Dr Whiting is a Lecturer in Creative Industries at the University of South Australia. His research is primarily focused on issues of capital, labour, and value as they relate to the creative industries and the cultural economy more broadly. Sam’s published work explores issues of access, identity, gender, heritage, live music, cultural policy, and music scenes through the interdisciplinary lens of cultural studies, sociology, and popular music studies. His previous research has included work with the SA Music Development Office, National Live Music Office, City of Melbourne, Monash University, RMIT University, and the University of Tasmania, and his recently completed monograph Small Venues: Precarity, Vibrancy and Live Music will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2023.

Publications  

• Whiting, S (1 Dec 2022) ‘A Basic Income for Artists, or How to Build an Artist-led Economy’, ABI Lab News, https://fass-comms.sydney.edu.au/link/id/zzzz6387de7b02017156Pzzzz61bbdd9d0d6a6843/page.html

• Whiting, S (28 Sept 2022) ‘Time we paid our tab to support the live music industry’, The Age, https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/time-we-paid-our-tab-to-support-the-live-music-industry-20220928-p5bljl.html.

• Whiting, S. (2022). Basic Income, Cultural Labour, and the Creative Arts: Precedents and Current Experiments paper presented at the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) 2022 congress, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, September 26-28. Published in conference proceedings: https://basicincome.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Whiting-BIEN-2022.pdf