Research Associate, Intercultural Research Centre (IRC), Heriot-Watt University

2016 - 2019
Research Associate, Intercultural Research Centre (IRC), Heriot-Watt University

Developing a creative ethnological practice and engaging with issues in cultural policy, human ecology, intangible cultural heritage (ICH), traditional music and cultural sustainability.

This work has fed into a co-written book chapter as part of the Horizon 2020 CoHERE European Heritages project, an article for a European anthropology journal and several public talks, conferences and workshops. Events included the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics conference ‘Expressing the Earth’ in Argyll in partnership with UHI (2017), ‘Scotland at a Crossroads’ conference at Heriot-Watt University (2019), SHOORMAL - ‘Shifting Sands in the Creative Economy’ organised by the Centre for Rural Creativity in Shetland (2019) and the AHRC’s ‘Being Human’ Festival in Edinburgh (2019).

The Intercultural Research Centre (IRC) addresses key intercultural issues arising from the changing global context. It makes original contributions to the study of interculturality with a particular focus on comparative work emphasising the applied dimensions of culture, defined broadly in anthropological terms.