University Of Glasgow College of Arts

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Knowledge ExchangeCase Studies by Theme

Contents

Cultural Education 4Digital 14Dress & Textiles 28Film & Broadcasting 42Heritage 52Performing Arts 70Visual Arts 76Writing & Publishing 86

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Cultural Education Foghlam Cultarail

Cultural Education encompasses the work done by the College of Arts through formal and informal learning activities. Through the University’s collections, particularly those of the Hunterian, the College of Arts taps into a resource for research, teaching and knowledge exchange that attracts scholars and visitors from around the world. Using Cultural Education, we offer opportunities, reach audiences and achieve impacts beyond the usual routes and processes of engagement taken elsewhere.Partnership with the Centre for Open Studies allows the Hunterian to deliver innovative research. The Centre offers collaborative and interdisciplinary research opportunities, credit bearing and non-credit bearing courses, and lectures and events aligned with world-class collections and the Centre’s strategic objectives. This contributes to cultural life in the West of Scotland by taking scholarship to the wider community. Alongside secondary schools, The Hunterian works to develop sustainable and beneficial cultural and museum education. This is achieved in collaboration with Glasgow Museums (Glasgow Life), Local Education Authorities and Schools of Education from other universities in Scotland. In 2013/14, the Hunterian will begin a pilot initiative in partnership with Glasgow City Council Education Services and selected local secondary schools with low participation in Higher Education. The College of Arts has also been engaging directly with Education Scotland, the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) and the Scottish Association of Teachers of History (SATH). We have sought

to ensure that the Scottish secondary school history curriculum reflects up-to-date academic perspectives and to ensure that the teaching/learning experience in the secondary schools is as informative and engaging as possible. Christie’s Education is an affiliated institute of the University of Glasgow, and a subsidiary of Christie’s International, the auction house founded by James Christie in the 18th Century. Covering both undergraduate and postgraduate we have run joint programmes with Christie’s since 1987, when a joint Master’s programme in the Decorative Arts was established with History of Art.We also support lifelong learning through The Hunterian, which has identified a number of areas of focus for its Cultural Education activities. For researchers and the student population, Higher and Continuing Education provide informal and formal learning communities. Importantly, adult learners are also able to engage through the Centre for Open Studies. In addition, collections and current active research within the University provide directions for the Glasgow Science Festival. This festival will deliver ongoing public engagement through activities and opportunities aimed at schools, the general public, the student population and target specialist audiences. The knowledge base within the College of Arts, partnered with the Hunterian collections, represents a cultural asset with national and international reach. As a result, we are well placed to provide an intellectual and stimulating learning environment for a wide range of learners.

Cultural Education | Foghlam Cultarail

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Scottish History in Schools WebsiteProject Partners: Education Scotland, Scottish Qualifications Authority, Scottish Association of Teachers of HistoryAcademic: Dr Karin BowieContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:Launched in 2012, the History in Schools website has been developed by the College of Arts in consultation with teaching colleagues in the Scottish Association of Teachers of History and Education Scotland. It aims to disseminate Glasgow’s history research to teachers and pupils in Scotland’s schools by providing open access papers, teaching resources, podcasts and website links. These can be used by teachers in planning lessons or by pupils in researching essays. The website is organised by topic, with general education topics for S1-S3 and SQA Higher certificate topics for S4-S6. The team intends to add more themes, including Advanced Higher subjects, and to develop a more interactive website for sharing research, teaching files and ideas.


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Translations at the Edinburgh Film Festival

Project Partner: Edinburgh International FestivalAcademic: Dr Margaret TejerizoContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:Over the past 20 years, Margaret Tejerizo has collaborated with the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) as a translator, cultural adviser and interpreter. The aim has been to “give voice” to many works over these years to national and international EIF audiences.

This has involved using Russian, Spanish, French and Romanian and resulted in productions with theatre directors and conductors such as Peter Stein, Calixto Bieito, and Valerii Gergiev, as well as collaborations with theatre and opera companies worldwide.

In addition to the creation and production of supertitles for many major EIF productions, original translations into English for EIF include “Faust”, (from Romanian), “The Invisible City of Kitezh” (from Russian), “December” (from Spanish) and many more.


