Books
Patel, K. (2020).听Rowman & Littlefield.
Naudin, A. and Patel, K. Eds. (2021)听.听Rowman & Littlefield.
Journal articles
Ashton, D. & Patel, K. (2024) 鈥楶eople don鈥檛 buy art, they buy artists鈥: Robot artists 鈥 work, identity and expertise. Convergence.
Patel, K. (2022) 鈥業 want to be judged on my work, I don鈥檛 want to be judged as a person鈥: Inequality, expertise and cultural value in UK craft. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 25(6), 1556鈥1571.
Patel, K. (2022) In conversation with Deirdre Figueiredo MBE, Director of Craftspace. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 25(6), 1652鈥1664.
Patel, K. and Dudrah, R. (2022) Special Issue Introduction: Craft Economies and Inequalities. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 25(6), 1547-1548.
Patel, K. (2020) Race and Craft in the Covid Spotlight. Soundings, 75 (Summer 2020), 24-27.
Naudin, A. and Patel, K. (2019)听.听European Journal of Cultural Studies,听22(5-6), 511-527.
Book chapters
Patel, K. (2020)听 in Craft. In S. Taylor and S. Luckman, eds.听Pathways Into Creative Working Lives.听Palgrave Macmillan.
Ashton, D. and Patel, K (2020). Girls鈥 Bedroom Cultures. In K. Ross, eds.听The International Encyclopaedia of Gender, Media and Communication.听John Wiley & Sons. [].
Ashton, D. and Patel, K. (2018) Vlogging Careers: Everyday Expertise, Collaboration and Authenticity. In S. Taylor and S. Luckman, eds.听The 鈥楴ew Normal鈥 of Working Lives: Critical Studies in Contemporary Work and Employment. Palgrave Macmillan, 147-170.
Patel, K. (2017) Expertise and Collaboration: Cultural Workers Performance on Social Media in J. Graham and A. Gandini (eds)听Collaborative Production in the Creative Industries. University of Westminster Press, 157-176.
Reports
Patel, K. (2021)听.听Crafts Council UK.
Patel, K. (2021)听Supporting Diversity and Expertise Development in the Contemporary Craft Economy: Working Paper 2. Crafts Council UK.
Patel, K. (2020)听Supporting Diversity and Expertise Development in the Contemporary Craft Economy: Working Paper 1.听Crafts Council UK.
Patel, K. (2019)听Supporting Diversity in Craft Practice through Digital Technology Skills Development.听Crafts Council UK.
Patel, K. and Naudin, A. (2018)听.
Selected talks and conference presentations
2023:
Craft and connecting knowledge and practice. Public lecture for Norwegian Crafts, National Museum Oslo, 8 November 2023
2022:
Inequalities, community and care: the Craft Expertise project. Public Lecture for the Glasgow School of Art, 20 October 2022.
Making together: How socially engaged craft organisations adapted to the COVID-19 crisis. Presented at , 22 September 2022
. Participant in panel with Sarah Brouillette, Craig Wilkins, Michael Corris and Dylan Miner. University of the Arts London, 29 March 2022.
2021:
. Presented at Media and Gender Research Group seminar series, 15 December 2021.
Inequalities and cultural value in UK craft. Presented at听RSA Bath What Next? Series (online), 24 May 2021
QMUL Network: A conversation on sustaining craft practice in the digital era, with Katja May, Suzanna Petot, Yemi Awosile and Nick Bryan-Kinns, 12 April 2021 [].
Care and resistance: alternative pathways in UK craft. Presented at The Cultural and Creative Industries: Pathways Beyond Economic Growth, King鈥檚 College London (online), 24 February 2021 []
2020:
Crafts Council open forum on tackling racism and inequality in craft, with Rose Sinclair, Jay Blades and Amanda Parker, 25 June 2020 [].
鈥淭hey think I don鈥檛 know anything鈥: Race, gender and perceptions of expertise in crafts. Presented at the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Seminar series, hosted by Nesta and King鈥檚 College London, 8 June 2020. [] [] [].
2019:
鈥楽afe鈥 spaces? Challenges for women makers of colour online. Presented at CAMEo Leicester, 6 September 2019. []
The experiences of women craft makers of colour. Presented at Work Inequalities and Lifecourse research seminar series, Southampton Solent University, 27 March 2019.