Biography
Yosha Wijngaarden is assistant professor of Media and Creative Industries at the Media and Communication department. Driven by insights from sociology, geography and organisation studies, her research focuses on the intersection of the creative industries, social interaction and place. It specifically also includes the precariousness and inequality in earnings, innovation in the creative industries, and working and living in urban settings.
From 2013 to 2019, Yosha worked at the Media & Communication department as a PhD candidate and lecturer. Her PhD thesis "Places of co-working: Situating innovation in the creative industries", supervised by Erik Hitters and Susanne Janssen, was part of the NWO-funded research project Cultures of Innovation in the Creative Industries. Her dissertation received the 5th Boekman/NWO Dissertation Award (best doctoral thesis on arts, culture and society in The Netherlands and Flanders, 2018-2021) as well as the 2019 NeFCA Dissertation Award (best doctoral thesis in communication science in The Netherlands and Flanders). After finishing her PhD, Yosha was a postdoc and lecturer at ESHCC’s Arts and Culture Studies department. Between 2020 and 2022, she was assistant professor of Media Studies and Creative Industries at Radboud University.
Together with Ellen Loots (EUR) and Arjen van Witteloostuijn (VU), Yosha was involved in an Instituut Gak funded research project on the earning capacity and income position of the creative sector in The Netherlands. Currently, Yosha is, together with Helleke van den Braber (RU) and Kate Oakley (University of Glasgow), working on a project on cultural cooperatives and resilience in the cultural sector.
Yosha has taught extensively on all things creative industries, but also on various social science research methods (qualitative, quantitative, comparative), media theory and sociology.
Many years ago, she studied in Amsterdam and received her Bachelor’s degree in History in 2009 (cum laude), followed by a Master’s degree in Sociology and a Research Master’s degree in History in 2012.
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
- wijngaarden@eshcc.eur.nl
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Work
- Yosha Wijngaarden, Pawan V. Bhansing & Erik Hitters (2021) - Character trait, context or… create! Innovative practices among creative entrepreneurs - Industry and Innovation, 28 (8), 1077-1097 - doi: 10.1080/13662716.2021.1949964 - [link]
- Yosha Wijngaarden, Erik Hitters & Pawan Bhansing (2020) - Cultivating fertile learning grounds: Collegiality, tacit knowledge and innovation in creative co-working spaces - Geoforum, 109, 86-94 - doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.01.005 - [link]
- Yosha Wijngaarden & Ellen Loots (2021) - Crowdsurfen door crowdfunden.: Geven, ‘matchen’ en ondernemerschap in de Nederlandse popsector - Boekman. Tijdschrift voor Kunst, Cultuur en Beleid, (26), 19
- Pawan Bhansing, Erik Hitters & Yosha Wijngaarden (2018) - Passion Inspires: Motivations of creative entrepreneurs in creative business centres in the Netherlands - Journal of Entrepreneurship, 27 (1) - doi: 10.1177/0971355717738589 - [link]
- Yosha Wijngaarden (2019) - Spaces of co-working: Situating innovation in the creative industries - [link]
- Ellen Loots, Yosha Wijngaarden & Carolina Dalla Chiesa (2024) - Between a rock and a hard place: how cultural and creative entrepreneurs negotiate distinctiveness in grant acquisition (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Ellen Loots, Yosha Wijngaarden & Carolina Dalla Chiesa (2024) - Between a Rock and a Hard Place. How artists negotiate distinctiveness in grant proposals (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Ellen Loots, Carolina Dalla Chiesa & Yosha Wijngaarden (2024) - Mixing a healthy blend? Trends in collaborative funding and financing (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Ellen Loots, Kaja Piecyk & Yosha Wijngaarden (2023) - At the juncture of funding, policy, and technology: match-funding of arts and culture through crowdfunding platforms (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Yosha Wijngaarden (2023) - Basic Income, a panacea for all ills? How creative workers perceive participating in an experiment with basic income (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Professional - Yosha Wijngaarden, Ellen Loots & Wike Been (2022) - De arbeidsmarkt in culturele en creatieve sectoren in tijden van Covid-19: Trends en cijfers over de eerste periode (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional - Carolina Dalla Chiesa, Lisanne Brouwer, Yosha Wijngaarden & Ellen Loots (2022) - Crowdfunding for independent musicians (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Professional - Yosha Wijngaarden (2022) - Digital minds: on how to anticipate on the promises and speculations of Web3 (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional - Yosha Wijngaarden (2021) - Building innovative creative hubs (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Professional - Yosha Wijngaarden (2021) - Creative transformations: building innovative creative hubs (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Professional
- Yosha Wijngaarden (2022) - 5th Boekman Dissertation Award
- Yosha Wijngaarden (2021) - Netherlands Flanders Communication Association (NeFCA) Dissertation Award
Key Concepts in the Social Sciences
- Year Level
- BA-1, Pre-master, Pre-master, Pre-master, Pre-master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CM1013
The Future of the Creative Labour Market
- Year Level
- MA, MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CM4501
Sociology of Media and the Arts
- Level
- MA-1
- Year Level
- MA-1
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CS5002
Master Thesis
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CM5000
Master Thesis Project
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CM5050
Greatest Hits and Critics’ Picks
- Level
- Minor
- Year Level
- Minor
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CC9012