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Developing an Academic Programme with a Global Auction HouseProject Partner: Christie’s EducationAcademic: Prof Nick PearceContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:Christie’s Education and the University of Glasgow have been working together since 1987 when Juliet Kinchin was appointed as Course Director of the Decorative Arts Master’s programme within the then History of Art Department at the University of Glasgow. Juliet Kinchin is now Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at MoMA in New York.The success of this venture led to Christie’s Education establishing a Master’s Programme in London and Juliet’s successor, Ian Cox, was appointed as Director of the Master’s in Art, Style and Design (or Fine and Decorative Arts as it was then known). Ian Cox is now running the Christie’s Education New York Decorative Arts Summer School. Christie’s Education London became an Associated Institute of the University of Glasgow. Prof Michael Michael,

Academic Director, Christie’s Education


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Pilot Gaelic Language Initiative for Scotland’s Universities 2009 – 2011Project Partners: Bòrd na Gàidhlig, Scottish Government, Scottish Funding CouncilGaelic Language Officer: Fiona DunnContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:

In 2009, the College of Arts was funded to produce a Gaelic Language Initiative for the development of Gaelic language and culture amongst staff and students.

The University appointed the first Gaelic Language Officer in Scotland’s traditional universities. They developed an annual programme consisting of informal learning opportunities for staff and students, regular cultural events, and stronger links with the Glasgow Gaelic community.

A connected project, the Gaelic Language Residency Scheme, aims to provide young Gaelic speakers with the opportunity to live in a Gaelic environment and use Gaelic as their main language.

The success of the initiative has led to the creation of Gaelic Language Officer posts in the Universities of Edinburgh, Aberdeen and the UHI.


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The Hunterian Associates Programme

Project Partner: Hunterian Museum & GalleryAcademic: Prof Dee HeddonContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:

At the core of the Hunterian Associates Programme is the notion that the cutting-edge research of our postgraduate researchers will connect in exciting and unexpected ways with the Hunterian’s extensive collections and create new opportunities for public engagement.

In 2012, HAP’s first year, eight Associates implemented five varied projects on Japanese influenced art; the poem prints of Ian Hamilton Finlay; Paisley shawls; Hunter’s book collection and using museum objects to inspire creative writing. These projects attracted new audiences through gallery talks, lunchtime talks, and creative writing events, as well as the addition of new resources to the website.

In 2013, the College welcomes 13 more Associates whose projects span a fascinating variety of interests.


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People of Medieval ScotlandProject Partners: Education Scotland, Scottish Qualifications Authority, Scottish Association of Teachers of HistoryAcademic: Prof Dauvit BrounContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:A group of academics in the College of Arts are paving the way to develop resources to support the teaching of Scottish History in the classroom. A key part of this has been the creation of a vast database of 12th and 13th century Scotland: People of Medieval Scotland (POMS). The database has been designed for school children and their teachers, as well as academics to use. The database offers a new experience of engaging with the past, allowing thousands of individuals, and hundreds of places, to take centre stage. Professor Broun adds: “From Dingwall to Dumfries schools can investigate history that can be contextualized. Scottish History should look different in different parts of Scotland.”


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Raising Awareness of Islamic and Japanese Cultures in Britain

Academic: Dr Saeko YazakiContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:Dr Saeko Yazaki has been influential in raising awareness of Islamic and Japanese cultures in Britain. She co-organised the government funded ‘Contextualising Islam in Britain’ symposia in Cambridge, which discussed what it means to live as a Muslim in Britain today. A second report was published and launched in Glasgow in January 2013. This event involved police forces, city councils, Glasgow Life, Glasgow Forum of Faiths and a number of Muslim organisations.In Glasgow, she teaches Japanese religion to Japanese children. Although not a subject usually taught in Japan, as it is an integrated part of Japanese society, it allows the children and the wider community to learn about Japanese cultural identity and experience traditional customs.

Dr Saeko Yazaki

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Digital Didseatach

From digital content creation through data audit, digital forensics and information management, the College of Arts is good at going digital. The College of Arts engages with everyone from small architectural practices and independent video game producers to Fortune 500 financial corporations and national public sector bodies. Our Digital expertise falls under three main areas: risk assessment and digital asset management; computer forensics; and custom content management systems. We provide business with expert services to assess risks. As well as auditing data and infrastructure, we can make policy and procedure recommendations to improve asset management. This reduces losses, maximises returns and gives every business the capability to preserve information digitally in the long term. Sophisticated computer crimes put a globally networked society at risk. The increasing impact of technological crime highlights the need for highly competent computer forensic analysts. The College of Arts confronts this problem through a blend of computer and legal expertise. We regularly work with the cultural heritage sector –

