Dr. Sofie Jacobs
Dr. Sofie Jacobs was one of the two finalists for the 2017 ENCATC Research Award for her PhD thesis, “A configurational perspective on success in small-sized creative organisations,” defended at the University of Antwerp in Belgium.
Sofie Jacobs is Professor of Sustainable Career Development at Antwerp Management School and a guest lecturer in Human Resource Management at the University of Antwerp. She is also Academic Director of the Global Leadership Program at Antwerp Management School, where she works with students on self-awareness, personal growth and self-leadership in preparation for their future careers. She obtained her PhD in 2017 with research examining different pathways to success in small-sized creative organisations.
Her research has continued to develop towards questions of sustainable careers and the changing nature of work. She currently investigates sustainable careers from a multi-stakeholder perspective, the challenges and opportunities associated with non-standard careers such as freelancing, career mobility, flexible talent management and career development. She also maintains a particular expertise in Qualitative Comparative Analysis, which she applies to organisational and career-related research.
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Dr. Steven Hadley
Dr. Steven Hadley was one of the two finalists for the 2017 ENCATC Research Award for her PhD thesis “Clothed in an inclusive ethic: Discourses of Democracy and the Role of Audience Development in English Cultural Policy" .
Hadley is an academic, consultant and researcher working internationally in arts management, cultural policy and audience engagement. He is currently a Lecturer in Events and Tourism at De Montfort University and is also associated with research and teaching activities at the University of Sheffield and Queen’s University Belfast. His professional career combines academic research with extensive experience in the cultural sector, including seven years as Chief Executive of Audiences NI, Northern Ireland's audience development agency.
His doctoral research examines the relationship between audience development, cultural policy and democratic access to culture. The research considers how ideas of inclusion and democracy are constructed within English cultural policy and questions the assumptions underlying audience development as a cultural policy practice. This work established themes that have continued to shape Hadley's subsequent research on cultural democracy, audience engagement and the relationship between cultural policy and ideology.
