Our friends at the wonderful Scottish Islands Federation held their 2018 AGM and island gathering on Tiree this week. An excellent event (check out the programme and contributions here) involving a range of key sector representatives and community groups from both Tiree and islands elsewhere. Disappointed to have my own travel plans to attend defeated by ‘Storm Ali’ but delighted that Scottish Centre for Island Studies colleague Rosie Alexander was able to attend with her ‘many hats on’ but not least in her capacity as freelance researcher and consultant on island issues. We look forward to hearing of the next steps from the gathering! Thanks for Tiree twitter feeds, Rosie @Rosie148 and James (Ellsmoor) @jellsmoor.
Scottish Islands Federation: Tiree 2018
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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 View all posts by Dr Kathryn A. Burnett
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