Professor Doris Ruth Eikhof
- Professor of Cultural Economy & Policy (Theatre, Film & Television Studies)
- Academic Lead for Inclusive Research Practice (Research Services)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2596-4167Research interests
I am a critical creative economy scholar who specialises in diversity and inclusion in cultural work. My research in the screen industries and beyond looks to identify and remove structural barriers to inclusion. I am particularly interested in the things we do every day, consciously or unconsciously, that enable or close off opportunity for others.
My book Diversity & Inclusion: Are We Nearly There Yet? provides new frameworks and evidence for using targets to build a more inclusive creative economy. Join our D&I Targets Book Club or have a peek at the D&I Targets Playbook (published with ScreenSkills) if you’d like to know more.
Current and previous projects include the ORA 6-funded GEP Analysis study into gender equality policies in film (with Universities of Babelsberg, Rostock, Alberta and Deakin), ScreenSkills’ D&I Targets Review, the AHRC Leadership project Everyday Diversity in the UK Screen Industries (with CDN and BFI), CDN’s Doubling Disability initiative, BAFTA’s 2020 British Academy Film Awards Review, the BFI’s Workforce Diversity Evidence Review (2018), One by one: building the digital literacies of UK museums (AHRC), the Digital R&D Fund for Arts and Culture in Scotland (AHRC, Nesta & Creative Scotland) as well as projects with Creative Scotland and various arts organisations.
At the University of Glasgow I am also the Director of ArtsLab, the College of Arts & Humanities’ academic-led hub for supporting research and knowledge exchange.
I was the founding Deputy Director of the CAMEo Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies at the University of Leicester. Before joining the University of Glasgow in 2020, I worked at the Universities of Leicester, Stirling and Hamburg.
Grants
- Open Research Area for the Social Sciences (ANR, DFG, ESRC, SSHRC), GEP Analysis: Assessing, understanding and modelling the impact of gender equity policies in the film industry, with S. Loist, D. Verhoeven, E. Prommer & A. Coles (Apr 2021 – Mar 2024).
- BAFTA 2020 Nominations & Awards Review, Independent Expert Reviewer (Jun – Dec 2020).
- AHRC Leadership Fellowship Everyday diversity in the UK screen industries, with F. Hannah, S. Marsden (Apr 2019 – Oct 2021).
- Creative Diversity Network, Doubling Disability, with K. Randle, S. Marsden, K. Norman and M. Banks (Oct 2018 – Jan 2020).
- Women in View Canada, Evaluation of 5 in Focus and 2times more, with A. Coles (PI) (Mar 2018 – Mar 2019).
- AHRC Research Grant, One-by-One: Digital Skills for the Museums Sector, with R. Parry (PI) and S.-A. Barnes (Sep 2017 – Mar 2020).
- British Film Institute, Evidence Review Workforce Diversity in the UK Screen Sector, with J. Newsinger, D. Adley and D. Luchinskaya (Apr 2016 – Feb 2018).
- NESTA, AHRC and Creative Scotland, CReATeS Research Consortium for Digital R&D Fund for Arts and Culture in Scotland, with C. Squires (Co-I), P. Carmichael, T. Fenwick, N. Beech, N. MacKenzie, M. Grindle (Jun 2012 – Mar 2014).
- Scottish Universities Insight Institute, New Horizons for the Cultural Industries: Internationalisation, Leadership and Diversity, Programme of Enquiry, with C. Squires, N. Beech, N. MacKenzie (Sep – May 2013).
- Creative Scotland, Analysis of Creative Scotland’s 2011 Foundation Organisations Review Process, with A. Webb and S.A. Hurrell (Sep 2011 – Mar 2012).
- KTP Scotland, Knowledge Transfer Partnership, macrobert arts centre and Stirling Management School, with M. Mooken, S. Sacchetti, R. Sugden (Sep 2009 – Jul 2011).
Supervision
I would welcome proposals for projects that examine inclusion, diversity and equality in cultural work, broadly conceived. Proposals should take a critical view of theory, policy and practice. They should be based on an intersectional understanding of diversity and inclusion and on a recognition of the need for structural change.
- Wilcox, Meg
Who Drops The Mic? Investigating authentic and inclusive practice in podcasting
Past projects
- Career Management in the Cultural Industries: An exploratory study of individual practices and strategies
- A capabilities approach for analysing creativity and play in different publics
- “We need arts as much as we need food. Our responsibility is for that to be possible”: Insights from Scottish cultural leaders on the changing landscape of their work
Teaching
- Working in the UK Screen Industries (course convenor)
- Research Methods and Dissertation Preparation FTV
Research datasets
Additional information
- Member of Creative Scotland's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Group
- Member of SIGN & XR Stories EDI Advisory Board
- Member of the National Partnership for Culture Measuring Change Group (2020-2022)
- Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA)
- Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)
- Deputy Director, CAMEo Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies (2016-2020)
- Visiting academic, Deakin Business School, Deakin University, Australia (2019).
- Steering group member, Midlands Higher Education & Culture Forum (2018-2020)
- Visiting academic, Department of Sociology, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden (2014).
- Visiting academic, Department of Organization/Imagine Research Centre, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhage, Denmark (2009).