museums, libraries, and archives – giving them specifically tailored advice on digitisation. Developing mobile web interfaces to give researchers access to data in new ways and places is of particular interest to us. There is a solution for every situation. Helped by our understanding of long-term digital preservation, digital workflows and access requirements we are expert at producing custom, open source, online content management systems. From simple dynamic sites through to complex systems, we aim to provide systems that not only exceed user expectations but are sustainable, long-term solutions. More recently, we have begun working with the video games industry, to investigate the educational benefits of gaming and encourage school children to get into the growing UK games industry. One of the initial programmes involved creating a physics based video game that highlights the importance of taking STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) subjects at school. We are as comfortable working with sole traders as multinational corporations, with advising third sector organisations as government ministers, in all cases taking the time to understand what you need and why you need it.

Digital | Didseatach

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BlogForever

Group:Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)Website:http://blogforever.eu/Contact: [email protected]

Project Overview:BlogForever is building innovative preservation, management, and access strategies for blogs. The outcome of the project will be deployed as an exciting new information system for harvesting, preserving and managing blog content, facilitating the discovery of new insights through restructuring and reuse. The project involves 11 other partners from six countries across Europe, including diverse industrial partners such as Altec, Tero, Mokono/Populis, Cyberwatcher, Phaistos and SRDC, as well as major research partners such as CERN , TU Berlin, University of Warwick, University of London Computing Centre , Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Funding for the project has come from the EU co-funded Framework Program 7. The College of Arts’ HATII is a key partner on the project.


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Digital Curation Centre (DCC)

Group: Humanities Advance Technology and Information Institute (HATII)Website: www.dcc.ac.ukContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:Active since 2004, the JISC-funded Digital Curation Centre (DCC) provides a world-leading centre of expertise in digital curation with a focus on building capacity, capability and skills for research data management. The DCC is comprised of a partnership between HATII at the University of Glasgow, the University of Edinburgh and the University of Bath. DCC works in partnership with many international organisations including the Research Data Alliance, the Digital Preservation Coalition, the Australian National Data Service, the Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information (CASRAI), the Coalition for Networked Information, Research Councils UK, the Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA) and CODATA.


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Design’s Digital Curation for Architecture (DEDICATE)Academics: Dr Ruggero LanciaDr Ian AndersonWebsite: http://architecturedigitalcuration.blogspot.co.ukContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:

An AHRC funded project, DEDICATE investigates, defines and tests policies, requirements and procedures to build a common sustainable framework for the curation of Built Environment related data.

In the DEDICATE project we collaborate with a select group of Scottish project partners from the communities of the main actors in the management and production of Built Environment; that is Architecture practices, Engineering consultancies and Building Control Authorities.

Recent national and international regulations enforcing the digital documentation of public works in BIM formats and the rising needs for authoritative and legal digital data management for the building elements manufacturing are going to be especially addressed by the researched framework. DEDICATE will finish at the end of August 2013.


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Data Management Skills Support InitiativeProject Partners: Vitae, the Research Information Network and MimasWebsite: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/training/damssi-abcContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:Training providers need tools to help them assess and evaluate the information literacy courses and resources they are producing. Students need to be able to identify the right information literacy course for their needs at the right time. Students and training providers looking to reuse course materials need easier ways to find and compare suitable courses and resources. To these ends, the JISC-funded project will test the Research Information and Digital Literacies Coalition (RIDLs) criteria for good practice as a means of self-assessing, describing and evaluating information literacy training; test Vitae’s Researcher Development Framework (RDF) Information Literacy lens as a benchmarking tool for learning outcomes; and develop an improved classification scheme and a Jorum ‘window’ into information literacy training materials using Jorum Powered.


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Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment (DRAMBORA)

Group:Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)Website: www.repositoryaudit.eu/Contact: [email protected]

Project Overview:Developed by HATII in partnership with the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE) the Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment (DRAMBORA) methodology and toolkit was released in 2008. This toolkit is intended to facilitate internal audit by providing repository administrators with a means to assess their capabilities, identify their weaknesses, and recognise their strengths. Digital repositories are still in their infancy and this model is designed to be responsive to the rapidly developing landscape. A number of international partners were involved in piloting DRAMBORA including the British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC), CERN the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the National Library of New Zealand, National Library of Sweden and National Library of France.


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Mobile Security and Forensics

Academic: Dr Brad GlissonContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:

Mobile devices, such as phones, tablets and laptops, expose individuals, businesses and governments to a multitude of information security risks. These risks can be investigated through case studies and experimental research that scrutinizes the impact of residual data in these environments.

