Professor Mike Danson, co-chair Scottish Centre for Island Studies was both co-organiser and presenter at the recent Rural Enterprise Conference at Dumfries Crichton Campus, June 2013. Mike presented a paper with Dr Laura Galloway, Herot-Watt University on “Micro-brewing and entrepreneurship: the origins, development and integration of real ale breweries in rural Scotland”. Mike also presented a paper on ‘Enterprise and Entrepreneurship on Islands’ with Dr Kathryn A Burnett
Geoff Whittam, formerly UWS and now Glasgow Caledonian University also co-organised the conference and co-authored with UWS colleagues David Moyes and Paul Ferri a paper on “The effective use of social capital in new venture creation”.
Mike chaired the SCIS Round Table discussion on Rural and Island Enterprise.
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
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