Accepting applications from PhD students.
Email: B.J.Hracs@soton.ac.uk
Tel: +44 23 8059 9097
GGES 3033: The Professional Geographer
GGES 3021: The Creative Economy
GGES 3004: Individual Project
GGES 2017: Research Project Preparation
GGES 1015: First Year Fieldcourse
GGES 1013: Principles of Geography
GGES 1012: Exploring Urban and Natural Environments
GGES 1008: A Global World
Brian is an Associate Professor within the School of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Southampton. He is originally from Canada and received his PhD in Geography from the University of Toronto. He has held research fellowships at the Martin Prosperity Institute in Toronto and the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University in Sweden. Brian is interested in how digital technologies and global competition are reshaping the marketplace for cultural products and the working lives of entrepreneurs and intermediaries in the creative economy. He has published articles, book chapters and reports, about the music and fashion industries, aesthetic labour, curation, value creation, digital platforms, tourism and the mobilities of ‘talent’. He has also co-edited four books about the creative economy. In 2012 Brian co-created the annual European Colloquium on Culture, Creativity and Economy (CCE). He is currently researching the processes and spatial dynamics of curation, the trans-local nature of cultural scenes and creative economies in Africa.
