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Welcome from the Director Welcome to the 2014 update from the Creative Futures Institute. This is an exciting time for UWS, as we form a new School of Media, Culture and Society, and embark on an ambitious University-‐‑wide strategic plan that seeks to significantly increase research activity and our international reach. In this edition you will find information about the range of our work throughout 2014. We have contributed to the debate about the future of Scotland and the momentous events around the Referendum through Prof. John Robertson’s widely disseminated analysis of broadcast media outputs, through Dr Gerry Hassan’s series of public events on Cultures of Independence, and through practice-‐‑based work in theatre, film, literature and the visual arts, including Dr David Overend’s production of Wallace at the Arches, and our collaboration with Trigger, How to Choose?. Our partnerships with CCA Glasgow, and with the UWS Creative Media Academy, Film City Glasgow, continue to yield really exciting opportunities for collaborative working, including a symposium series on

Curating Europe’s Futures involving Prof. Katarzyna Kosmala, and a major exhibition and seminar series planned for 2015 and 2016. Scottish culture and the multiple representations of identity in contemporary Scotland also continues to be a focus, with Eleanor Yule and Dr David Manderson’s book on Scottish Miserablism receiving widespread attention, as well the ongoing work of the Scottish Centre for Island Studies, led by Dr Kathryn Burnett. A team of researchers led by Prof. Gayle McPherson and Prof. David McGillivray have also been working with the Commonwealth Games teams on culture, parasport and the wider impact of this summer’s events in Glasgow and beyond. And extending outwards beyond Scotland, our researchers’ work in participatory and contemporary arts, media/arts practice and cultural studies continue to make connections across the world -‐‑ including projects funded by the AHRC’s Connected Communities programme, exchanges with the IDEEA Lab, Tokyo Metropolitan University, and collaboration with the University of the Arctic’s Arctic Sustainable Art and Design Network. We hope you enjoy reading this newsletter, and as ever, do please keep in touch. Graham Jeffery

Contents Books & Journals In Focus: Peter Snowdon Journal Articles Book Chapters In Focus: John Robertson Practice Reports In Focus: LSA Conference In Focus: David Manderson & Eleanor Yule Media Highlights Impact: Game Changer Awards In Focus: European Connections In Focus: IDEEA Lab Conference Presentations In Focus: Holly Tessler In Focus: How to Choose Arrivals and Departures Grants Awarded PhD Students Our Creative Future

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Research Outputs

Books & Journals Collins, K, Kapralos, B & Tessler, H. (eds.) (2014) The Oxford Handbook of Interactive Audio. Oxford University Press. Hassan, G. (2014) Caledonian Dreaming: the quest for a different Scotland. Luath Press. Kosmala, K. (ed.) (2014) Sexing the Border: Gender, Art and New Media in Central and Eastern Europe. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Kosmala, K. & Kluszczynski, R. (eds.) (2014) Art Inquiry: ‘Crossing Borders, Imagining Europe, Representing Periphery’, Issue 15, Lodzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe (Journal). Manderson, D & Yule, E. (2014) The Glass Half Full: Moving Beyond Scottish Miserablism. Luath Press.

FOCUS: Peter Snowdon We welcome Peter Snowdon as Lecturer in Filmmaking. Peter is an award-‐‑winning documentarian whose body of work – which has developed from the purely political to the experimental and avant-‐‑garde – has screened widely on the international festival circuit. He has travelled and worked around the world, in particular in the Palestinian territories, where a number of his films were shot, and India, where he was a consultant for the International Society for Ecology and Culture. Since making his first short doc in 2006 Peter has directed a further ten films. His recent debut feature, The Uprising (2013, Third Films/Rien à voir), gained critical acclaim, screening at over fifteen international film festivals and premiering as part of Documentary Fortnight at MoMA, NYC. The documentary is a multi-‐‑camera, first-‐‑person account of the Arab revolutions. Composed entirely of over 100 videos made by citizens and long-‐‑term residents of Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, Syria and Yemen, it uses original footage not to recount the actual chronology of events or analyse their causes, but to create an imaginary pan-‐‑Arab uprising that exists (for the moment) only on the screen. In this respect, it challenges conventions of factual and fictional filmmaking. Peter notes: “if this is a documentary, it is not documenting an actual past, but a possible future – one of many possible futures”.

