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Brian is an Associate Professor within the School of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Southampton. He is originally from Canada and received his PhD in Geography from the University of Toronto. He has held research fellowships at the Martin Prosperity Institute in Toronto and the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University in Sweden. Brian is interested in how digital technologies and global competition are reshaping the marketplace for cultural products and the working lives of entrepreneurs and intermediaries in the creative economy. He has published articles, book chapters and reports, about the music and fashion industries, aesthetic labour, curation, value creation, digital platforms, tourism and the mobilities of ‘talent’. He has also co-edited four books about the creative economy. In 2012 Brian co-created the annual European Colloquium on Culture, Creativity and Economy (CCE). He is currently researching the processes and spatial dynamics of curation, the trans-local nature of cultural scenes and creative economies in Africa.