Contributing authors

Jenny Johannisson (editor) is PhD and associate professor of Library and Information Science at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås. Her primary research interests include local and regional cultural policy against the backdrop of globalization processes, as well as knowledge production about cultural policy. Between 2018 and 2024, she worked as an analyst at the Swedish Agency for Cultural Policy Analysis.

Trine Bille is Professor of Cultural Economics, at the Department of Business Humanities and Law, Copenhagen Business School. She has received her PhD degree from the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. She has published about 160 books and articles in a variety of outlets. She is serving on a number of boards, including the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and ACEI, the Association of Cultural Economics International, where she was the President 2021–23.

Ola K. Berge, PhD in Cultural Studies from University of South-Eastern Norway, works as a senior cultural policy researcher at Telemark Research Institute (TRI). Berge's research interests include cultural participation and inclusion, cultural work life, culture for children and youth, foreign cultural policy and cultural diplomacy, and digital culture production, distribution, and consumption.

Erna Kaaber is a researcher at Bifröst University in Iceland, focusing on cultural policy and the role of cultural and creative industries in policy development. She leads the Icelandic lab in the Horizon-funded IN SITU project, which combines research and experimental actions to advance the innovation-related practices, capacities, and potential of cultural and creative industries based in non-urban areas of EU countries. She is a PhD candidate at Hildesheim University writing a thesis on cultural policy development in Iceland, and holds a master's degree in Cultural Management from Bifröst University.

Katja Lindqvist, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Department of Service Studies, Lund University. Her research interests comprise governance, management and entrepreneurship in the cultural and creative field. She has published and taught extensively within the field of arts and cultural management at university level and been an expert in the 2022 Government Official Inquiry for a national strategy for the cultural and creative sectors and industries.

Erla Rún Guðmundsdóttir works as the director of the Creative Industries Research Center (CIRC) in Iceland, where she has been involved as a project manager and analyst in several research projects and proposals. She holds a double master's degree, in management and economics in arts, culture, media and entertainment from Bocconi University and management of creative business processes from Copenhagen Business School. Erla previously worked at Statistics Iceland, where she was responsible for the centre's culture statistics, including the development of economic indicators regarding cultural and creative industries.

Sakarias Sokka, Title of docent in Cultural Policy, PhD in Social Sciences, MA in general history, works as a Senior Researcher in CUPORE (Center for Cultural Policy Research), Helsinki. His main research interests include history and institutionalization of cultural policy, theoretical approaches to cultural policy, arts and culture funding, and impact and evaluation of cultural policy.

Erik Vestin works as a researcher and statistician at the Swedish Agency for Cultural Policy Analysis. He has a PhD in political science from the University of Gothenburg. His research interests are in quantitative descriptions of cultural life, such as social trends in cultural participation, and in how the public is influenced by cultural policy.