Journal Articles Clark, S. (2014) ‘The Curator’s Room’. Terrain.org: a journal of the natural and built environments. Clark, S. (2014) 'Things Unseen: Samantha Clark interviews Anne Bevan'. Antennae: the journal of nature in visual culture. 28. Cox, T. McGillivray, D. & McPherson, G. (2014) ‘Making sense of multiplicity: evaluating Scotland’s Cultural Olympiad’. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events. 6 (3). p.201-‐‑214. Kosmala, K. (2014) ‘Withering into the Past: Deconstructing a Myth of the Male Artist’. The International Journal of New Media, Technology and the Arts. 7 (4). p.15-‐‑24. Kosmala, K. (2014) ‘Constructed Stories of (Non)Belonging to Europe: Performative Videos of Marina Grzinic and Aina Smid’. Art Inquiry 15. p.65-‐‑88. McGillivray, D. (2014) ‘Digital cultures, acceleration and mega sporting event narratives’. Leisure Studies. 33 (1). p. 96-‐‑ 109. Rich, E & Miah, A. (2014) ‘Understanding Digital Health as Public Pedagogy: A Critical Framework’. Societies. 49 (2). p. 296-‐‑315.

Overend, D. (2014) ‘Dramaturgies of mobility: on the road with Rob Drummond’s Bullet Catch. Studies in Theatre and Performance. 35 (1). Shand, R. (2014) ‘The Wick Society’s Intervention into Industrial Heritage: Remaking Local Films for Future Historians’. International Journal of Scottish Theatre and Screen. 7 (1). p. 70-‐‑97.

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Book Chapters Burnett, K.A. & Danson, M. (2014). ‘Enterprise and Entrepreneurship on Islands’. In Henry, C. & Mcelwee, G. (eds.) Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship Research Volume 4 -‐‑ Exploring Rural Enterprise: New Perspectives on Research. Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing. Higgins, N. (2014) ‘Other Screens, Other Selves’. In National Collective (eds.) Inspired by Independence. Edinburgh: Word Power Books. McGillivray, D. & McPherson, G. (2014). ‘Scotland in 2025: A Thriving or Striving Events Nation?’. In Yeoman, I et al. (eds.) The Future of Events and Festivals. Abingdon: Routledge. Miah, A. (2014) ‘The CyberSport Nexus’. In Billings, A. & Hardin, M. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Sport and New Media. Oxon & New York: Routledge. Miah, A. (2014) Tweeting the Olympic Games. In Girginov, V. The Routledge Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games, Volume 2. Oxon: Routledge.

FOCUS: John Robertson

John Robertson, Professor in Media Politics, has seen his public profile rise substantially during the recent Scottish referendum on independence. He was the lead researcher on a project that transcribed and coded the news coverage of the campaign from September 2012 to September 2013. His interim findings, Fairness in the First Year?, a report made available on the Creative Futures Institute website in February, analysed approximately 730 hours of evening news coverage of the referendum campaign broadcast on BBC One, Reporting Scotland, ITV and STV.

The report detailed that stories presenting the Yes campaign in a negative light outnumbered those that were more favourable by a factor of two to one. As a result, Professor Robertson gave evidence to the Education & Culture Committee in the Scottish Parliament the following month. These findings provoked a flurry of reaction from on-‐‑line bloggers on sites such as Independence Live. The journalist Ian Fraser posted links to the research on his website and Professor Robertson has also discussed the findings in-‐‑depth, being interviewed by Michael Greenwell for his podcast. A second report entitled Good Morning Scotland? Fairness in Reporting the Scottish Referendum Debate followed in April 2014, which charted the coverage of both campaigns on Scotland’s flagship new radio programme. John has now become a regular contributor to international television news channels, including Al-‐‑ Arabiya, Al-‐‑Jazeera, Canada TV News, China Central TV, Euskal Telebista, 5-‐‑TV Russia, Russia Today. A short film on John’s research, The Bigger the Lie went viral in September when Frankie Boyle and Irvine Welsh retweeted a link to the video in the days running up September the 18th. More recently, an extended interview reflecting on media bias and philosophy was broadcast to the YouTube channel ReferendumTV.

