Dr Jonathan Vickery is Programme Director for the new MA in International Design and Communication Management. The course offers a unique synthesis of communication analysis, management and the study of organization for those working with visual communication. He researches broadly in the cultural and creative industries, is an editor and a critic, but also works as a designer and art director (he is designer and a founding editor of Aesthesis: International Journal of Art and Aesthetics in Management and Organizational Life). He is one of three directors of The Aesthesis Project, involving international conferences and a global arts enterprise, Aesthesis//CREATE. He is Reviews Editor and regular contributor to Art and Architecture Journal and has been involved in a number of public projects involving public art and artists working in the public sphere. He on the management committee of Warwick's Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts. Dr Vickery completed his doctoral thesis on modernist aesthetics and was Henry Moore Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Essex before coming to Warwick as a lecturer in modern and contemporary art in 2001. He joined the Centre in 2004. He takes doctoral students in any area relating to creative and cultural industry, contemporary art and culture, creative organization and management. Current PhD students are studying cultural policy, management and regeneration strategy.

Research Interests

• The cultural and creative industries
• Art theory, aesthetics, criticism and interpretation
• Cultural policy, institutional practice and the public sphere 
• Organization and creativity
  

Recent and representative publications

• 'Organising Art: Constructing Aesthetic Value', Culture and Organization, Vol.12 (1), 2006.
• 'Design Management, Urban Regeneration and the Organization of Culture', in Jerrard, B. and Hands, D. (eds), Design Management: Fieldwork and Applications, London: Routledge, 2007.
• ed. (with Diarmuid Costello), Art: Key Contemporary Thinkers, Oxford: Berg, 2007.
• 'The Emergence of Culture-Led Regeneration: A Policy Concept and its Discontents', CCPS Research Papers, University of Warwick, 2007.
• 'Avant Garde Organization', Aesthesis: International Journal of Art and Aesthetics in Management and Organizational Life, Vol.1, No. 2, 2007.
• ed. (with Ian King and Ceri Watkins) Aesthesis Vol. 1, no's 1 and 2; ed. Vol. 1 No.3, Special Issue 'Aesthetics of Organizational Memory' (due May 2008).

Courses Taught

• Communication Strategy and Innovation
• Cross-Cultural Communication 
• Organisation and management in the contemporary art world: museums, galleries and art markets
• Art and culture since the 1960s
• Avant-garde art, architecture and design in the twentieth century
• Aesthetics, criticism and the theory of art
• Research methodologies

Contact Details

J.P.Vickery@warwick.ac.uk