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Creative Industries

Dr. Miranda Campbell

Professor
EducationPh.D, Education, McGill University (Montreal, CA); MA, English Literature, Concordia University (Montreal, CA); BA, English Literature, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, CA); Certificate, Diversity and Inclusion, Cornell University (online); Certificate, Brief Coaching, OISE

My research and creative projects investigate how creativity and cultural production enable resilience and strength in communities. With these projects, I aim to raise the visibility of emergent and community-based responses to social, economic, political, and cultural problems. I am invested in community pedagogies, community arts, and enhancing the wellbeing of individuals and communities.  

The challenges of entering and making a living in the creative industries are increasingly well documented, but further research is needed to investigate both the sources and potential solutions to the problems of diversity, equity, and inclusion in this sector. My research agenda has investigated this need, seeking to better understand both organizational structures and cultural policy, while also mapping emerging responses, lived realities, and experiences of creative work.

Methodologically, I primarily work qualitatively, informed by phenomenological, oral history, and cultural mapping frameworks. With this cultural mapping lens, I seek to better register both tangible and intangible cultural values, and have also employed quantitative means to measure and assess emerging cultural forms and labour market experiences. Additionally, as I collaborate with communities to better understand their needs and amplify the work that they do supporting arts and culture, I employ participatory action research, co-creation, and arts-based methodologies.

With my research, I create platforms to connect constituents and stakeholders across creative sectors to better share knowledge about the creative industries, such that good work in this sector can be more sustainable and more equitably spread. I see academic research as having a key role to play here in contributing the investigative means, connective capacities, and knowledge mobilization strategies to bring together academic, policy, and practitioner sectors. I seek to communicate with both academic, policy, practitioner, and general audiences, as reflected in my research dissemination strategies.  I aim to create research cultures that engage undergraduate and graduate students as well as community, industry, and policy partners.

  • Youth culture
  • Cultural policy
  • Creative Labour
  • Critical pedagogy
  • Gender studies
  • Small-scale Cultural Production
  • Creative industries

Books

  • 2013. . McGill Queens鈥檚 University Press. 283 pages.
  • 2022. . Routledge, 228 pages.
  • 2022. . Rowman & Littlefield. 196 pages.
  • 2022. . Co-edited with Cheryl Thompson. Canadian Scholars鈥� Press. 300 pages.
  • 2026. . Co-authored with Benjamin Woo. 167 pages.

Journal Publications

  • 2026. 鈥淣ot only Hardships: Community Music and Raising the Visibility of Black and Racialized Musicians Through Participatory Arts-Based Reserach.鈥� Miranda Campbell, Nala Haileselassie, and Maia Taruc-Pilling. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research.
  • 2026. 鈥淐ommunity Music as a Relational Conversation.鈥� Miranda Campbell, Salman Rana, Nala Haileselassie, Maia Taruc-Pilling, and Mark Campbell. Rubix Journal.
  • 2024. 鈥淕ender Pay Gap in the Early- Stage Careers of Canadian Creative Workers.鈥� Marilena Vecco, Miranda Campbell, and Roberto Zanola. International Journal of Arts Management. 26 (3). 4-16.
  • 2022. 鈥淪trategies for Social Engagement: Arts-Service Organizations and Organizational Intermediation.鈥� Miranda Campbell, Calla Evans, and Lucy Wowk. Poetics. 92(B), 1-12.
  • 2022. 鈥淭ending the Garden: Possibilities and Limitations of Developing Inclusive Environments in the Arts and Culture Sector.鈥� Miranda Campbell and Erika Chung. Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change. 7(1), 1-14.
  • 2021. 鈥淢aking Community Knowledge Visible: Mapping Canadian Arts-Service Organizations as Cultural Research Conduits.鈥� Miranda Campbell, Calla Evans, and Lucy Wowk. Canadian Journal of Communication. 47(1), 79鈥�99.
  • 2021. 鈥淩eimagining the Creative Industries in the Community Youth Arts Sector. Cultural Trends. 30(3), 263-282.
  • 2019. 鈥淔rom Youth Engagement to Creative Industries Incubators: Models of Working with Youth in Community Arts Settings.鈥� Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies. 41(3), 164-192.
  • 2019. 鈥淭heorizing Comic Cons.鈥� Journal of Fandom Studies. Benjamin Woo, Bart Beaty, Miranda Campbell, Brian Johnson. 8(1): 9-31.
  • 2018. 鈥溾�橲hit is Hard, Yo鈥�: Young People Making a Living in the Creative Industries.鈥� International Journal of Cultural Policy. 26(4): 524-543
  • 2016. 鈥淒ownward Mobility and the Individualization of Youth Struggle: Girls as Public Pedagogy.鈥� Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures. 8(1): 180-201.
  • 2007. 鈥淭he Mocking Mockumentary and the Ethics of Irony.鈥� Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education. 11(1), 53-62.
     

