Rate My Professor Mark Banks

His research specializations encompass the cultural and creative industries, focusing on work and employment, culture-economy relations, participation, and social justice, with particular interests in the visual arts, music, and media industries, as well as cultural theory, cultural value, cities, and popular culture. Current research addresses how cultural industries can achieve greater social and creative justice and connect to ecological politics through post-growth, well-being, and transitional economies. He has authored or co-authored 44 publications, including the books Creative Justice: Cultural Industries, Work and Inequality (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017) and The Politics of Cultural Work (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), the co-edited volume Cultural Industries and the Environmental Crisis: New Approaches for Policy (Springer, 2020), and articles such as "Cultural work and contributive justice" (Journal of Cultural Economy, 2023), "The unanticipated pleasures of the future: degrowth, postgrowth and popular cultural economies" (New Formations, 2022), and "'A plague upon your howling': art and culture in the viral emergency" (Cultural Trends, 2021). Major grants include Principal Investigator roles on "It Takes a Region to Raise an Artist" (AHRC Creative Economy Engagement Fellowship, 2018) and "The Values of Cultural Work" (AHRC Cultural Value Project, 2013), and Co-Investigator on "Gypsies Forging Sustainable Futures" (AHRC, 2024). He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), and has been Visiting Professor in Commercial Music at the University of Westminster (2015-2018) and Visiting Fellow at the University of Norrköping (2006).