Image: Cameron King, adapted. Flickr

Practice Clifford, A. (2014) Turbulence, FILE 2014 SP: Video Art, Centro Cultural FIESP, Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Digital Art) Higgins, N. (2014) Portrait of an Artist, UWS/Honeycomb. (Film: Executive Producer) Jeffery, G. and Kelly, H. (2014) Remaking Society: Communities on the Edge. MECCSA Conference, Bournemouth University. (Video). McGillivray, D., McPherson, G., Jones, J. & McCandlish, A. (2014) Digital Commonwealth (Website). Overend, D. (2014) CauseWay by Victoria Bianchi (National Trust for Scotland,), Robert Burns Museum. (Drama: director) Overend, D. (2014). Wallace by Rob Drummond, The Arches and National Theatre. (Drama: co-‐‑director) Ronan, J. (2014) Leave Your Shoes at the Door, BloodWater Theatre, CCA. (Drama) Tucker, P. (2014) Celebrity Antiques Road Show, BBC Two. (Television: producer)

Scott, J. (2014) Jo Mango: Transformuration. Olive Grove Records. (Music Album) Scott, D. (2014) The Pearlfishers: Open Up Your Colouring Book. Marina Records (Music Album). Snowdon, P. (2014) The Uprising. Third Films/Rien à voir. (Film).

Digital Commonwealth Website. www.digitalcommonwealth.co.uk

Reports Jeffery, G., Schaefer, K. and Wakeford, T. (2014) Connected Communities: Remaking Society Summary Report. Swindon: Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Kelly, C. and Jeffery, G. (2014) JUMP CUT Summer Production Company: Final Evaluation Report. Paisley: CFI.

Robertson, J. (2014) ‘Fairness in the First Year?’: Interim Report. Ayr: CFI.

Robertson, J. (2014) Good Morning Scotland? Fairness in Reporting the Scottish Referendum Debate, Ayr: CFI.

FOCUS: LSA Conference In July 2014, UWS hosted the 39th Annual Leisure Studies Association Conference on our Paisley Campus. Headed up by Prof. Gayle McPherson, the conference attracted over one hundred delegates with half of the delegation coming from overseas. Themed under the heading ‘Sports, Festivity and Digital Cultures’ the programme offered a range of international case studies including; social-‐‑recreational clubs in Brazil, sport and national identity in Slovakia, folk festivals in Australia, and sports and events curricula in Germany. Prof. David McGillivray delivered a keynote as his Inaugural Lecture, ‘Accelerated Leisure in a Digital Age: Transformations & Tribulations’, which explored the changing nature of those leisure cultures intensified by the presence of a digitally-‐‑mediated world. Following the conference, there will be a Special Issue of the Annals of Leisure Research on Sport and Cultural Events: ‘Contested Legacies’ (2015) and an edited collection entitled Digital Leisure Cultures: Critical Perspectives.

FOCUS: David Manderson & Eleanor Yule

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David Manderson and Eleanor Yule have made a quite an impact with their new co-‐‑authored book The Glass Half Full: Moving Beyond Scottish Miserablism. Focusing on the tendency of Scottish authors and filmmakers to dwell on the dark side of life, their study has been hotly debated on television, at book festivals and conferences. Published this year by Luath Press, it has caught the cultural zeitgeist by being both a history of film and television, while at the same time offering itself as a self-‐‑help book for writers dealing with subject matter set in Scotland. In June, Eleanor appeared on STV’s Scotland Tonight, where she was interviewed by presenter John MacKay, along with the Scotland on Sunday film critic Siobhan Synnot. She discussed her chapters on the tendency of films made in Scotland by filmmakers such as Lynne Ramsay, Bill Douglas and Peter Mullan to exhibit a peculiarly pessimistic view of life. The book was also discussed by the literary critic Stuart Kelly in review published in The Scotsman, which highlighted the connections that Scottish miserablism might have with novels from other nations. David Manderson’s chapters focus on the literary history of Scotland, in particular the influence of William McLlvanney, James Kelman and Irvine Welsh. The authors have taken their argument on tour in a series of illustrated lectures in Paisley, Glasgow, Edinburgh and in Orkney, where extracts from films are shown, as well as passages from novel read out, in order to demonstrate how such works confirm regressive tropes about Scottish identity. They have also made appearances at the Wigtown Book Festival and at academic conferences in Edinburgh and Berlin.

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Media Highlights ‘BBC bias and the Scots referendum’ Open Democracy, 21st February 2014. ‘Media Analyst Condemns BBC Scotland’, BBC Open Democracy, 11th March 2014. ‘Scottish Miserablism'ʹ, Scotland Tonight, 13th May 2014. 'ʹThe Glass Half Full: Moving Beyond Scottish Miserablism'ʹ, June, The Scotsman [review by Stuart Kelly], 13th July 2014. ‘London Media and Referendum’ Financial Times, 9th September 2014. ‘Westminster Promises to Scotland’, Canada TV, 20th September 2014. ‘After the Scottish Referendum’, 5-‐‑TV Russia, Friday, 25th September 2014. ‘UK Government Plans for Social Media, Broadcast Ban Contradict Democratic Values’, RIA Novosti/Russia Today 3rd October 2014.

