TY - JOUR
T1 - Crafting professionals: skills and resources for graduates entering the craft economy
AU - England, Lauren
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article: This research was supported by a Sir Professor Richard Trainor PhD Scholarship at King’s College London. The author would also like to acknowledge the support of Crafts Council UK as a collaborative doctoral partner.
Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article: This research was supported by a Sir Professor Richard Trainor PhD Scholarship at King’s College London. The author would also like to acknowledge the support of Crafts Council UK as a collaborative doctoral partner.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2022.
PY - 2022/12
Y1 - 2022/12
N2 - There is growing interest in creative graduate skillsets but so far there has been limited investigation of the specific skills and resource requirements of early-career crafts graduates. Drawing on qualitative interviews and quantitative rankings of skills and resources conducted with 25 graduates from four higher education providers in England, this article examines the role and relative priority of different skills and resources in establishing a professional practice. It is identified that the skills and resources key to professional practice are highly interrelated, and proposed that the diverse requirements for professional practice should be understood as an amalgam rather than isolated components, with the acquisition of skills and resources seen as accumulative. The potential for a lack of key resources to exacerbate inequalities in who can enter and work in the craft economy is discussed and recommendations made for initiatives that could help to address an unequal distribution of resources.
AB - There is growing interest in creative graduate skillsets but so far there has been limited investigation of the specific skills and resource requirements of early-career crafts graduates. Drawing on qualitative interviews and quantitative rankings of skills and resources conducted with 25 graduates from four higher education providers in England, this article examines the role and relative priority of different skills and resources in establishing a professional practice. It is identified that the skills and resources key to professional practice are highly interrelated, and proposed that the diverse requirements for professional practice should be understood as an amalgam rather than isolated components, with the acquisition of skills and resources seen as accumulative. The potential for a lack of key resources to exacerbate inequalities in who can enter and work in the craft economy is discussed and recommendations made for initiatives that could help to address an unequal distribution of resources.
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U2 - 10.1177/13675494221136610
DO - 10.1177/13675494221136610
M3 - Article
SN - 1367-5494
VL - 25
SP - 1633
EP - 1651
JO - European Journal of Cultural Studies
JF - European Journal of Cultural Studies
IS - 6
ER -