Dave O’Brien is Chancellor’s Fellow in Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Edinburgh and a co-investigator at the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (AHRC PEC). He has published extensively on inequality in the creative economy, including his latest book Culture is bad for you, which is co-authored with Drs Mark Taylor and Orian Brook. This week he has co-authored new research on the crisis of social mobility in creative industries, published by the AHRC PEC, and the Creative Majority report on what works to support diversity in the creative industries, published by the All Party Parliamentary Group for Creative Diversity.