
Dr Claudia Firth
PhD, MA, MA, BA (Hons)
Current positions
Senior Research Associate
University of Bristol Business School
Contact
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Research interests
I am currently a postdoctoral researcher on the Fair Creative Economies project. Together with researchers from UWE we are exploring how to encourage a low carbon, high inclusion and high democracy creative sector in the Bristola and Bath region. My research interests include commons, cooperatives, social and solidarity economy, diverse and community economies and radical pedagogy. I have published work on reading groups, listening and political strategy and organisation.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
How can artists thrive in late-stage capitalism?
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Initial workshop to explore potential for larger fellowship that explores the potential for a Community Economy for the creative industries of Bristol. Collaborated with artist Liz Clarke using her approach…Managing organisational unit
Brigstow InstituteDates
04/05/2026 to 29/05/2026
Publications
Recent publications
05/08/2024Plotting a vision through platform cooperation: Own this: how platform cooperatives help workers build a democratic Internet, by R. Trebor Scholz
Both or Neither? Rethinking the vertical and the horizontal in political organisation
Ephemera
Neoliberalism’s Persistence and the Struggle for What Comes After
Theory, Culture and Society
Mutual Aid and Technology in the Time of Covid
Anarchist Studies
Jeremy Gilbert and Alex Williams, ‘Hegemony Now’: Theory, Culture and Society
Theory, Culture and Society