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IMPACT: Gold medal at the Game Changer Awards This spring the Creative Futures Institute was awarded a gold medal for research impact at the Game Changer Awards 2014. Prof. Gayle McPherson and Prof. David McGillivray took home the first place gong for their project, Leveraging Parasports Events for Sustainable Community Participation. The project is an international collaboration between UWS and the University of Western Ontario. It is the first research study that has taken a comparative approach to large scale sporting events. Focusing on two different types of events: integrated events where able bodied athletes and athletes with a disability compete alongside one another (2014 Commonwealth Games, Glasgow) and non-‐‑integrated events that have a distinct event for athletes with a disability separated by time, but occurring in the same or similar location (2015 Pan/ParapanAmerican Games, Toronto), the project considers how the hosting of integrated or non-‐‑ integrated sports events for people with a disability are being used to create opportunities for community participation and to influence community attitudes towards disability.

Image: Cameron King, adapted, Flickr.

The research team is currently preparing for the second phase of the project at the Pan/ParapanAmerican Games in Toronto next summer. The Game Changer Awards were organised by Colleges Scotland and Universities Scotland, and backed by Legacy 2014 and the Scottish Funding Council. “We are delighted to have won a gold medal in the Research Impact category of the Game Changer Awards. Our project focuses on how the catalyst effect of the Games can be used to leverage social change” -‐‑ Prof Gayle McPherson, principal investigator on the project.

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The second Gdansk Shipyard Summer School, led by doctoral candidate Roman Sebastyanski, saw Masters students from UWS collaborating with architecture students and local experts from the Gdansk Academy of Fine Art, exploring the actual and possible futures of the politically, historically and culturally charged 'ʹregeneration zone'ʹ of the Gdansk Shipyard. Prof. Katarzyna Kosmala and Graham Jeffery are leading an international exchange between networks of artists, activists and academics involved in the debate about the future of Govan, Glasgow, with their counterparts in Gdansk. Roman'ʹs PhD project is creating an interactive platform for public engagement with the potential futures of the Shipyard. Other researchers within the Institute are feeding into the debate about European urban futures, particularly through links with our Cultural Planning CPD programme, led by Prof. Gayle McPherson, Graham Jeffery and Liz Gardiner. Two CFI doctoral candidates based at Stuttgart Media University and supervised through collaboration are addressing cultural and economic dimensions of urban policy. Mirjam Muller'ʹs project examines outreach, marketing and community engagement strategies in three European museums of contemporary art. Andrea Braeuning'ʹs PhD examines the 'ʹSmart City as a Customer'ʹ, drawing on her experience as a senior futures analyst within Robert Bosch GmBH. Earlier this year the Institute hosted a delegation from Dalarna province, Sweden, to share participatory planning approaches from Glasgow, drawing on the Cultural Planning CPD course and Graham Jeffery'ʹs AHRC funded project, Remaking Society. CFI academics have also been very active within other European networks, including Prof. Katarzyna Kosmala gaining membership of the European Cultural Parliament, Prof. Gayle McPherson'ʹs appointment as a visiting Professor at the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, Berlin, and a workshop series with curatorial network Mother Tongue, Variant, Glasgow School of Art and CCA Glasgow on Curating Europes’ Futures. Collaborative work continues with the Arctic Sustainable Art and Design Network at the University of Lapland, an Erasmus+ project in creative industries led by the University of Linkoping, Sweden, and preparations to host a major international conference in computation, communication and aesthetics, xcoax.org, convened by Dr Alison Clifford, at CCA Glasgow in Summer 2015.

Image: Andrzej Karmasz, Celebrate, 2013. Video still. Courtesy of the artist.

Sexing the Border:

Gender, Art and New Media in Central and Eastern Europe

Prof. Katarzyna Kosmala'ʹs new edited book Sexing the Border (CSP, 2014) is a timely intervention in both critical discourses on video and new media art, as well as an examination of gender in post-‐‑ Socialist contexts. The book explores how encounters between art and technology have been implicated in the representation and analysis of gender, critically reflecting current debates and politics across the region and Europe. Offering a diversity of analytical contexts, it addresses interwoven histories across post-‐‑Socialist Europe and engages the paradigms of art practice and the visual cultures such histories uphold. Contributors have given a broad interpretation to the questions of video, media and performance, as well as to mediation in relation to art and gender, reflecting on a wide range of subjects, from the curatorial role to artistic practice, cross-‐‑cultural collaboration, co-‐‑ production, democracy and representation, and impasses in securing streamlined identities.