Recent case studies with a Fortune 500 organization examined the residual data left on mobile devices issued to employees and the complexities of conducting cloud forensics investigation.

Both projects examined organizational policy impacts. Recent experimental research examined residual data on mobile devices sold into second hand markets. It has also investigated the use of mobile devices as a proxy to data stored in cloud storage.


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Digital Design Curation (DIDECU)Academics: Dr Ruggero LanciaDr Ian AndersonPartner: Page/Park ArchitectsContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:

The DIDECU project ran between 2010 and 2011, was funded by the Scottish Government through a First Step Award, a grant of £5,000. This knowledge exchange project was aimed at transferring curatorial competences and procedures to an Architecture practice while evaluating both the feasibility and the adequacy in a medium sized commercial context of the audit tools and methodologies, policies and requirements established by the Digital Curation community.

This investigation resulted in an audit of the data held, the infrastructure implemented and the procedures adopted by the project partner, complemented by their correlated risk assessment, and in a complete preservation plan detailing policies, requirements and suggested procedures tailored to the project partners procedural and technical context.


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Preservation and Long-term Access through NETworked Services (PLANETS)

Group:Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)Website: www.planets-project.eu/ Contact: [email protected]

Project Overview:HATII was a key partner in the EU-funded FP6 Planets project, which developed tools, approaches and courses to address the challenge of preserving access to digital cultural and scientific knowledge. The project involved 15 other partners from national libraries, archives, universities and technology companies throughout Europe, including IBM, The British Library, National Library of the Netherlands, Swiss Federal Archives and The Austrian Institute of Technology. HATII led the development of a testbed environment to evaluate tools and services as well as devising the Planets training programme, a successful series of events which raised awareness of digital preservation and the project’s solutions amongst memory institution staff from across Europe and beyond.


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Timeless Business Processes (TIMBUS)

Group:Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)Website: http://www.timbusproject.net/Contact: [email protected]

Project Overview:The Digital Preservation Coalition is a partner in a major European Research project investigating the development of Timeless Business Processes.

The EU co-funded ‘TIMBUS’ project focuses on resilient business processes. It will make the execution context, within which data is processed, analysed, transformed and rendered, accessible over long periods. Furthermore, continued accessibility is often considered as a set of activities carried out in the isolation of a single domain.

TIMBUS, however, considers the dependencies on third-party services, information and capabilities that will be necessary to validate digital information in a future usage context. It will deliver activities, processes and tools that ensure continued access to services and software and produce the context within which information can be accessed, properly rendered, validated and transformed into knowledge.


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Gaelic Language Corpus

Project Partners: British Academy, Scottish Funding Council, Bòrd na Gàidhlig, Scottish Government Academics: Prof Roibeard Ó MaolalaighContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:Within the College of Arts, two related research projects were established in 2006 and 2008 respectively: Digital Archive of Scottish Gaelic and Corpas na Gàidhlig. Both are funded by British Academy, Scottish Funding Council, Bòrd na Gàidhlig and the Scottish Government. They provide the primary materials for innovative research on the Gaelic language, future technological developments (including apps), and a comprehensive historical dictionary of the Gaelic language.The College was also commissioned by Bòrd na Gàidhlig to research the development of Gaelic corpus technology. This resulted in a published report, which sets out recommendations and a roadmap for future development. Academics have produced widely used Gaelic learning books and materials, as well as an annual literary journal: Aiste: Studies in Gaelic Literature.


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Linguists Assist English Teaching TechnologyProject Partner: Micro-phonics Ltd Academics: Dr Jane Stuart-SmithDr Rachel SmithContact: [email protected]

Micro-phonics, an e-learning company based in Glasgow, has developed Pronunciation Coach, self paced courseware to help people read, understand and speak English. It is an interactive multimedia tool delivered through any web browser device and combines synthetic phonics with real video, audio, animations, images, to teach correct pronunciation, and oral comprehension. Pronunciation Coach is web delivered via standard Virtual Learning Environments and unlike other products, augments existing ESOL curricula with minimal disruption to staff.

Two phoneticians from Glasgow University Laboratory of Phonetics (GULP) worked with Micro-phonics during two funded projects, a First Step Award and an Encompass Award. These projects aimed to examine and quantify the effectiveness of Micro-phonics Pronunciation Coach in the context of a live pilot that was initiated at a local ESOL campus in September 2011. Together with Micro-phonics two assessment tasks were developed and implemented, and the results were analysed and interpreted. These initial results have helped to define the groups of users most likely to benefit from using Pronunciation Coach, and to increase the linguistic sophistication of the online lessons and quizzes. Both sides have found the collaboration extremely fruitful and have plans for further work to develop the tool from segments and words to connected speech.


