Bronwyn Coate
Biographic Data
| ID | 351910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bronwyn Coate |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bronwyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Coate |
| SIGNATURE | COATE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | RMIT University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9148-3751 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A behavioural approach to understanding cultural participation
This article examines the role of behavioural determinants on an individual’s level of cultural participation across a range of cultural activities. Using behavioural insights to incorporate psychometric tools within a survey administered to a sample of the Australian population, the resulting dataset is analysed using ordered logit regression to uncover evidence on the role of curiosity, personality and values on cultural participation activitie…
Articulating Bookish Value
Our research looks at the concept of value in relation to local books. In particular, we are interested in value beyond price and the question of how to recognize and articulate dimensions of value that are more than economic. We argue that a fuller and more nuanced understanding of value in relation to local books is necessary in order to positively impact local, state and national arts and cultural policy levers that can serve to protect, nurtu…
Through a glass darkly
This paper presents findings based on a novel approach to researching identity and inequality in the workplace. Our research results from a large survey of camera department employees in the Australian screen industry. Workers were invited to self-nominate various personal identifications, but also to tell us how they thought they were perceived by others. With this information we analysed workplace discrimination in terms of the various possible…
Hans Abbing
Risky business
The field of cultural policy has seen a shift towards considerations of diversity, with government bodies increasingly leveraging funding to combat inequality within organisations. A barrier to this aim is a lack of quantitative data, which would provide a means to evaluate the impact of specific policies in practice. This article investigates the relationship between gender inequality at an organisational level and cultural policy at a sectoral …
Who Did You Meet at the Venice Biennale? Education-to-Work Transition Enhancers for Aspiring Arts Professionals in Australia
Precarious employment and unpaid labour are common features of the cultural and creative industries. While existing literature highlights the benefit of professional development in building careers, it focuses on self-driven rather than formalised activities. Social capital and social disadvantage are recognised as major factors limiting career success. Yet, it is unclear whether formalised professional development programs offer advantages to ov…
The behavioural economics of culture
Is there a 'Venice Effect'? Participation in the Venice Biennale and the implications for artists' careers
Prestige is widely considered to positively influence the careers of artists, and the Venice Biennale is arguably the most prestigious event in the international visual arts calendar. This article examines the impact that appearing in the Venice Biennale has on artists' careers. With a sample of 98 artists from six countries who participated in the Biennale in the 20 years between 1997 and 2017, we used data relating to artists' exhibition activi…
What Makes an Artrepreneur
The economic psychology of creating and venturing
Re-Distributing Gender in the Global Film Industry
This article draws on a big cultural dataset of over 130 million global screen times to consider the impact that the gender of a film's director has on the screening prevalence and geographic spread of new release feature films at the cinema. We compare results based on film screenings between December 2012 and May 2015 across a set of forty countries including the United States, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, India, and Brazil. This research…
Understanding the dynamics between the United States and Australian film markets
Australia has historically been an important market for American media exports. As far as film trade relations between the two countries go, there is an anecdotal perception that distributors follow a ‘10% rule’ to predict the popularity of Hollywood titles in Australia, expecting American films to earn around one-tenth of their domestic box office receipts when screened downunder. Nonetheless, as prevalent as this ‘rule’ has been in the industry…
The Cinema Cities Index
Cinema culture varies markedly around the globe and between cities. While this is obvious, the drivers of cinema culture are complex and interact in different ways across different locations and often give rise to a distinct character of localised cinema. This can be witnessed at different scales: across countries, between cities and, on a more granular level, based on localised neighbourhoods. In this article, we apply quantitative methods to in…
Australian films at large
International markets have in recent years become a critical component of the business model for Hollywood cinema, opening up a renewed interest in the global dimensions of film diffusion. Smaller film-producing nations such as Denmark have similarly emphasised global distribution as a key component of the industry's success. Typically, however, claims for Australian film industry success rely almost exclusively on a film's domestic box office pe…
Taking care of people and communities
PURPOSE - The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of NGOs in facilitating economic recovery to the tsunami devastated regions in Southern Thailand. This includes large international NGOs as well as small community based or local NGOs and how these organizations engage with one another as well as with government authorities and of course the local community to aid recovery. In particular, focus will be on how NGOs are able to assist local…
Who Did You Meet at the Venice Biennale? Education-to-Work Transition Enhancers for Aspiring Arts Professionals in Australia
Precarious employment and unpaid labour are common features of the cultural and creative industries. While existing literature highlights the benefit of professional development in building careers, it focuses on self-driven rather than formalised activities. Social capital and social disadvantage are recognised as major factors limiting career success. Yet, it is unclear whether formalised professional development programs offer advantages to ov…
Is there a 'Venice Effect'? Participation in the Venice Biennale and the implications for artists' careers