Book Chapters

  • 2018. 鈥淭avi Gevinson: Empowerment for Teenage Girls.鈥� In S. Steinberg, ed. 30 Activists Under 30: Global Youth, Social Justice, and Good Work. Brill Press. pp. 32-39.
  • 2016. 鈥淕irls Rock!: Best Practices in Collaborative Creative Processes at Rock Camp for Girls Montreal.鈥� In A. Gandini and J. Graham, eds. Collaborative Production in the Creative Industries. University of Westminster Press. pp. 177-196.
  • 2015. 鈥淐reative Entrepreneurship in the Cultural Industries: Rhetoric and Realities of Youth Creative Work.鈥� In S. Malliet, A. Dhoest, J. Haers, and B. Segaert, eds. The Borders of Subculture: Resistance and the Mainstream. Routledge. pp. 37-54.
  • 2012. 鈥淵outh Cultural Production and Creative Economies.鈥� In M. Hoechsmann and S. Poyntz, eds. Media Literacy: A Critical Introduction. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. pp. 102-104.

Guest & Keynote Speaking

  • 2026. Keynote Lecture. 鈥淭he Practice of Learning.鈥� KISMIF conference. Porto, Portugal.
  • 2024. Guest Lecture. "Raising the Visibility of Community Arts Practices: Inclusive Models in Small-Scale and Emerging Cultural Production." Faculty of Education, University of Lisbon. Guest Lecture.
  • 2023. Keynote address. 鈥淵outh and Emergence, Research and Care Ethics.鈥� Intersections / Cross-sections Communication and Culture graduate student conference. 麻豆视频.
  • 2022. Keynote address. 鈥淐are Ethics for the Creative Industries.鈥� Engage Journal Issue 46 launch.
  • 2019. Keynote address. A Collaborative Turn: Youth-led Organizing and Communities of Care.鈥� Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies graduate conference. York University, 麻豆视频, Canada.
  • 2018. Organizer and moderator of panel discussion. 鈥淔ostering Inclusive Spaces and Scenes: Lessons from the Community Arts Sector.鈥� Pop Montreal Symposium, Montreal, Quebec.
  • 2018. Presentation of research project and preliminary results. 鈥淐ommunity Youth Arts Programs as Creative Industries Incubators.鈥� City of 麻豆视频, Economic Development and Culture Division.
  • 2017. Moderator of panel discussion. 鈥淭he Future of Hip Hop Festivals in Canada.鈥� One Hundred and Fifty Futures of Hip Hop in Canada conference, 麻豆视频, Canada.
  • 2016. Keynote Address. 鈥淐reativity, Commerce, and Community in an Era of Economic Decline: Emerging Directions in Youth Entrepreneurship.鈥� Teaching and Learning Cultural Entrepreneurship conference. Telemark University College, B酶, Norway.
  • 2014. Moderator and Organizer. 鈥淐an Anyone Be a Rock Star?: The Gendered Landscape of Music Scenes and Rock Camp for Girls Montreal.鈥� Panel Discussion and Workshop. Pop Montreal Symposium, Montreal, Quebec.
  • 2014. Panel Discussion. 鈥淧roducteurs culturels et artistes ind茅pendants du Mile End, quelle cohabitation?鈥� M茅moire Mile End, Montreal, Quebec.
  • 2013.  Keynote Address. 鈥淐reative Entrepreneurship and the Cultural Industry.鈥� Youth Subcultures: Download the Drivers conference at University Centre Saint Ignatius, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
     
General Audience Publications
  • 2025. What is Community Music? Research Report. Miranda Campbell, Nala Haileselassie, Maia Taruc-Pilling, and Salman Rana
  • 2020.  Research Report. Miranda Campbell, Calla Evans, and Lucy Wowk, in collaboration with Mass Culture.
  • 2018. . Research Report.
  • 2018. 鈥�.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Maisonneuve Magazine. Issue 69. pp. 16-21.
  • 2016. 鈥�.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Maisonneuve Magazine. Issue 60. pp. 28-35.
  • 2016.   . Podcast (6 episodes).
  • 2015. 鈥�.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Jacobin.
  • 2015. 鈥�.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Noisey.
  • 2015.&苍产蝉辫;鈥�.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Noisey.
     

Research Projects


Current Research Projects
  • 2026-2027: 鈥淎I and the Arts: Affective Responses to Technology Beyond Anxiety?鈥� Knowledge Synthesis Grant. Co-Applicant with Principal Applicant Sandra Jeppesen and Co-Applicant Neven Lochhead
     
Past Research Projects
  • 2023-2026: Principal Applicant with Project Co-Director Cheryl Thompson. 鈥淢apping the Music Industries.鈥� SSHRC Partnership Development Grant.
  • 2023-2024: 鈥淧eer-to-Peer Learning for Inclusive Environments for the Creative Industries.鈥� Justice, Equity, and Community Initiatives grant, The Creative School, 麻豆视频.
  • 2019-2020: Mapping Canadian Arts-Service Organizations as Cultural Research Conduits (SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant; Principal Investigator, in collaboration with Mass Culture).
  • 2017-2019: Community Youth Arts Programs as Creative Industries Incubators (SSHRC Insight Development; Principal Investigator)
  • 2017-2020: Comic-Cons: An Urban Media Industry (SSHRC Partnership Development Grant; Co-Investigator with Principal Investigator Ben Woo and Co-Investigators Brian Johnson and Bart Beaty)

  • 2020. Ryerson University YSGS Award for Outstanding Contribution to Graduate Education
  • 2014. Out of the Basement shortlisted for the Donner Prize for the Best Public Policy Book by a Canadian
  • 2014. Out of the Basement shortlisted for the Gertrude Robinson Book Prize for the Best Communication Studies Book in Canada