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Preparing Students for a Career in TranslationProject Partner: SDL Trados Academic: Dr Georgina CollinsContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:

The technical part of the MSc in Translation Studies includes an introduction to computer assisted translation (CAT) software from SDL Trados. The company, currently the world leader in Translation Studies software, provides software and learning and teaching materials for students. The training helps to prepare the students for employment in the fields of legal, medical, financial and manual translation.

Students take the online certification exams for SDL’s terminology and translation memory management software free of charge. These qualifications can really help a newly qualified translator to secure a wider variety of work.

Studying the technology has also provided interesting areas for research in Translation Studies as CAT tools are advancing at a fast rate.

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Dress & Textiles Aodach & Obair-aodaich

Our expert team of historians, curators, conservators and conservation scientists from different disciplines makes the College of Arts a premier resource for the history, interpretation and preservation of dress and textiles. We have extensive knowledge and expertise both in the academic theory and the professional practice of collections, collecting and conservation. We cover wide-ranging themes and periods across fashion and dress histories, historical decorative and furnishing textiles and modern textile art. Interconnecting with these themes is the scientific investigation and understanding of historical natural and synthetic textile materials and colorants. This puts the College of Arts in a unique position to study historical dress and textiles from a new perspective. This truly interdisciplinary approach enriches our existing collaborative partnerships with the University’s Scottish Business Archive and Hunterian Museum, and with Glasgow Life’s rich and diverse museum collections of textiles. It also helps to shape new partnerships that provide opportunities for innovative research and professional training through shared purpose and knowledge exchange between students, academics and industry professionals. Our two new postgraduate Masters programmes, in textile conservation and in dress and textile histories, are proving very popular. Our object-focussed approach to academic and practical training attracts graduates nationally and internationally to postgraduate study here.

Industry-focussed partnerships with local, national and international museums and cultural institutions further enhance students’ essential skills and knowledge through student work placements and dissertation projects. This allows them to pursue successful careers in conservations and curatorship. All of our doctoral and postdoctoral research takes place in collaboration with cultural heritage partners, allowing us privileged access to many of the world’s best museum collections, archives and expertise. Current topics cover international and national textile histories of dyes and dyeing, haute couture design, cultural exchange in the textile trade, painted textiles, lace, knitting, tapestries and interior furnishings. Our expansive professional networks and international conferences for historical dress and textiles also offer opportunities to inspire today’s creative industries and educational resources, foster new interdisciplinary collaboration, and share our knowledge and expertise professionally and publically. Current and recent examples include the Centre for Textile Conservation and Technical Art History Research Network, ‘Tapestries in the Round’ and the Institute for Conservation triennial conference, 2013. Because we attract international high-calibre researchers to our excellent facilities at the University, all of our collaborative partners benefit from interdisciplinary knowledge exchange for cutting-edge professional advances and innovative research to answer real questions with impactful outcomes.

Dress & Textiles | Aodach & Obair-aodaich

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Project Partner: Dumfries MuseumAcademic: Karen Thompson, Liz Hancock

Project Overview:A rare survival of an early nineteenth century militia jacket came to light as a result of research being carried out in preparation for an exhibition at the University of Glasgow’s Hunterian Art Gallery on Captain Laskey who was the author of the Hunterian’s first catalogue but was also a soldier in the Galloway Militia regiment. The militia jacket found in the Dumfries collection was an example of the clothing worn by the Galloway militia and has generated much interest.

In collaboration with the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Textile Conservation and Technical Art History, the Dumfries Museum staff arranged for the jacket to be conserved as it would provide an excellent learning experience for one of the final year MPhil Textile Conservation students. Extensive research and documentation was carried out involving liaison with Dumfries Museum’s curatorial staff, the University of Glasgow’s conservation and research staff and National Museums of Scotland curators to build a picture of the jacket’s history to inform the conservation. This interdisciplinary collaboration enabled a significant piece of material culture to be better understood and preserved for future study and display.

Militia Jacket:Uncovered and Conserved

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Before conservation (left )and after (right).


