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Creative Informatics: how data driven innovation has transformed the creative workplace (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Paneels, I., & Patrick-Thomson, H. (2024, September). Creative Informatics: how data driven innovation has transformed the creative workplace. Paper presented at Transdisciplinary Workplace Research Conference

The creative economy is a workforce with a high proportion of freelancers and SMEs. This paper reflects on new ways of working, accelerated by the digital pivot of the creative workplace caused by the global pandemic. Whilst the impact of digital tec... Read More about Creative Informatics: how data driven innovation has transformed the creative workplace.

New Horizons in Peer Advice Systems: Developing the Freelance Advisor (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Patrick-Thomson, H., Lawson, A., & Lapok, P. (2024, April). New Horizons in Peer Advice Systems: Developing the Freelance Advisor. Paper presented at Digital Business and Society Consortium, Royal Holloway, University of London

Work in the creative and cultural industries is often seen as “good” because it offers people a chance to earn money while engaged in their passion (McRobbie, 2018), to have autonomy over when, where and how they work (Smith and McKinlay, 2009), and... Read More about New Horizons in Peer Advice Systems: Developing the Freelance Advisor.

The effects of visibility on solidarity: Post-pandemic online organising for the good (work) life amongst creative freelancers (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Patrick-Thomson, H. (2023, September). The effects of visibility on solidarity: Post-pandemic online organising for the good (work) life amongst creative freelancers. Paper presented at British Academy of Management 2023 Conference, Brighton

Many creatives freelance in pursuit of the good life: but their independence comes at the price of job security. This paper explores how creative freelancers organised via Facebook to support one another in the wake of the pandemic. It asks: How do... Read More about The effects of visibility on solidarity: Post-pandemic online organising for the good (work) life amongst creative freelancers.

Connecting, Collaborating, Creating: The Experiences of Creative Freelancers in Edinburgh in 2022 (2022)
Report
Connell, L., Orme, A., Osborne, N., Panneels, I., Patrick-Thomson, H., Terras, M., & Wojtkiewicz, O. (2022). Connecting, Collaborating, Creating: The Experiences of Creative Freelancers in Edinburgh in 2022. Edinburgh: Creative Edinburgh

This report provides a snapshot of the state and needs of creative freelancers in the Edinburgh region in 2022. The last few years have been both interesting and challenging for creative freelancers in Scotland. Given the constraints caused by the... Read More about Connecting, Collaborating, Creating: The Experiences of Creative Freelancers in Edinburgh in 2022.

Online Organising of Creative Communities (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Patrick, H. (2021, July). Online Organising of Creative Communities. Paper presented at British Universities Industrial Relations Association Conference 2021, Online

Researching Craft Beer: Understanding Production, Community and Culture in an Evolving Sector (2021)
Book
Clarke, D., Ellis, V., Patrick-Thomson, H., & Weir, D. (Eds.). (2021). Researching Craft Beer: Understanding Production, Community and Culture in an Evolving Sector. Bingley: Emerald

Decades of stagnating demand for beer and the emergence of global brewing conglomerates had seen many of Britain’s longstanding breweries disappear and a decline in the diversity of beer styles on offer. However, following similar developments in the... Read More about Researching Craft Beer: Understanding Production, Community and Culture in an Evolving Sector.

Creatives in Crisis (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Patrick, H. (2021, April). Creatives in Crisis. Paper presented at International Labour Process Conference 2021, London [Online]

Don’t Work for Free: Online Discursive Resistance to Precarity in Commercial Photography (2020)
Journal Article
Patrick-Thomson, H., & Kranert, M. (2021). Don’t Work for Free: Online Discursive Resistance to Precarity in Commercial Photography. Work, Employment and Society, 35(6), 1034-1052. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017020952630

While increasing academic attention has been paid to the precariousness of contemporary work, less research has examined how workers organise in response. This article examines how a group of precarious workers—commercial photographers—use an online... Read More about Don’t Work for Free: Online Discursive Resistance to Precarity in Commercial Photography.

Ambidexterity within the Professional Ballet World: Scottish Ballet's Dancers' Education Group (2020)
Book Chapter
Whiteside, B., Patrick, H., & Cassidy, C. (2020). Ambidexterity within the Professional Ballet World: Scottish Ballet's Dancers' Education Group. In A. R. David, M. Huxley, & S. Whatley (Eds.), Dance Fields: Staking a Claim for Dance Studies in the Twenty-First Centure (132-153). Hampshire: Dance Books

Within a dance sphere, it would, perhaps, be logical to consider the concept of ‘ambidexterity’ as linked to the physical use of the dancing body across a multitude of genres, to interrogate the link between physicality and mentality, or to consider... Read More about Ambidexterity within the Professional Ballet World: Scottish Ballet's Dancers' Education Group.

Why More Companies are Going Dog Friendly (2019)
Other
Patrick, H. (2019). Why More Companies are Going Dog Friendly. https://theconversation.com/why-more-companies-are-going-dog-friendly-123405

Bringing pet dogs into the workplace is becoming increasingly common. Large companies like Google, Ticketmaster and challenger bank Monzo are just a few that have joined companies in the pet sector (like Pets at Home) that allow employees to bring th... Read More about Why More Companies are Going Dog Friendly.

Storytelling in the Craft Beer Bar (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Patrick, H. (2019, July). Storytelling in the Craft Beer Bar. Paper presented at Craft Beer Research and Enterprise Workshop Symposium (CBREW), Edinburgh

Don’t Work For Free (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Patrick, H., & Kranert, M. (2019, July). Don’t Work For Free. Paper presented at Work Employment and Society 2019

Craft beer, Cicerones and changing identities in beer serving (2018)
Book Chapter
Clarke, D., Weir, D., & Patrick, H. (2018). Craft beer, Cicerones and changing identities in beer serving. In Work, Working and Work Relationships in a Changing World. New York / Oxford: Routledge

There has been a revival of traditional beer in the UK and the craft beer market is becoming increasingly competitive, resulting in producers bringing a little more theatre to the category. Beer drinking is primarily about taste and, since consumers... Read More about Craft beer, Cicerones and changing identities in beer serving.

Nested tensions and smoothing tactics: An ethnographic examination of ambidexterity in a theatre (2018)
Journal Article
Patrick, H. (2018). Nested tensions and smoothing tactics: An ethnographic examination of ambidexterity in a theatre. Management Learning, 49(5), 559-577. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507618800940

All organizations face contradictory demands, such as exploiting existing revenue sources whilst exploring new opportunities. The tensions of balancing these demands are largely met by employees, yet nearly all studies focus on the managerial perspec... Read More about Nested tensions and smoothing tactics: An ethnographic examination of ambidexterity in a theatre.