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Crafting professionals: exploring the spatial and social mediation of professional networks in craft higher education

In: A Modern Guide to Creative Economies

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  • Lauren England

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This chapter addresses how spatial and social dynamics can influence the craft higher education (HE) experience and professional development of crafts students. It builds on literature on networks in creative career development and the role of place in educational contexts, and draws from interviews with crafts educators and students from four HE providers in England conducted between 2016-2018. Two key and connected mediators of networks within craft HE are presented - place and educators. Both opportunities and challenges for professional network development are discussed and it is argued that educators' role as network brokers and mediators, combined with geographical exposure, influences students' identification of potential career pathways. The chapter concludes with reflection on the role of networks in early craft career development and the implications of their spatial and social mediation, including the potential for regional socio-economic inequalities and barriers to accessing craft careers to be reinforced.

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  • Lauren England, 2022. "Crafting professionals: exploring the spatial and social mediation of professional networks in craft higher education," Chapters, in: Roberta Comunian & Alessandra Faggian & Jarna Heinonen & Nick Wilson (ed.), A Modern Guide to Creative Economies, chapter 10, pages 164-180, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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