FOCUS: IDEEA Lab Workshops/Ex

In November the Creative Futures Institute welcomed Prof. Kumiko Kushiyama and her colleagues from Tokyo Metropolitan University’s IDEEA Lab to the University of the West of Scotland, where they led a series of demonstration workshops in making interactive “Device Art”. The workshops were accompanied by the IDEEA Lab’s multisensory art exhibition at Glasgow School of Art’s Digital Design Studio at the Hub, Pacific Quay. The exhibition featured internationally awarded works such as Freqtric, Gocen, PocoPoco, Alphabet Sequencer, NAKANISYNTH and LuminouStep. The project, which originated from connections made during fieldwork by CFI doctoral candidate Emilia Sosnowska, was supported by the DAIWA Anglo-‐‑Japanese Foundation.

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Conference Presentations Into the New Symposium, Glasgow, Jan 2014 MECCSA conference, Bournemouth University, Jan 2014 Impact of Events and Tourism symposium, Sweden, March 2014 Scottish Association of Writers'ʹ Annual Conference, Cumbernauld, March 2014 Theatre and the Nomadic Subject: Mobile Train Conference, Helsinki/Rovaniemi, Finland, April 2014 Screen Studies Conference, University of Glasgow, June 2014 Great Writing Annual Conference, Imperial College London, June 2014 World Congress of Scottish Literatures, Glasgow University, June 2014 Bread Loaf Environmental Writer'ʹs Conference, Middlebury College, Vermont USA, June 2014

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Participation and Engagement in the Arts, University of Utrecht, June 2014 iDocQ2014, University of Glasgow, June 2014 British Sociological Association Postgraduate Conference, Glasgow Caledonian University, June 2014 Film-‐‑Philosophy Conference, Glasgow University, July 2014 Leisure Studies Association conference, UWS, July 2014 Theatre and Performance Research Association conference, Royal Holloway, London, September 2014 European Association of Sport Management conference, Coventry University, September 2014 AHRC Connected Communities Creative Citizens conference, RCA, London, September 2014 Becoming Scotland, QMU, Edinburgh, Sept 2014 IJADE/NSEAD research conference, Tate Liverpool, Oct 2014 On the Image Freie Universitat Berlin, Oct 2014 ELIA Congress, Glasgow, November 2014 Institute of Small Business & Entrepreneurship conference, Manchester, November 2014

FOCUS: Holly Tessler Dr Holly Tessler, Senior Lecturer in Commercial Music, has recently published a pioneering new textbook exploring the new field of interactive audio. As one of the co-‐‑editors of The Oxford Handbook of Interactive Audio, she has been jointly responsible for bringing this ambitious project to fruition. This work represents a survey of this emerging and increasingly diverse topic, running over six-‐‑hundred pages in length. The Oxford Handbook of Interactive Audio highlights the fast changing technological developments that are reshaping the audio landscape and is the first book of its kind on this subject. Previously, the Oxford Handbooks in Music series highlighted such topics as music education, sound studies and music revivals. Now this investigation of interactive audio includes reflections on a wide array of media; from popular music, films, gaming, toys, human-‐‑ computer interaction and digital art. The collection focuses on the two-‐‑way process which is increasingly evident in many people’s relationship with media today. These consumers are no longer only listeners, but often creators and/or producers as well. The collection is a Image: Rodrigo Carvalho, FlickR

diverse range of scholarly methodologies and industry specific debates. The Oxford Handbook of Interactive Audio includes thirty-‐‑three chapters by the leading practitioners and academics from around the world, who are based in Canada, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United States, and the UK.

FOCUS: How to Choose? When the referendum was just around the corner, you probably knew which way you’re going to go. But HOW did you choose? And what influenced you? Theatre makers Gary McNair and Davey Anderson dug a little deeper into the question of how we choose. Can we ever know what the right decision is? They spun us through an audio journey set in a radio station inside your mind – tales and excerpts, from propaganda to a pot luck gamble. Tour dates during September included venues in Ayr, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling and Tobermory. The podcast is now available on the SoundCloud website. Produced by Trigger in partnership with the Creative Futures Institute, in association with the University of Glasgow. The project was supported by Creative Scotland.

