About us

The RCCIL database has been set up by the 'Centre for Research on London' (CRL) in collaboration with the Department of Cultural Policy and Management at City University London.

The RCCIL team is comprised of:

  • Howard Tumber, Director
  • Cecilia Dinardi, Programme Manager and Research Officer
  • Gail Marsom, Enterprise and Research Development Manager, School of Arts

A team of interns helped us locate and summarise research on a part-time basis: Fiona Johnstone, Melissa Wulf, Christien Garcia, Catherine Lieben, Fredrik Skargren, Natalie Landaw Mott, Elisenda Ayats-Blanch, Julia Fayda, Ugne Karaliunaite, Candace Vaivadas, Aditi Ghosh, Colin McNulty, Steven Fortune, Natalia Grincheva, Anna Casey and Bethany Randell. More recently, Giacomo Brogi and Miriam Rodriguez joined the team.

Various stakeholders were contacted at different stages of the project, and an advisory group was set up and consulted.

Advisory group members: 

  • Dr Adam Cooper (DCMS Head of Research, and Programme Manager for CASE)
  • Alan Freeman (GLA Economics)
  • John Holden (Visiting Professor Cultural Policy & Management, City University London)
  • Kate Oakley (Visiting Professor Cultural Policy & Management, City University London)
  • Prof. Andy Pratt (Professor of Culture, Media and Economy and Director of the Centre for Culture, Media and Creative Industries Research at King's College London)
  • Prof. Philip Schlesinger (Academic Director of the Centre for Cultural Policy Research and Professor in Cultural Policy, University of Glasgow)
  • Vicky Woollard (Head of the Department of Cultural Policy & Management and Programme Director for the MA Culture, Policy and Management Pathways, City University London)

Kim Ward (Researcher for the RAL database) acted as a consultant in several occassions. 

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Centre for Research on London (CRL)

Director: Prof. Howard Tumber

The CRL is an independent research body based at City University London. Its function is to develop an information service and act as a clearing-house, commissioning and undertaking research in response to demand.

The concept for a centre focusing on research in London was initiated by Prof. Howard Tumber at City University London. Howard Tumber, together with Robin Thompson (co-author of the London Plan and consultant to the Greater London Authority), developed this concept and following a number of consultations and meetings with various stakeholders, prepared a prospectus. The Centre received funding from HEFCE's Innovation Fund, City University London, and ICAR (Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees), for its first pilot project entitled 'Research Asylum in London' (RAL), a web-site and database containing summaries of pieces of research on asylum and refugees issues in London.

After the successful development of RAL, the Centre secured further funding from HEFCE's Innovation Fund for its second pilot project, RCCIL.

RCCIL is an independent database of research on London's cultural & creative industries. It aims to make research more accessible to policy-makers, academics & service-providers.