Robin Steedman

2025-09-04 10:06:57

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Lecturer of Creative Industries, School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow

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Robin Steedman is a Lecturer in Creative Industries at the University of Glasgow. She is interested in global creative and cultural industries, and in questions of diversity and inequality in media production, distribution and viewership. She is particularly interested in film and other creative industries in Africa, with a current focus on Kenya and Ghana.

She studied International Development and Religious Studies at McGill University before doing an MA in African Studies at SOAS University of London. She also did her PhD at SOAS University of London where she studied the work of female filmmakers in Kenya. Before joining Glasgow, she worked as a Creative Economy Engagement Fellow at the University of Sheffield and as a Postdoc at Copenhagen Business School.

Her work has been published in journals such as Poetics, Information, Communication & Society, Cultural Trends, and Environment and Planning A. Her first book, Creative Hustling: Women Making and Distributing Films from Nairobi, is published with the MIT Press.

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