Arrivals and Departures In October, we bid farewell to Prof. Andy Miah who has taken up a new post as Professor of Science Communication and Digital Media in the School of Environment and Life Sciences at the University of Salford. Dr Lesley-‐‑Ann Dickson joins the Creative Futures Institute as Research Assistant. Lesley-‐‑Ann recently completed a collaborative doctorate in the School of Culture and Creative Arts at the University of Glasgow. Her research explored exhibition practice and audience reception at film festivals, using Glasgow Film Festival as case study. Her background is in book publishing and she continues to run her own independent press. Dr Ryan Shand takes on the role as Research Assistant in the Creative Futures Institute. Previously, Ryan worked on the AHRC funded projects 'ʹChildren and Amateur Media in Scotland'ʹ (University of Glasgow, 2010-‐‑14) and 'ʹMapping the City in Film: A Geohistorical Analysis'ʹ (University of Liverpool, 2008-‐‑10). He completed his PhD, which was titled Amateur Cinema: History, Theory, and Genre (1930-‐‑80), in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow in 2007. Documentary filmmaker Peter Snowdon joins the School of Media, Culture and Society as Lecturer in Filmmaking. .

Grants Awarded A Caged Bird Dreams of Clouds. West Lothian Council: £2,389. (Dr Jo Collinson-Scott). Artist Development Residency. Timespan Visual Arts: £3,000. (Samantha Clark). Challenging Elites: rethinking disconnection and recovering urban space. Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC): £29,090. (Graham Jeffery, with Goldsmiths & Birkbeck, University of London; University of Sussex; University of Bristol). Co-production legacy: what is the role of artists within Connected Communities projects? Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC): £2,000. (Graham Jeffery, with University of Sheffield and Manchester Metropolitan University). Creative Industries Global Network. ERASMUS+ CIGN EACEA Lifelong Learning Programme: £45,250. (Robert Sutter, with University of Linkoping, Ryerson University and HdM Stuttgart). Future City Demonstration Project. Glasgow City Council: £20,000. (Prof. David McGillivray) Honeycomb: Creative Works. Interreg IVA EU: £146,747. (Prof. Nick Higgins, with Creative Skillset Scotland, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, and University of Ulster).

Leveraging Parasport Events for Sustainable Community Participation. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grants: £5624. (Prof. Gayle McPherson, with Western University, Ontario, Canada). Pits, Ponies, People: Traditions of Storytelling through Song. Heritage Lottery Fund: £7,500. (David Scott). Regeneration and Waterfront Heritage Zones in Northern Europe. Royal Society of Edinburgh Arts and Humanities Research Networks Scheme: £19,965. (Prof. Katarzyna Kosmala) Research Project for Newsnet Scotland. Newsnet Scotland: £ 6,000. (Prof. John Robertson). Sense the sound of the future. Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation: £3,000. (Prof. Katarzyna Kosmala, with IDEEA Lab, Tokyo Metropolitan University) Well Connected. NHS Lanarkshire: £3,150. (Elizabeth McLaughlin)

PhD Students Pamela Barnes / Kyle Barrett / Alison Bell / Andrea Braeuning / Nick Brooks / Nicola Black/ Kenneth Byres / John Carruthers / Christopher Dooks / Clare Duffin/ Ian Falconer / Danielle Farrel / Marco Federici / Rachael Flynn / Jacqueline Greener / Jennifer Jones / Stephen Langston / Mingxia Li / Anne McVitie / Mirjam Muller / Carole Naylor/ Ben Parry / Lou Prendergast / Jane Robertson/ Roman Sebastyanski / Sarah Scott / Emilia Sosnowska /Anna Sznajder / Iain Taylor / Eleanor Thom / Eleanor Yule

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Our Creative Future “In the next issue we will analyse our results from the Research Excellence Framework 2014, report on two major international conferences that we are hosting at CCA Glasgow in 2015, and profile practice-‐‑based work taking place at our Learning Theatre, the Gaiety Theatre in Ayr. Projects that we are developing on our campus doorsteps in Paisley and Ayr are supporting an emerging focus on culture, heritage, community participation and regeneration, and these will also take academics and students to Gdansk, Poland; Toronto, Canada; Stuttgart and Berlin, Germany, as well as other conference presentations and workshops around the world. We will also focus on some of the successful PhD students to have emerged from the Institute and profile some projects being developed across our new School of Media, Culture and Society.”

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