Insights
UK's Creative Industries through our reports, insights and research
Welcome to our Insights page where you can discover the latest research from the CoSTAR Network's UK-wide team of world-class researchers, academics and experts.
Explore our reports, papers and articles shaping the future of the UK's creative industries, covering a wide range of perspectives from responses to government sustainability policy to proposals on how to build a fair AI copyright framework.
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Welcome to the CoSTAR Foresight Lab’s screen sector digest, summarising events and developments in AI each quarter.
Posted: 23 April 2026Welcome to the CoSTAR Foresight Lab’s new screen sector digest, summarising events and developments in AI each quarter.
Posted: 26 February 2026
This report from the CoSTAR Foresight Lab explores how artificial intelligence is impacting the Screen Sector across different international contexts.
Posted: 20 February 2026
CoSTAR National Lab's Prototyping Team share a blog about their project looking at the role that audiovisual Generative AI can play in enhancing human creativity in an ethical way using converged media production
Posted: 31 July 2025
This report represents, to the best of our knowledge, the first UK-wide exploration of the overall impact of generative artificial intelligence (AI) on the full breadth of the UK’s screen sector.
Posted: 09 June 2025
This report provides a benchmark for the state of play of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) investment into XR technologies for screen, performance and digital entertainment at the close of 2024.
Posted: 28 May 2025
This report considers the challenges in developing a publicly available, machine-readable approach to copyright consent that protects the interests of copyright holders whilst allowing AI companies to legally access data. It is published by CoSTAR National Lab with the support of DECaDE and Sheridans.
Posted: 20 May 2025
This policy briefing highlights the policy implications of the Foresight Lab’s report ‘Sustainability Impacts of Convergent Technologies in the UK Creative Industries’.
Posted: 03 April 2025
Arup, in partnership with the CoSTAR Foresight Lab, has investigated how the Creative Industries landscape will be reshaped by convergent technologies in the coming years, with a particular focus on how these technologies will require businesses to rethink and redefine their sustainability strategies.
Posted: 02 April 2025
This policy briefing sets out the CoSTAR Network’s joint response to the UK Government’s Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Consultation (2025), outlining the Network’s approach and recommendations.
Posted: 12 March 2025
This publication in the Foresight series explores the future of convergent media production, shifting focus from technological possibility to lived experience and asking how creative practitioners are responding to rapid transformation in their everyday work.
Posted: 10 February 2025