Justin O’Connor
Justin O'Connor

Justin O’Connor is professor of Communication and Cultural Economy in the School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He has published extensively on the cultural and creative industries, creative cities and urban regeneration in Europe, Australia, Russia and China.

He is currently preparing The Routledge Companion to the Cultural Industries (with Kate Oakley), Culture and Economy in the New Shanghai (Routledge, with Xin Gu) and After Creative Industries (Sage). He was also lead academic advisor to Manchester’s Urbis, a museum of the modern city.