Taylor, Mark R. (Lecturer) (Personal Name)

Culture is bad for you, 2020: back cover (Mark Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods at the University of Sheffield)

University of Sheffield site: Dr. Mark Taylor (Mark is Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods. He’s interested in cultural and creative industries, with particular focuses on social inequalities in work and in participation. His background is in sociology, but his research interests are interdisciplinary, across sociology, cultural policy, cultural studies, music, games, and other fields. His most recent book, with Orian Brook and Dave O’Brien, is Culture is bad for you: Inequality in the cultural and creative industries. He's also the author of reports on the UK Games Industry Census from both 2020 and 2022, which he delivers in participation with Ukie. He delivered a talk on this work at the Game Developer Conference in 2022. Alongside his role at the SMI, he also sits on the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport's College of Experts. Mark joined the SMI in 2014. Before that, he worked at the Universities of Manchester and York, and completed his DPhil in Sociology at the University of Oxford.) https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/smi/people/academic/mark-taylor