BRT Bright Red Sparks Awards
Facebook Live Award Ceremony
13 April 2020
An Edinburgh Festival City Map for Wester Hailes. This public engagement with research initiative was delivered as part of Explorathon 2019: European Researchers' Night. It involved a participative drawing and collage activity where members of the local community were asked to contribute to an Edinburgh Festival City Map for Wester Hailes
Whale Arts, Wester Hailes
27 September 2019
Dinner Party Debates: The Case for a Deaf Festival in the Festival City. Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. The BSL (Scotland) Act 2015 and subsequent National Plan (2017-2023) lays the foundation to improve the lives of BSL users in Scotland. Culture, public life and festivals figure within this mandate. This roundtable discussion takes the format of a lively dinner party and deliberates why Edinburgh should host Scotland's first Deaf festival.
Appleton Tower, Informatics Centre, Fringe Central, Edinburgh
10 August 2019
University Conference Workshop: Building a case with bricks
Craiglockhart Campus
18 June 2019
Room for Improvement? A briefing report on leadership and management in the public sector
Venue: Thames Pavilion, Houses of Parliament
Date: Friday 17th May 2019
Time: 11.30am – 2.30pm
16 May 2019
Call for Papers: Management, Governance and Ethical Finance Conference 2019
Craiglockhart Campus, Edinburgh Napier University.
9 April 2019 - 10 April 2019
Festival Frontiers: The Festival City. What is a festival city? Edinburgh is known as 'the world's leading festival city' and many cities around the globe are designated or branded as festival cities through their significant provision of festivals and events. This panel discussion unpacked the meaning of the festival city, beyond the brand; and in doing so it asked what are the physical and symbolic frontiers of a festival city in the 21st century? The panel discussion was attended by more than 30 members of the public, Science festival professional delegates and representatives from Edinburgh's Festivals and strategic destination management stakeholders. Hosted by: Dr Louise Todd, Tourism and Languages, The Business School, Edinburgh Napier University With panellists: Dr Gary Kerr, Tourism and Languages, The Business School, Edinburgh Napier University, Kenneth Wardrop, Managing Director, Wardrop Consulting, Dr Kirstie Jamieson, Urbanism, Exhibition and Heritage Design, School of Arts and Creative Industries Edinburgh Napier University, James McVeigh, Head of Marketing and Innovation, Festivals Edinburgh
Edinburgh International Science Festival, Lomond Room, Pleasance, Edinburgh
8 April 2019
Visual Methods and Ethnography in Interdisciplinary Research
The Business School
6 March 2019 - 4 June 2019
Financing Issues in the Belt and Road Initiative
Research Centre for Sustainable Hong Kong (CSHK), City University of Hong Kong.
6 November 2018
The Belt and Road Initiative: Challenges and Opportunities
The Confucius Institute for Scotland, The University of Edinburgh
4 October 2018