and Faber, 2024), Ellen E. Jones, a jo…

March 13, 2024

No Machos Or Pop Stars

Gavin Butt

Hosted by Dave O'Brien

How do art schools influence music? In No Machos or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk (Duke UP, 2022), Gavin Butt, a Professor of Fin…

March 11, 2024

Cultural Work and Creative Subjectivity

Xin Gu

Hosted by Dave O'Brien

How can artists survive today? In Cultural Work and Creative Subjectivity: Recentralising the Artist Critique and Social Networks in the Cultural Indu…

March 6, 2024

The Poet’s Song

Priyanka Basu

Hosted by Dave O'Brien

How can culture be authentic in the modern world? In The Poet's Song: Folk and its Cultural Politics in South Asia (Rouitledge, 2023), Dr Priyanka Bas…

March 4, 2024

The Culture Trap

Derron Wallace

Hosted by Dave O'Brien

How does race matter in schools? In The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth (Oxford UP, 2023), Derron Wallace, th…

March 3, 2024

Big Brands Are Watching You

Francesca Sobande

Hosted by Dave O'Brien

Can brands really support positive social change? In Big Brands are Watching You: Marketing Social Justice and Digital Culture (U California Press, 20…

February 21, 2024

Innovation for the Masses

Neil Lee

Hosted by Dave O'Brien

How can we build a more equal economy? In Innovation for the Masses: How to Share the Benefits of the High-Tech Economy (U California Press, 2024), Ne…

February 4, 2024

The Will to Predict

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė

Hosted by Dave O'Brien

Can we predict the future? In The Will to Predict: Orchestrating the Future Through Science (Cornell UP, 2023), Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, an Associate Profe…

January 24, 2024

The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition

Beth Driscoll and Claire Squires

Hosted by Dave O'Brien

How do fiction and research intersect? In The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition (Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2023), Beth Driscoll, an Associate P…

January 19, 2024

Where We Come From

Aniefiok Ekpoudom

Hosted by Dave O'Brien

Why is music important to place, and place important to music? In Where We Come From: Rap, Home and Hope in Modern Britain (Faber and Faber, 2024), An…

January 6, 2024

Medieval Sex Lives

Elizabeth Eva Leach

Hosted by Dave O'Brien

How was music important to medieval society? In Medieval Sex Lives: The Sounds of Courtly Intimacy on the Francophone Borders (Cornell UP, 2023), Prof…

December 26, 2023

Foucault

Stuart Elden

Hosted by Dave O'Brien

How did Foucault become a public, political intellectual? In Foucault: The Birth of Power (Polity Press, 2017), Stuart Elden, Professor of Political T…

November 25, 2023

The Moral Foundations of Public Funding for the Arts

Michael Rushton

Hosted by Dave O'Brien

Should governments fund the arts? In The Moral Foundations of Public Funding for the Arts (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), Michael Rushton, Co-Director of …

November 23, 2023

The Accidental Equalizer

Jessi Streib

Hosted by Dave O'Brien

Are jobs fair? In The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay after College (U Chicago Press, 2023), Jessi Streib, an associate Professor of So…

October 30, 2023

The Value of Art Education

Henrik Fürst and Erik Nylander

Hosted by Dave O'Brien

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Is art education worthwhile? In The Value of Art Education: Cultural Engagements at the Swedish Folk High Schools (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023), Henrik F…

October 29, 2023

Coloniality and Meritocracy in Unequal EU Migrations

Simone Varriale

Hosted by Dave O'Brien

How do migrants make sense of migration? In Coloniality and Meritocracy in unequal EU migrations: Intersecting Inequalities in Post-2008 Italian Migra…

October 28, 2023

Schools and Cultural Citizenship

Pat Thomson and Christine Hall

Hosted by Dave O'Brien

Why study the arts in school? In Schools and Cultural Citizenship: Arts Education for Life (Routledge, 2023), Pat Thomson, Professor of Education at t…

October 1, 2023

A Taste of Honey

Melanie Williams

Hosted by Dave O'Brien

What makes a film a classic? In A Taste of Honey (Bloomsbury, 2023), published as part of the BFI Film Classics series, Melanie Williams, a Professor …

September 15, 2023

Imperial Island

Charlotte Lydia Riley

Hosted by Dave O'Brien

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Can Britain escape from being a nation trapped in its past? In Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin, 2023), Charlotte Lydia…

September 13, 2023

Seeing Others

Michèle Lamont

Hosted by Dave O'Brien

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How can we challenge and change inequalities? In Seeing Others: How Recognition Works— and How It Can Heal a Divided World (Atria, 2023), Michele Lamo…