Areas of expertise:
Socially engaged practice; cultural policy; labour conditions; practice-based research; research methodologies; community-based research; art and activism; art and politics; collaborative art practices; evaluation
Profile:
Sophie Hope is a practice-based researcher and teacher. Her work is often developed with others through the format of devised workshops exploring subjects such as art and politics, physical and emotional experiences of work, stories of socially engaged art and the ethics of employability in the creative industries. Sophie carried out her doctorate at Birkbeck, University of London in cultural democracy and the commissioning of art to effect social change from 2006-11. She was an independent curator for 10 years, working locally and internationally to develop a collaborative, socially engaged curatorial practice. On completing her PhD she worked as a full-time academic, developing her practice-based research and teaching on the MA Arts Policy and Management at Birkbeck from 2010-2023. She has been in post as Lecturer in Socially Engaged Practices at Guildhall School of Music and Drama since February 2024 where she is co-developing the Guildhall De-Centre for Socially Engaged Practice and Research and teaching on the MA Collaborative Performance Making.
Qualifications:
PhD, PGCEHE, MA, BA
How to build a staffroom: research into carers’ experiences and needs for care and rest at work
Hope, S., & Richards, J. (2025). How to build a staffroom: research into carers’ experiences and needs for care and rest at work. University of Huddersfield Press. https://unipress.hud.ac.uk/plugins/books/37/
2025
View OutputAllowing a conversation to go nowhere to get somewhere: intra-personal spatial care and placemaking' In: 'Trauma Informed Placemaking'
Hope, S., Labern, S., Gordon, R., Courage, C. (Ed.), & McKeown, A. (Ed.) (2024). Allowing a conversation to go nowhere to get somewhere: intra-personal spatial care and placemaking' In: 'Trauma Informed Placemaking'. Routledge.
2024
View OutputCards on the Table: Critical reflections on a participatory research method
Hope, S., & Mulhall, H. (2024). Cards on the Table: Critical reflections on a participatory research method. Conjunctions, 11(1), 1 - 14. https://doi.org/10.2478/tjcp-2023-0008
2024
View OutputAffective experiments: card games, blind dates and dinner parties. In 'Affective Experimentation Anthology'
Hope, S., Timm Knudsen, B. (Ed.), Krogh , M. (Ed.), & Stage, C. (Ed.) (2022). Affective experiments: card games, blind dates and dinner parties. In 'Affective Experimentation Anthology'. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96272-2_11
2022
View OutputBook Review: Lure of the Social: Encounters with Contemporary Artists
Hope, S. (2022). Book Review: Lure of the Social: Encounters with Contemporary Artists. Cultural Sociology, 16(4), 566-568. https://doi.org/10.1177/17499755221083571
2022
View OutputWe thought we were going to change the world! Socially engaged art as cruel optimism. In 'The Failures of Public Art and Participation'
Hope, S., Cartiere, C. (Ed.), & Schrag, A. (Ed.) (2022). We thought we were going to change the world! Socially engaged art as cruel optimism. In 'The Failures of Public Art and Participation'. Routledge.
2022
View OutputArtist-researchers on the Margins: Communities of Practice Beyond the PhD
Hope, S., & Coleman, J. (2022). Artist-researchers on the Margins: Communities of Practice Beyond the PhD. The International Journal of Creative Media Research, (9). http://www.creativemediaresearch.org/
2022
View OutputDigital Cultural Politics: From Policy to practice. Cham/CH (Palgrave Macmillan) 2020, 226 Seiten
Hope, S., & Valtýsson, B. (2021). Digital Cultural Politics: From Policy to practice. Cham/CH (Palgrave Macmillan) 2020, 226 Seiten. Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy , 7(1), 187-191. https://doi.org/10.14361/zkmm-2021-0109
2021
View OutputStories from the Global Staffroom: Experiences of Caring and Uncaring Architectures at work with Effy Harle and Jos Boys
Hope, S., & Richards, J. (2021). Stories from the Global Staffroom: Experiences of Caring and Uncaring Architectures at work with Effy Harle and Jos Boys. Architecture and Culture, 9(2), 193-217 . Article 24. https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2021.1920217
2021
View OutputUnfinished Business
Hope, S. (2020). Unfinished Business: Performative Interviews as a Method for Expressing Failure in the Socially Engaged Art Job. Conjunctions, 7(2). https://doi.org/10.7146/tjcp.v7i2.119748
2020
View Output