David Wright
Associate professor
Centre Director Cultural & Media Policy Studies
The University of Warwick
United Kingdom
Biography
David Wright joined the University in 2008 and, following a year teaching in the Sociology department, joined the Centre in 2009. Before coming to Warwick he completed five years of post-doctoral research with the ESRC's centre for research into socio-cultural change, CRESC, based at the Open University in Milton Keynes. His PhD - a study of work in the UK retail book trade - was awarded by the University of Nottingham in 2004. He helped co-found and launch our MA programme in Global Media and Communication in 2010.
Research Interest
Research interests are in the sociology of culture, the cultural industries, popular culture and cultural taste. My latest book, published by Palgrave in July 2015, is Understanding Cultural Taste and I'm currently developing research projects on the meaning and politics of cultural work, 'computational cultural policy' and cultural participation.
Publications
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Maguire JS, Matthews J, editors. The cultural intermediaries reader. Sage; 2014 Jul 14.
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Wright D. Imagining the cultural consumer: class, cool and connoisseurship.
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Wright D. Understanding cultural taste: Sensation, skill and sensibility. Springer; 2015 Jul 28.
