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Thanks for bringing Nick into the aacorn network, Piers. Sounds like a great colleague! Ariane > Dear aacorners, > > I very much hope you will welcome Dr. Nick Wilson into the network. He is > a warm-hearted and creative scholar and musician who I have known for many > years and I think is already known to some of you. I was very surprised > to learn that he was not already on the list and I very much hope you will > make him welcome. I know his research interests are close to those of > many of you. I commend him to you. > > Dr Nick Wilson has been actively involved in teaching, practice and > research relating to arts and management for well over ten years. A > professional singer (studying at the Royal College of Music and the HdK in > Berlin), Nick went on to work in arts management (including Askonas Holt > Ltd and the International Artist Managers' Association) before joining the > Small Business Research Centre (SBRC) at Kingston University in 1999. > While at Kingston, Nick lead the teaching provision for entrepreneurship > and small business, before setting up and managing an innovative Programme > of MAs in Cultural Economy (MACE) in 2007. He now works at the Department > of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King's College London, where > he teaches on the MA Cultural & Creative Industries. His teaching > explicitly engages with the boundary space of managing art and creativity > - 'Art of Management: Management of Art' and 'Contextualising Creativity'. > He attended the Art of Management symposium in Istanbul in 2010 and the > conference in Banff in 2008. Nick is currently supervising 2 PhD > students, one of whom is working on a thesis that is exploring reflexive > artistic practice in management education. In the autumn of 2011 Nick > launched a new research network for arts based learning & education > (nABLE) at King's. It is hoped that this will develop links and > opportunities for carrying out further research that actively engages with > and through the arts. > > Piers Ibbotson > > +0044 (0)1865 510064 > 07887605133 > DirectingCreativity.co.uk -- Prof. Dr. Ariane Berthoin Antal "Cultural Sources of Newness", WZB Reichpietschufer 50 10785 Berlin Germany http://www.wzb.eu/de/personen/ariane-berthoin-antal Blog: www.culturalsourcesofnewness.net Research program: http://www.wzb.eu/en/research/society-and-economic-dynamics/cultural-sources-of-newness/projects/artistic-interventions-in-organiza