I have been appointed through application as SGSAH’s Creative Economies Knowledge Exchange Hub Advisory Board Lead. We develop entrepreneurial capacity and innovation in the research community, pursuing projects in the Plastic and Expressive Arts, Architecture, Design, Comics, Gaming, Film, Transmedia, Digital Arts and Publishing.
We work closely with BBC Scotland to offer valuable skills development and knowledge exchange opportunities for doctoral researchers. This relationship is of significant mutual benefit in developing increased understanding of the application of research within broadcast programme production, and employment within BBC, the independent production sector, and the creative economy as a whole.
Our relationship with the Victoria & Albert Museum, the world’s leading museum of art, design and performance, supports the development of the next generation of collections-based researchers, helping to prepare them for careers in academia and beyond. This is complemented by the position of our member universities of Dundee and Abertay as founding partners of the V&A Museum of Design Dundee.
The Hub unites the considerable assets in Creative Economy research of the University of Dundee, Abertay University, Glasgow School of Art, and the University of Edinburgh, and supports Creative Economies PhD students and Engagement Fellows, funded through the Arts & Humanities Research Council.
Doctoral internships with BBC Scotland, Creative Scotland and others are helping build transferable skills while bringing tangible benefits to host organisations, fostering entrepreneurial and enterprising ways of thinking to prepare doctoral researchers for creative careers.