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Wednesday 21 October 2026
Orian Brook

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Orian Brook

Chancellor’s Fellow in Social Policy

Orian Brook is Chancellor’s Fellow in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh, an ESRC ADR Research Fellow, and a member of the Department for Culture, Media & Sport’s College of Experts. Her research uses linked administrative and survey data to explore social and spatial inequalities in the creative economy. She is co-author of Culture is bad for you: Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries (Manchester University Press) and A Class Act (Sutton Trust).

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  1. · Analysis

    Side hustles, moonlighting, resting actors, and multiple jobholding in creative work

    For Orian Brook, having multiple jobs isn’t a sign of a failure to get a career in the creative economy but a key component of making such roles livable