Prof Dave O'Brien

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Poster for the ARC exhibition at Kingston uni
Kirk Hammett shredding
James Hetfield of Metallica doing some smell the fart guitar playing
Data on the creative workforce from the recent Creative PEC report on audiences and workforces
Mo Salah waves to the crowd for the last time at Anfield
Super furry animals on stage in London
Picture of a sad looking stuffed dog, which I’m slightly worried might be a sign that the neighbourhood is about to be invaded by angry furries seeking revenge
The hill Dickinson stadium, home of Derby losers Everton FC
Robert Duvall played Stalin and Eichmann in two, unrelated, 1990s TV movies
The emirates stadium preparing for a pre match light show. State of it
Marine score a penalty to go 2-0 up against Southport FC
Anderlect about to enter the stadium
Semester 1 research AHCP seminars poster
Screenshot of the title and abstract of a forthcoming research article 'Precocity and second job holding in the creative economy'
Poster for the class and TV symposium at the university of Leeds on 19th September 2025, to register contact WHATSONTVCLASS@GMAIL.COM
Neil Young and the chrome hearts in Hyde park
A man with a fork in his man bun making the 🤘
The stage for Slayer at Finsbury Park
Iron maiden live in London 2025
Iron maiden live in London 2025
NIN logo from the close of the show at the O2 London
The closing logo from NIN in Manchester
Screenshot of the new Creative PEC interactive dashboard on local authority level arts engagement data, highlighting Liverpool
Table showing model results for graduate earnings, 15 months after graduation. It shows how, following controlling for a range of factors such as demographic characteristics, arts and culture graduates earn the same as all other graduates in arts and culture occupations, but earn less (compared to all other graduates) when they enter all other occupations More details are in the report available here https://pec.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Creative-PEC-Higher-education-and-the-arts-and-culture-sectors-FINAL-22-04-2025.pdf
Table covering occupation of employment 15 months after graduation, by higher education subject studied, showing how arts and cultural subjects have higher proportions of graduates in arts and cultural occupations as compared to other subjects such as STEM, Social Science or Humanities Full report available here https://pec.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Creative-PEC-Higher-education-and-the-arts-and-culture-sectors-FINAL-22-04-2025.pdf
Arne Slot, at the Anfield Road end, celebrating his first title as LFC manager
A picture of huge amounts of red smoke rising next to Anfield, picture taken from the Old Swan are of Liverpool
Culture is bad for you for sale in Bookhaus Bristol
Front cover of the book culture is bad for you https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177810/
Poster for Culture is bad for you book tour. It details Bristol 24th March (in person), Manchester 27th March (in person), Edinburgh 1st April (online and in person) and Sheffield 9th April (in person). Details and tickets are all on the MUP events webpage https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/
The panic report, printed out in the library of this https://twotempleplace.org/exhibitions/lives-less-ordinary/ exhibition
Data on access to drama courses by social class origin, showing the skew towards those from upper middle class social origins at key institutions such as Sheffield, Birmingham and Manchester https://www.suttontrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/A-Class-Act.pdf
A scene from heat where Tom Sizemore’s character says “for me, the action is the juice”
A TV showing the opening screen of space marine 2 on PS5
A jar of caramel and vanilla spread
Slipknot on stage in London, from way up in the gods at the O2
A picture of Paul McCartney playing live in London, where even his terrible Xmas song sounds amazing
The backdrop for slipknot in Manchester, featuring the band’s logo
Simpsons meme of “bad student? no bad principal” Prof Matthews is the bad principal in this case 😂
Joint session of the opera and jazz APPG’s, in a committee room in parliament
Scene from heat “for me, the action is the juice”
Emma Martin starting a lecture on Tibetan Material Culture
The front cover of Britain needs change, a new book about Labour in government
Every university in the UK ranked by proportions of working class students on creative courses
A graph showing all creative subjects, university groups and class origins of students
Social class origins of creative students and all students
Graph showing the proportions of creative workers by social class origin and whether they have a degree
Front cover of the higher education section of the Sutton Trust's A Class Act report available here https://www.suttontrust.com/our-research/a-class-act/
Open Eye gallery in Liverpool
Screenshots of HMT's Red Book statement on DCMS funding https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/autumn-budget-2024/autumn-budget-2024-html
Screen shot of the first page of the 2nd edition of culture is bad for you