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.