Prestige is widely considered to positively influence the careers of artists, and the Venice Biennale is arguably the most prestigious event in the international visual arts calendar. This article examines the impact that appearing in the Venice Biennale has on artists' careers. With a sample of 98 artists from six countries who participated in the Biennale in the 20 years between 1997 and 2017, we used data relating to artists' exhibition activi…
The Cinema Cities Index
Cinema culture varies markedly around the globe and between cities. While this is obvious, the drivers of cinema culture are complex and interact in different ways across different locations and often give rise to a distinct character of localised cinema. This can be witnessed at different scales: across countries, between cities and, on a more granular level, based on localised neighbourhoods. In this article, we apply quantitative methods to in…
Taking care of people and communities
PURPOSE - The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of NGOs in facilitating economic recovery to the tsunami devastated regions in Southern Thailand. This includes large international NGOs as well as small community based or local NGOs and how these organizations engage with one another as well as with government authorities and of course the local community to aid recovery. In particular, focus will be on how NGOs are able to assist local…
Australian films at large
International markets have in recent years become a critical component of the business model for Hollywood cinema, opening up a renewed interest in the global dimensions of film diffusion. Smaller film-producing nations such as Denmark have similarly emphasised global distribution as a key component of the industry's success. Typically, however, claims for Australian film industry success rely almost exclusively on a film's domestic box office pe…
The Cinema Cities Index
Cinema culture varies markedly around the globe and between cities. While this is obvious, the drivers of cinema culture are complex and interact in different ways across different locations and often give rise to a distinct character of localised cinema. This can be witnessed at different scales: across countries, between cities and, on a more granular level, based on localised neighbourhoods. In this article, we apply quantitative methods to in…
Understanding the dynamics between the United States and Australian film markets
Australia has historically been an important market for American media exports. As far as film trade relations between the two countries go, there is an anecdotal perception that distributors follow a ‘10% rule’ to predict the popularity of Hollywood titles in Australia, expecting American films to earn around one-tenth of their domestic box office receipts when screened downunder. Nonetheless, as prevalent as this ‘rule’ has been in the industry…
Re-Distributing Gender in the Global Film Industry
This article draws on a big cultural dataset of over 130 million global screen times to consider the impact that the gender of a film's director has on the screening prevalence and geographic spread of new release feature films at the cinema. We compare results based on film screenings between December 2012 and May 2015 across a set of forty countries including the United States, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, India, and Brazil. This research…
What Makes an Artrepreneur
The economic psychology of creating and venturing
The behavioural economics of culture
Is there a 'Venice Effect'? Participation in the Venice Biennale and the implications for artists' careers
Prestige is widely considered to positively influence the careers of artists, and the Venice Biennale is arguably the most prestigious event in the international visual arts calendar. This article examines the impact that appearing in the Venice Biennale has on artists' careers. With a sample of 98 artists from six countries who participated in the Biennale in the 20 years between 1997 and 2017, we used data relating to artists' exhibition activi…
Hans Abbing
Risky business
The field of cultural policy has seen a shift towards considerations of diversity, with government bodies increasingly leveraging funding to combat inequality within organisations. A barrier to this aim is a lack of quantitative data, which would provide a means to evaluate the impact of specific policies in practice. This article investigates the relationship between gender inequality at an organisational level and cultural policy at a sectoral …
Who Did You Meet at the Venice Biennale? Education-to-Work Transition Enhancers for Aspiring Arts Professionals in Australia
Precarious employment and unpaid labour are common features of the cultural and creative industries. While existing literature highlights the benefit of professional development in building careers, it focuses on self-driven rather than formalised activities. Social capital and social disadvantage are recognised as major factors limiting career success. Yet, it is unclear whether formalised professional development programs offer advantages to ov…
Articulating Bookish Value
Our research looks at the concept of value in relation to local books. In particular, we are interested in value beyond price and the question of how to recognize and articulate dimensions of value that are more than economic. We argue that a fuller and more nuanced understanding of value in relation to local books is necessary in order to positively impact local, state and national arts and cultural policy levers that can serve to protect, nurtu…
Through a glass darkly
This paper presents findings based on a novel approach to researching identity and inequality in the workplace. Our research results from a large survey of camera department employees in the Australian screen industry. Workers were invited to self-nominate various personal identifications, but also to tell us how they thought they were perceived by others. With this information we analysed workplace discrimination in terms of the various possible…
A behavioural approach to understanding cultural participation
This article examines the role of behavioural determinants on an individual’s level of cultural participation across a range of cultural activities. Using behavioural insights to incorporate psychometric tools within a survey administered to a sample of the Australian population, the resulting dataset is analysed using ordered logit regression to uncover evidence on the role of curiosity, personality and values on cultural participation activitie…
Cultural Industries and Urban Development (12 works) · Economics (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · The arts (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Business (6 works) · Art History and Market Analysis (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (5 works)