Dr Claudia Firth
Senior Research Associate
Claudia Firth is a Senior Research Associate in the Business School at the University of Bristol. Her work is situated in the interstices between Cultural Studies, Political Economy, and Organisation Studies. Her research has included work on commons, co-ops, grassroots self-organisation and the contribution and sharing economy, reading groups as critical pedagogy and organisation, and listening as a mode of organizing in arts-activism. Forthcoming publications include articles on political organisation, mutual aid and technology, and neoliberalism in the current conjuncture. Claudia is also an experienced facilitator, working across the cultural and activist sectors.
Alice Quigley
PhD Researcher
Alice is a researcher, producer and editor interested in alternative economies and social transformation, independent film and the arts. Her PhD research explores contemporary theories of postcapitalism and the granularity of social change from practitioners' points of view. Previously, Alice was Research Associate on the AHRC-funded UK Feature Docs project, a study of the UK documentary film industry and completed her MA in Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths. Her MA thesis explored how arts organisations use tactics of the Commons to resist the neo-liberalisation of the sector. Originally from Belfast, Alice worked as an arts programmer and producer for over fifteen years, specialising in music and arts events, independent film and creative technology. In her spare time she is part of a pickling and preserving collective, plays badminton, watches films and gets outside as much as possible.
Dr Simon Moreton
Co-Director
Simon is Associate Professor of Creative Economies based in the Digital Cultures Research Centre at UWE Bristol. He leads Fair Creative Economies, and was first a co-director and then director of Bristol and Bath Creative R&D (2018-2024) which focussed on supporting sustainable, inclusive, and responsible R&D in the creative sector. His interests as a researcher and artist range from the everyday politics of creativity, how we organise creative work, through to exploring how the landscapes and histories of the places we live in shape who we are and how we understand the world.
Prof Martin Parker
Co-Director
Martin is a Professor at the University of Business Bristol School. He has a long-standing interest in teaching and researching alternative organizations and economy, and has been working with a variety of partners in the Bristol region since 2018. As well as this MyWorld project, he is also engaged in a large ‘community technology’ project through the CenSoF research centre at the university. His last few books were ‘Shut Down the Business School’ (2018), ‘Anarchism, Organization and Management (2020) and ‘Life After COVID19’ (2020).
Will Hunter
PhD Researcher
Will’s research asks how we 'do' community based research differently and interrogates the impacts of neo-liberalism on the 'the University’. Focussing on administrative and organisational processes as boundary objects, he is attempting to unpick how they drive an inequity in the power present in participatory research projects. Rooted in Feminist, queer and post-capitalist theory he interrogates the relationship the University holds with society and how we imagine future possibilities.