As part of the delivery of training in cultural heritage workshops that took place in Mombasa, Kenya from 12-16 November 2019, the team and participants took a trip to Fort Jesus.
Continue reading “Memorialisation, Heritage and Funding at Fort Jesus, Mombasa.”
The weeks from late October until mid-December always seem to be some of the most hectic of the year, and this is especially true for researchers looking at events like myself.
Continue reading “🎃 Busy Days During the Halloween Season 👻 🧟”
As principle investigator for the Anti-Slavery Knowledge Network funded project Hidden Histories: the untold stories of Slavery and James Town, I have spent a good deal of time in Ghana over the last twelve months.
Continue reading “Exploring modern slavery in James Town”
Irene Mackintosh, a second year PhD student in CCSE, is now working with the Simon Community Scotland in Glasgow as part of a participatory action research project reflecting on how digital exclusion impacts on people experiencing homelessness and how organisations can provide meaningful support.
Continue reading “Digital Inequality & The Simon Community”
There’s one benefit of what my PhD colleague calls Interdisciplinary Imposter Syndrome, I feel I can be part of both the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science (SGSSS) and Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH).
Continue reading “Health Inequalities & Mechanisms”
I was chatting with some PhD colleagues last week about the first few months of our research, and if there is one thing that we all seemingly had in common, it was the dreaded imposter syndrome.
Continue reading “My PhD journey so far: Interdisciplinary imposter syndrome?”
My PhD revolves around the discipline of Creative Economics, which sounds like a euphemism for financial crime. Its first commandment may be Richard Florida’s statement “Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron once was”.
Continue reading “Coal & Iron”
On the 3rd July 2019, I presented at the Global Strategy Forum, in the National Liberal Club, in Whitehall, London. Global Strategy Forum is an open forum, founded in 2006 and dedicated to the promotion of fresh thinking and active debate on foreign affairs, defence and international security issues.
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“I’d just like to say that I appreciate your tie today, Niclas!”, one of the interviewers said. The panel broke down laughing. Had they been thinking about it the whole time?
Continue reading “Paisley Ties 👔”
I’m now four months into my PhD in the field of arts and health within the context of cultural regeneration. I have a professional background in economic development consultancy and working as a research assistant at Citizens Advice Scotland.
Continue reading “Doctoral Research: Finding a Way Through the First Phases of Research”
Last week the British Council published The Art of Peace: the value of culture in post-conflict recovery. The booklet is a summary document deriving from earlier work undertaken by CCSE which was commissioned on the basis of a successful response to a British Council tender opportunity.
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We’re delighted with this short visual reminder of our launch event which was a great opportunity to increase awareness of CCSE and its activities, bringing together stakeholders from across the Renfrewshire and Glasgow regions with policy makers, community members, creative industry and academic participants active locally and nationally.
Continue reading “CCSE Launch Event || Short Film”
The new Centre for Culture, Sport and Events was launched officially on 21st March, the event was attended by almost a 100 local, national, policy, community and practitioner stakeholders.
Continue reading “Lift Off for the Centre for Culture, Sport & Events (CCSE) 🚀”