Screen Industries Growth Network (SIGN)

Description

The Screen Industries Growth Network (SIGN) is a unique, business-facing initiative supporting the TV, film and games industries in Yorkshire and the Humber. SIGN aims to make this region the UK’s centre for digital creativity, and a model of diverse and inclusive activity. In order to do this, SIGN connects companies, support agencies and universities through a programme of training, business development, research and evaluation.

SIGN works collaboratively with higher education institutions and industry partners to generate new and valuable insights. Its research strengthens understanding of digital creativity and screen storytelling across interactive media, AI, film, TV, games and other digital screen-based technologies. The network wants to enhance the region’s competitiveness, and secure the future of screen-related industries.

Members are committed to undertaking research that will make a significant positive impact on culture and society. By identifying and analysing challenges, future requirements and best practice, they aim to provide evidence-based solutions.

SIGN also identifies new opportunities across skills, training, talent development, business support, diversity and inclusion. Striving to be at the forefront of industry knowledge and academic understanding, the network's research involves horizon scanning for new technologies, production models, modes of storytelling and routes to market, in order to facilitate new ideas for growth and innovation.

Research themes include:

• understanding the scale of equality, diversity and inclusion in education, the screen industries and content creation;
• identifying opportunities for widening equality, diversity and inclusion;
• understanding digital creativity and storytelling, across interactive and immersive media, artificial intelligence (AI), film, TV, games
• horizon-scanning for new technologies, production models, workflows and markets;
• developing strategies for business innovation, routes to market, growth, job creation, and future finance models;
• investigating the effectiveness of Creative Industries policy;
• understanding how the audiences of the future will engage with screen content.

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2020

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University affiliation(s)

University of York
York

Partner Infrastructures

Digital Creativity Labs

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York

Partner Universities

Leeds Beckett University

Leeds Trinity University

University of Bradford

University of Huddersfield

University of Hull

University of Sheffield

York St John University