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BOP Consulting team

Meet the people who work with you to plan, design and deliver sustainable cultural projects, demonstrate their impact and identify opportunities for you to evolve and grow.

BAFA - Festivals Forward

Festivals Forward

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BBC in the West Midlands Report

BBC in the West Midlands

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The City as Creative Platform

The City as Creative Platform: New Urban Centres of Creative and Digital Services

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Impact Assessment Edinburgh Festivals

Impact Assessment Edinburgh Festivals

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Evaluation of the DCMS Culture Recovery Fund

Evaluation of the DCMS Culture Recovery Fund

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Creative Industries and the Climate Emergency

Creative Industries and the Climate Emergency: The Path to Net Zero

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Latest Insights

BOP Reports

Richard Naylor has over 25 years of applied research and consultancy expertise in the private sector and academia, and an extensive understanding of public policy. He supervises all BOP’s major research projects bringing rigour, depth and theoretical insight to create robust practical solutions for clients.


He has grown BOP’s research and evaluation work, to offer renowned specialist expertise in social and economic impact; project and programme evaluation; creative industries mapping and cultural statistics; business support and skills development; urban and regional development, intellectual property, innovation and organisational change.


Richard is engaged by projects that span multiple topics and continents. Recent initiatives he has led on include an evaluation of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Public Art Programme across five US cities; the research and data partner for UNESCO’s regular reviews of countries’ progress towards the 2005 Convention on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (published as Re|Shaping Cultural Policies); the evaluation of the UK Research and Innovation / AHRC £80m Creative Industries Clusters Programme; an evaluation and strategic review of the German Federal Foreign Office’s Cultural Protection programme (‘Kulturehalt’); and the Creative and Cultural Industries in Urban Revitalization: A Practice Based Handbook, for the Inter-American Development Bank. Richard has also been the Research Director of the World Cities Culture Forum since its inception in 2012, and now plays the same role for BOP’s forthcoming data and insight service on culture in cities.


Richard shares a breadth of experience gained from working across four continents, in countries as diverse as Perú, Jordan, Taiwan, the US, South Africa, China, Brazil, Cuba and Vietnam.

Richard Naylor is a world leading expert in research methodologies for the culture and the creative industries, having been an early innovator in the development of frameworks for measuring the economic and social impacts of cultural activities.

Director, Research

Richard Naylor

Richard Naylor - Director, Research | BOP

We work around the world to build and support new cultural and creative economies. We have created a set of tools that give leaders and decision-makers an unparalleled understanding of their cultural and creative assets and how to make the most of them. Here is a selection of our projects.

Projects

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UNESCO's Re|Shaping Policies for Creativity Report – Addressing culture as a global public good

UNESCO

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Opportunities and Challenges of AI for the Cultural and Creative Industries

European Commission

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Creativity in health settings

GOSH Arts

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Protect urban heritage to prevent growth in inequality

National Trust

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Review of the Scottish Animation Sector

Creative Scotland

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What's next for a video games cluster?

ukie

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Reshaping cultural policies

UNESCO

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Review of the Video Games sector in the West Midlands

ukie

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Battersea Power Station

Battersea Power Station

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Options appraisal and business plan for Kettle's Yard

Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge

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Research into digital making

Nesta

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