Dr Jennie Jordan

Jennie specialises in understanding the role of creative business and cultural events in local place-making and identity. She understands the power of community, brand and memorable personal experience in building a successful creative businesses.

Jennie has extensive experience as an entrepreneur and manager within the UK cultural and creative industries, including setting up and running a magazine publishing company and producing festivals. She was a member of the senior team at Leicester Phoenix Arts Centre. She also worked as a consultant with clients including Arts Council England and the UK Government's Department for Culture Media and Sport, the East Midlands Cultural Consortium, Youth Music and Nottingham Playhouse, amongst others.

Jennie's PhD explored festivalisation within urban political economies and cultural ecosystems. She found festival organisations operated on the edges of formal political structures as a place where different interest groups could meet. When she’s not behind her desk or with a class, she might be found researching at an event.

The Centre for Urban Research on Austerity (CURA)

Media and Communication Research Centre

View a full listing of Jennie Jordan's publications and outputs.

Jordan, J., 2021. Cultural closure and social mobility: a critical examination of festival governance structures as exclusive social spaces. Annals of Leisure Research, pp.1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2021.1927768

Jordan, J. and Chan, H.M., 2021. More than a “Chinese Century”: the case of International Film Festival & Awards Macao.Event Managementhttps://doi.org/10.3727/152599521X16288665119567

 

Jordan, J and Jindal, R, 2020, Problematising Philanthropy in the UK Cultural Sector in Granger, R (ed) Value Construction in the Creative Economy, Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 67-84

Jordan, J. 2016 Festivalisation of cultural production: experimentation, spectacularisation and immersion, Journal of Cultural Policy and Management, 6(1), pp.44-55

Newbold, C. & Jordan, J.(eds)  2016 Focus on World Festivals: contemporary case studies and perspectives, Oxford: Goodfellow

Jordan, J. (2016) The Festivalisation of Contemporary Life. In: Newbold, C. and Jordan, J. (eds) Focus on World Festivals: contemporary case studies and perspectives. Oxford: Goodfellow Publishers, pp. 6-18

Jordan, J. (2015) Festival Leadership in Turbulent Times. In: Newbold, C., Maughan, C. Jordan, J.. and Bianchini, F. eds. Focus on Festivals: contemporary European case studies and perspectives, Oxford: Goodfellow, pp. 107-117

Newbold, C., Maughan, C., Jordan, J. and Bianchini, F. (eds) (2015) Focus on Festivals: Contemporary European Case Studies and Perspectives, Goodfellow Publishers: Oxford

Cultural policy and management, cultural sociology, cultural political economy, festival studies, critical event studies

Cultural policy, work in the creative industries, strategic business management in the creative industries performing arts

PhD, MBA, PGCE, BA (Hons) English Language and Literature

• AMAN5012 Cultural Policy
• LCBS5049 Managing Creative Industries Companies
• LCBS5025 Business of the Performing Arts
• MADE5005 Business Planning for the Creative Entrepreneur
• MADI5405 Design Project Management

• Leisure Studies Association
• Royal Society of Arts

• March 2021, International Conference on Cultural Policy Research, presentation on festival production as informal structures within cultural ecosystem
• September 2019, CAMEo, University of Leicester, presentation on festivals as informal civic institutions
• September 2017, CAMEo Mediating Cultural Work conference, University of Leicester. Presentation on transferring cultural policy from one country to another.
• November 2015 Panel member, British Arts Festivals Association annual conference speaking on festival leadership in turbulent times
• October 2015 ENCACT Conference in Cultural Management and Policy presentation on festivalisation of cultural production
• September 2014 International Conference in Cultural Policy Research presentation on festival typology
• November 2011 European Festival Research Programme conference presentation on Place Marketing; the impact of Buxton Festival.
• November 2009; European Festival Research Programme conference presentation on Leadership at Sidmouth Folk Festival

• Jordan, J., 2021. Cultural closure and social mobility: a critical examination of festival governance structures as exclusive social spaces. Annals of Leisure Research, pp.1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2021.1927768
• Jordan, J. and Chan, H.M., 2021. More than a “Chinese Century”: the case of International Film Festival & Awards Macao.Event Managementhttps://doi.org/10.3727/152599521X16288665119567
•  Jordan, J. and Jindal, R., 2020. Problematising Philanthropy in the UK Cultural Sector. In Value Construction in the Creative Economy (pp. 67-84). London: Palgrave Macmillan

Jennie has undertaken policy evaluation consultancy work for the Department of Digital Culture Media and Sport, Arts Council England and Youth Music and the Department of Food and Rural Affairs. She has undertaken business management consultancy for a range of arts and creative industry organistions leading to successful funding bids and business plans.

Clare Bowyer, PhD student

Arunima Ghoshal, PhD student

Jayanta Ray, PhD student

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

External Examiner, Arts University Bournemouth 2010-2014

External Examiner, Sheffield Hallam University 2016-2020

External Examiner, Queen Margaret University of Edinburgh, 2020

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