Dr Zuleika Beaven joined Middlesex University Music Department in 2014, bringing more than two decades of experience in the creative industries. Previously, she was a senior lecturer in Arts Management at the Arts University Bournemouth, taught on the MA in Cultural Management at the University of Winchester and was a researcher in the Cultural Management Applied Research Group at the University of Greenwich. Her arts management experience ranges across a variety of artforms and both larger organisations such as the music venue Blackheath Halls and many years as a freelancer. This included events and projects with the Museum of London, Barbican, Common Ground and BBC Radio 4.
Drawing on her research focus of work in the music business, Zuleika's PhD was a longitudinal study of musician start-ups. She also has an interest in the effects of technology on the industry and is carrying out a Research Council-funded case study of a Kickstarter-supported album recording and release.
Zuleika teaches on the BA Music Business & Arts Management and MA Arts Management.
Qualifications
PhD on musician entrepreneurship. This was a real-time study with music graduates as they set up music-related ventures including bands and ensembles. The study design allowed a detailed examination of the complexity of the start-up process for musician-entrepreneurs and an observation of the increasingly synergetic relationship between creative and entrepreneurial identities.
PGCHE and PCES Higher Education-specific teaching qualifications. Zuleika is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and trained as an adult dyslexia tutor at Southampton University.
MA by Research in Creative Industries Management. Awarded for an extended study of work-orientation in the music business.
BA (Hons) in Arts Management. Received from the University of Greenwich, where Zuleika studied as a mature student.
Teaching on the BA Music Business and Arts Management and MA Arts Management.
Teaching interests
Module Leadership
Selected Refereed Journal Articles
Selected Conference Papers (Refereed)
Selected Book Chapters
Dines, Mike and Shah, Haroun N. and Daykin, Joanna and Beaven, Zuleika and Evans, François (2022) Post-graduate arts students meet the artists of Notting Hill Carnival; an ongoing programme by Middlesex University London to develop and promote carnival arts. The pioneering work of Adela Ruth Tompsett. International Journal of Carnival Arts , 5 . pp. 83-96. ISSN 2752-342X
Beaven, Zuleika and O'Dair, Marcus and Osborne, Richard , eds. (2018) Mute records: artists, business, history. Bloomsbury Academic, New York and London. ISBN 9781501340604
Osborne, Richard (2018) Moby, Minstrelsy and Melville. In: Mute Records: Artists, business, history. Beaven, Zuleika and O'Dair, Marcus and Osborne, Richard , eds. Bloomsbury Academic, New York and London, pp. 169-182. ISBN 9781501340604
Osborne, Richard and Beaven, Zuleika (2018) Introduction: Mute Records. In: Mute Records: Artists, business, history. Beaven, Zuleika and O'Dair, Marcus and Osborne, Richard , eds. Bloomsbury Academic, New York and London, pp. 1-14. ISBN 9781501340604
O'Dair, Marcus and Beaven, Zuleika (2017) Just go and do It: A Blockchain technology "Live Project" for nascent music entrepreneurs. In: Punk Pedagogies: Music, Culture and Learning. Smith, Gareth Dylan and Dines, Mike and Parkinson, Tom , eds. Routledge, London, pp. 73-90. ISBN 1138279889
Research Councils UK New Economic Models in the Digital Economy (NEMODE) case study on a Kickstarter-supported album release, exploring critical issues for musicians of crowdfunding independent releases
TQEH (2007) Project to embed creative entrepreneurship teaching in arts curricula
Professional Membership
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
