Cultural work

Journal articles
Ashton, D. (2011) ‘Media Work and the Creative Industries: Identity Work, Professionalism and Employability’, Education and Training 53(6): 546-560

Ashton, D. (2011) ‘Upgrading the self: Technology and the self in digital games perpetual innovation economy’, Convergence 17(3): 307-321.

Ashton, D. (2011) ‘Playstations and workstations: Identifying and negotiating digital games work’, Information Technology & People, 24(1): 10-25.

Ashton. D. (2011) 'Pathways to creativity: self-learning and customising in/for the creative economy', Journal of Cultural Economy 4(2): 189-203 [ISSN: 1753-0350]

Ashton, D. (2011) ‘Media education and media industries: Identity, anxiety, and aspirations’, Media Education Research Journal, 1(2): 85-93.

Ashton, D. (2010) 'Productive passions and everyday pedagogies: Exploring the industry-ready agenda in Higher Education, in Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education 9(1): 41-56 [ISSN: 1474273X]

Ashton, D. (2010) 'Player, Student, Designer: Digital Games Design Students and their Changing Relations with Games', Games and Culture 5(3): 256-77 [ISSN 1555-4120].

Ashton, D. (2009) 'Critical thinking across contexts', Politics and Culture 10(4)

Ashton, D. (2009) 'Making it professionally: Student identity and industry professionals in higher education', Journal of Education and Work 22(5): 283-300 [ISSN 1363-9080].

Conference papers
With Nic Jeune ‘Reflections on practice: work-based learning, identity and professionalism’, Media Education Summit 2011, Ravensbourne, 6-7.09.11

‘Creative Labour and Higher Education’, Moral Economies of Creative Labour, Leeds University, 7-8.07.11

'Enterprise, employability and identity: Researching Artswork Media', Creative Enterprise, Birmingham City University, 18.05.11. [Invited paper]

‘Creative work and higher education: Industry, identity, passion, and precarity’, Shaping Things to Come, ADM-HEA Annual Forum, RIBA, 17.05.11 [Invited paper]

with Nic Jeune 'Cultural work and creative agency: contexts and practical means', The Creativity and Work Conference, London, 12.11.10

'Mediating industry and employability: Images and accounts from a hybrid space', Employability in the Curriculum; Beyond the Bolt-On?, University of Central Lancashire. 22-23.06.10.

'Freelancing, moonlighting, networking, volunteering: cultural workers
in-the-making', The Future of Cultural Work, Open University, 7.06.10

'Positioning participatory production', DCRC symposium Access All Areas, UWE, 21.05.2010.

with Tim Middleton, Antonia Clews, Nic Jeune, ‘‘Where’s the timetable?’ Hot housing entrepreneurship in creative students’, Claiming Creativity, ELIA/Columbia University, 21-23.04.10

with Nic Jeune, 'From Campus to Creative Quarter', Knowledge Spaces, University of Warwick, 29.03.10

'Researching creative media work: Media Studies in/and the creative economy', Higher Education and the Creative Economy, University of Southampton, 22-23.03.10

‘”You just end up feeling more professional”: Media production and industry-ready personhood’. MeCCSA 2010, LSE, 6-8.01.10.

‘Students in studios and user-creativity in professional places: An analysis of media production, amateur interests and professional practices’. Media Education Summit, Liverpool John Moores University 8-9.09.09.