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Daniel H. Mutibwa

Associate Professor of Creative Industries and Digital Culture, Faculty of Arts

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Biography

Daniel H. Mutibwa is Associate Professor of Creative Industries and Digital Culture in the Department of Cultural, Media and Visual Studies (CMVS). Daniel joined the University of Nottingham in 2016 from the University of Leeds where he received his PhD qualification. Daniel holds a Postgraduate Certificate in the Political Economy of Information and Communication Technologies from Aarlborg University (Denmark), an MPhil from Saarland University (Germany) and a BA (Hons) from Makerere University (Uganda).

Daniel has held a number of leadership roles across departmental, School, Faculty, and sectoral levels. Daniel has served as Admissions Officer for the BA International Media and Communications Studies and as Acting Director of Admissions. In the latter role, Daniel has overseen the department's admissions business across all undergraduate degree programmes. Daniel has served as Internationalisation Officer - a role that has involved looking after the department's global engagement activities and operations. Daniel has also served as Exams and Assessment Officer in CMVS - overseeing and coordinating all matters relating to student assessment and the review of the department's programmes of study at undergraduate level.

At School and Faculty levels, Daniel has served as School Digital Research Lead - a role that has involved coordinating and promoting (new) digital opportunities for research and teaching as relevant to the Arts and Humanities. He has served as a member of the Faculty of Arts Digital Board and as a member of the Steering Committee of the Faculty's Digital Transformations Hub. Furthermore, Daniel has served as School Director of Global Engagement. In this role, he has developed and supported the School's plans to engage with relevant international institutions and global partners to produce world-leading research, to collaborate on knowledge exchange and impact activities, to initiate and maintain teaching partnerships, and to facilitate international mobility of students and staff - in alignment with the University of Nottingham's Global Engagement (GE) Strategic Delivery Plan.

Daniel has also co-facilitated the Creative Digital Practice Skills Project (CDPSP) - a student-staff partnership that supports the development of key creative digital practice skills in the wider student body at School, Faculty and University levels through extracurricular project activities.

At sectoral level, Daniel is Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) - now called Advance HE.

Expertise Summary

Daniel's expertise and research interests are highly interdisciplinary and span the following areas:

  1. Organisational Structures, Cultures of Production, Work, Productivity, Policy, and Social Justice Interventions in the Media, Cultural, Creative, Heritage, and Digital Economy Industries;
  2. Community-led, Creative, and Innovative Approaches to Place-making and Place-based Meaning-making, Preservation, and Regeneration;
  3. Co-Production and Ethnographic Approaches to Interdisciplinary, Applied, Community-based Participatory Practice;
  4. Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D);
  5. Critical Digital Media Studies;
  6. Science and Technology Studies;
  7. Academic-Policy Engagement at the Intersection of Digital Technologies, Culture, Creativity, Innovation, Place-based Communities and Local Government Cultural Partnerships, Social Justice, Productivity, Enterprise, and Green, Inclusive Growth.

PhD Supervision

Daniel welcomes prospective PhD students interested in pursuing doctoral study in the following research areas:

  1. The Political Economy and Organisational Dynamics of, and Production Cultures in, the Media, Cultural, Creative, Heritage, and Digital Economy Industries;
  2. Place-making and Place-based Approaches to Tackling Structural Inequalities Using the Arts, Culture, Heritage, Creative Industries, Digital Economy, and Science and Technology;
  3. Asset-based Community Development and Related Social Justice Interventions in the Arts, Culture, Heritage, Creative Industries, and Science and Technology Contexts;
  4. Academic-policy Engagement Work in the Arts, Culture, Heritage, Creative Industries, Digital Economy, and Science and Technology; and
  5. Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D)

Teaching Summary

Current Teaching / 2024-2025

  1. Investigating Cultural Industries (MA Level);
  2. New Media and Digital Culture (UG Year 2);
  3. Researching Media and Culture (UG Year 2).

Past Teaching / 2010-2023:

MA/PGT Level

  1. Critical Issues in Media and Communication;
  2. New Media Cultures;
  3. New Media Practices;
  4. Media, Culture and Globalization;
  5. Understanding the Audience;
  6. Research Skills & the Dissertation;
  7. Cultural Industries.

UG Year 3

  1. Dissertation;
  2. International Communication(s)

UG Year 2

  1. Digital Communication and Media;
  2. Communications Research Methods;
  3. Researching Culture, Film and Media.

UG Year 1

  1. Academic Skills and Contemporary Issues;
  2. Introduction to Communications Theory;
  3. Media and Society;
  4. Academic Development;
  5. Communication and Technology.

Research Summary

Selected Current Research Projects

Improving Public Funding Allocations to Reduce Geographical Inequalities

This project seeks to improve the current UK government funding allocation system to help reduce geographical inequalities. High value and targeted funding provided to local authorities can unlock the potential of local economies, creating visible improvements within places and communities. However, like any complex system, it has its limitations. This project will provide a preliminary assessment of the pros and cons of existing funding allocation models and mechanisms and suggest recommendations for radical, moderate and incremental improvement to current processes. Working in co-production with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), this project intends to secure high policy impact.

Visioning a Creative and Cultural County - Developing Leicestershire County Council's Cultural Strategy

Visioning a Creative and Cultural County (VCCC) is a collaborative, academic-policy research impact project between the University of Nottingham (UoN) and Leicestershire County Council (LCC). Guided by a strong co-production ethos, VCCC is identifying LCC's policy needs in relation to joining up cultural provision, heritage service delivery, and the creative industries under a Cultural Strategy. To this end, VCCC is developing a programme of research activities, consultation exercises and knowledge exchange events to inform evidence-based policymaking at local and regional levels and to articulate how the process of Cultural Strategy development will support sustainable policy development and related impact going forward. To deliver this vital work meaningfully and effectively, VCCC is working in close collaboration with a range of regional and national policy partners, statutory and non-statutory bodies, and diverse local communities.

Digital Fabrication and Internet of Things (IoT) Infrastructures in the Greater China Region

This project is exploring the application of the latest digital technologies and associated Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructures in the generation and delivery of creative and innovative outputs. At the centre of this exploration is a quest for understanding what these developments mean for work patterns, production processes, organisational forms, and business models among other things. Of interest as well is what such developments might reveal about the future of the fast-paced and multifaceted activity at the intersection of the creative and technology industries, the global digital economy, evolving political agendas, competing economic ideologies, and transnational policy interventions.

Selected Publications

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