Jim McGuigan
Professor of Cultural Analysis and Sociology Programme Director, Department of Scocial Science Loughborough University, Leicester.
Professor of Cultural Analysis in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough. Before entering academia he worked as a research of officer at the Arts Council of GB and as a script editor in BBC TV’s Drama (Plays) Department. His books include Writers and the Arts Council (1981), Cultural Populism (1992), Culture and the Public Sphere (1996), Cultural Methodologies (1997), Modernity and Postmodern Culture (1999 & 2006), Rethinking Cultural Policy (2004), Cool Capitalism (2009) and Cultural Analysis (2010). He has published in several journals, including Cultural Studies, European Journal of Cultural Studies, International Journal of Cultural Policy, New Left Review, Social Semiotics, Sociological Review and Sociology; and contributed chapters to various book collections in the arts, humanities and social sciences. His work has been translated into Chinese, Farsi, German, Korean, Japanese and Spanish,
He researched the New Millennium Experience for the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Jim serves on several editorial boards and has served as a reviewer and expert research evaluator for the AHRC, the ESRC and the European Commission. He has been a visiting professor at a number of universities abroad, including Bergen, Canberra, Jyvaskyla and Rostock.
