Analysing Earnings from Creative Education and Creative Work: Decomposing University, Industry and Social Inequalities.

自2018年以来，对纵向教育成果（LEO）数据集（一个由英国政府创建的关联管理数据集）的分析，估计了高等教育的“回报”——毕业生与未上大学的人相比的收入差异，以及毕业生收入根据他们就读的机构类型、个人特征（性别、年龄、种族和社会经济地位）和他们学习的科目的变化。许多分析报告称，与没有上过大学的同类人相比，创意艺术学位（包括艺术与设计、表演艺术和媒体研究）的毕业生平均收入只有很小的“毕业生溢价”，或者至少低于其他学科的毕业生。无论是对高等教育还是文化创意产业政策而言，这个话题都具有相当大的政策意义。英国的创意教育在国际上受到高度重视，这些学位被视为进入cci工作的途径，在2011年至2019年期间，英国cci的就业人数增长了三倍。2023年，英国文化、媒体和体育部（Department for Culture, Media and Sport）将cci的蓬勃发展与创意毕业生收入较低的现象作为一个研究兴趣领域进行了对比。该奖学金将使用LEO数据集的第二次迭代，重点分析创造性教育和创造性就业。这个新版本的LEO现在提供了与就业行业相关的收入数据，这创造了一个机会来检查较低的创意毕业生收入是否与cci，教育（创意毕业生的共同目的地）或其他地方的工作有关。此外，先前的研究发现，许多从事创造性职业的人没有学习过创造性科目：学者和政策制定者都对了解创造性就业的教育途径有浓厚的兴趣。考虑到政府应该减少那些不能提供高毕业生收入的学位的名额，能源部削减了主要影响创意艺术学位的名额，以及伯克贝克学院、金史密斯学院等机构宣布关闭主要是创意艺术领域的项目，该奖学金的政策相关性是迫切的。该奖学金将分析创意毕业生和创意工作者的收入，以解决学位科目、机构和就业行业之间的关系，以及社会不平等，以解释不同的收入结果。这将与劳动力调查和年度人口调查进行三角测量，后者收集有关劳动力和就业特征的信息。该奖学金受益于两位导师：克里斯蒂娜•伊安内利（Cristina Iannelli）教授，她是国际知名的教育和劳动力市场社会分层、毕业生成果和教育学科选择影响方面的专家；以及经济学家、前政府顾问威尔·库克博士，他擅长分析教育成果。该奖学金以该研究员对创意经济中的不平等和社会流动性的更广泛研究为基础，并为其作出贡献。作为《文化对你有害》一书的合著者，她擅长研究社会阶层背景、教育和社交网络如何影响创造性职业的成功。在这项工作的基础上，该奖学金将为理解创造性工作中按薪酬水平划分的社会和教育不平等作出重大和创新的贡献，并将有助于确保该部门成为对所有人都有益的工作场所。

Since 2018 analysis of the Longitudinal Educational Outcomes (LEO) dataset, a linked administrative dataset created by the UK government, have estimated the "returns" to higher education - the difference in income for graduates, compared to those that don't attend University, and variations in graduate incomes according to the kind of institution that they attend, their personal characteristics (gender, age, ethnicity and socio-economic status), and the subject(s) that they study. Many of the analyses reported that, on average, graduates of creative arts degrees (including art and design, performing arts and media studies) had only a small "graduate premium" in earnings compared to similar people who had not attended University, or at least less than graduates in other subjects.This topic is of considerable policy interest, both for Higher Education and also Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) Policy. Creative education in the UK is highly-regarded internationally, and these degrees are seen as routes into work in CCIs, which saw job numbers increasing by three times the rate of employment in the UK between 2011 and 2019. In 2023 the Department for Culture, Media and Sport specified the contrast being the buoyancy of the CCIs and the lower earnings of creative graduates as an Area of Research Interest.This fellowship will use the second iteration of the LEO dataset for a focused analysis of creative education and creative employment. This new version of LEO now offers data on earnings linked to industry of employment, which creates an opportunity to examine whether lower creative graduate earnings are associated with work within CCIs, in Education (a common destination for creative graduates) or elsewhere. Additionally, previous studies found that many in creative occupations had not studied creative subjects: there is strong interest both from scholars and from policymakers to understand the educational routes into creative employment. The policy relevance of this fellowship is urgent, given suggestions that the government should reduce the number of places on degrees that did not offer high graduate earnings, cuts by DoE that predominantly affect creative arts degrees, and announcements of programme closures by Birkbeck, Goldsmiths others, largely in the creative arts.This fellowship will analyse earnings of creative graduates, and of creative workers, to address the relationship between degree subject, institution, and industry of employment, as well as social inequalities, in explaining different earnings outcomes. This will be triangulated against the Labour Force and Annual Population Surveys, which capture information on workforce and employment characteristics. The fellowship benefits from two mentors: Professor Cristina Iannelli, an internationally regarded expert in social stratification in education and the labour market, graduate outcomes and the impact of subject choices in education; and Dr Will Cook, an economist and former government adviser with expertise in the analysis of educational outcomes.The fellowship builds on, and contributes to, the Fellow's broader research on inequalities and social mobility in the creative economy. As co-author of the book "Culture is bad for you" she has expertise in how social class background, education and social networks are involved in success in creative careers. Building on this work, this fellowship will make a significant and innovative contribution to understanding of social and educational inequalities in creative work, according to levels of pay, and will help to ensure that the sector is a rewarding workplace for all.