Ruth Bridgstock

Dr Ruth Bridgstock works within CCI’s Creative Workforce program. Her research interests relate to lifelong individual career and organisational development in the post-compulsory education and business contexts of the 21st century. Her PhD research took a longitudinal approach to the investigation of individual and contextual predictors of graduate employability and early career success in the creative industries.

Ruth’s current fellowship project ‘Creating Innovators’ (http://www.creating-innovators.com) is concerned with building and testing theory relating to effective university education for careers in the innovation sectors, based on the trajectories of high flyers in the fields of science, technology, and the creative industries.