Nick Henry

Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor

Coventry University

Speaker Biography

Nick is a Professor of Economic Geography, Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor Research and Enterprise and Coventry University Group Theme Lead for the Cultural and Industries.
Current projects include West Midlands CreaTech Frontiers (‘creative clusters’), West Midlands Creative Innovation Scale Up Lab (WM CISL), Coventry and Warwickshire Exchange (CWX), various artists’ livelihoods projects, and Createch Europe Connects. Place-based projects across Coventry/West Midlands include Coventry Culture Works Collective, Coventry Cultural Gateway, British Art Show 10 and Coventry Arts Show, SHAPE ACE Place Partnership and forthcoming design | stage – the 50th Society of British Designers Conference in 2027.
Nick is a (founding) Director of Creative United, Somerset House, London and Editor-in-Chief of European Urban and Regional Studies.

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