SCIS PhD Student Rachael Flynn presents at Picture this: postcards and letters beyond text conference at the University of Sussex, March 2011.

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Rachael Flynn presents at the Picture this: postcards and letters beyond text conference at the University of Sussex, March 2011.

Funded by the Scottish Centre for Island Studies PhD student Rachael Flynn travels to the University of Sussex to take part in the Picture this: postcards and letters beyond text conference: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/read/7432

.Rachael’s paper is based on her current doctoral research and pertains to the use of archival documents in her creative practice research. See here for a link to her paper’s abstract:

Rachel Flynn: Using the written letter as a fine-art source to inform and stimulate a creative practice-led enquiry

Published by Dr Kathryn A. Burnett

With a background in social anthropology, sociology and cultural studies, Kathryn’s research interests include the mediatization and representation of remote and island spaces; identity, ecologies and place narratives of Scotland’s rural communities, coasts and islands; cultural work, precarity and creative enterprise; Scottish cultural heritage and arts contexts including Gaelic and Scots for applied creative practice; sustainable communities, resilience, development, entrepreneurship, cultural policy and the commons in small island, remote, peripheral and rural contexts. Current external activity includes UWS representative on the Arctic Sustainable Arts and Design Network (ASAD); and Kathryn is an organising group member for UK wide MSIG in Participatory and Collaborative Methods. Contact: kathryn.burnett@uws.ac.uk