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Project Partner: Glasgow Museums, Glasgow LifeAcademic: Frances Lennard

Project Overview:

A series of research workshops is bringing together the Scottish university and cultural heritage sectors in partnership around the topic of new directions in tapestry research. The importance of tapestry in domestic, stately and ecclesiastical interiors before the eighteenth century is well known, but all too often from the perspectives of single disciplines. ‘Tapestry in the Round’ exploits the happy coincidence of three developments in Scotland to establish a truly interdisciplinary network into textile history and conservation: the creation of the Centre for Textile Conservation and Technical Art History (Glasgow University); a major new catalogue project at the Burrell Collection (Glasgow Museums); and growing research into the History of Material Culture in the School of Humanities at the University of Glasgow. The result will be greater public and scholarly understanding of some of Scotland’s most precious public treasures, but also a durable collaboration between two key elements of the public sector for future investigation of textile history and conservation.

Tapestry in the Round: Interdisciplinary Textile History

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Project Partner: National Museums ScotlandAcademic: Dr Anita QuyeContact:

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Project Overview:ARTIST ROOMS is a donated collection of major contemporary art works by renowned international artists that is jointly owned and managed for the nation by Tate and National Galleries of Scotland (NGS).

As an integral part of the consortium’s research strand, experts in the College of Arts are leading discussions between conservators, collection managers and scientists at Tate, NGS and other partners. They aim to develop and promote innovative strategies for textile conservation and collection care in contemporary art. The focus is particularly placed on the collection and resources needed for extensive exhibition.

These discussions are also stimulating fresh approaches to ethical decision-making for conservation and management of other historical textiles.

ARTIST ROOMS: Fibres and textiles research


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Chinese Costume and Textile Dyes of the Ming and Qing Dynasty

Project Partner: Glasgow Museums, Glasgow LifeAcademics: Dr Anita QuyeProf Nick PearceContact:

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Project Overview:Colour was a significant status symbol in the textiles of the Chinese imperial courts of the Ming and Qing dynasties, especially yellows and reds. A better understanding of the historical reasons for these colour choices, the source of the dyes and the dyeing methods can help to answer questions about the date, provenance and significance of textiles as well as informing conservation practices.

By combining complementary strengths of the College of Arts’ expertise in Chinese art history, scientific dye analysis and conservation science with curatorial expertise in Asian textiles at Glasgow Museums, this collaborative project will draw on archival research, scientific analysis and reconstruction of historical practices.


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Project Partner: The National Trust for ScotlandAcademics: Dr Anita QuyeKaren ThompsonContact:

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Project Overview:‘Dirty Stories’ is a collaborative exchange between experts in conservation science and conservation from the College of Arts with analytical chemical science experts at the University of Aberdeen.

The project aims to help curators and conservators make informed decisions about whether or not to remove sooty deposits on historical textiles. Sooty deposits can be invaluable evidence of the object’s maker or owner and its provenance, but can equally detract from the object’s appearance if they obscure informative details or, worse, cause degradation of the object.

The results of the collaborative research will be translated into practical, cost-effective solutions that heritage organisations like the National Trust for Scotland (NTS) can apply themselves.

Dirty Stories – what dirt from historic textiles can tell us


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Hand Knitted Textiles and the

Economic of Craft in Scotland

Project Partner: Shetland Museum and ArchivesAcademics: Prof Lynn AbramsDr Marina MoskowitzContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:Academic historians have been working to explore the place and significance of hand-knitted textiles to Scotland’s economy and culture: past, present, and future. This has been done in collaboration with external organisations such as the Shetland Museum and Archives, the Moray Firth Partnership (Gansey Project), and Jamieson & Smith, as well as individual designers, producers and artists.With funding from the Royal Society of Edinburgh, academics ran three workshops (on wool, knitting and design) and a public study day at the Lighthouse in Glasgow, which drew together academics, practitioners, designers, makers, industry, creatives, heritage professionals and amateur knitters to talk about how Scottish hand knit traditions have been and are being adapted, produced and marketed in the modern age.


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Project Partner: Shetland Museum and ArchivesAcademics: Prof Lynn AbramsDr Marina MoskowitzContact:

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Project Overview:In 2010 academics from the College of Arts were awarded an AHRC’ Collaborative Doctoral Award in collaboration with Carol Christiansen of Shetland Museum and Archives for a doctoral research project on the history of hand knitted lace in Shetland.

The research is being undertaken by Roslyn Chapman and has involved collaborations with collections and heritage organisations across Shetland and with community groups. The outcomes will include enhanced interpretation of the largest collection of knitted lace in the UK in Shetland museum and knowledge transfer between academics and knitters.

The History of Hand-Knitted Lace in Shetland


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Project Partner: Fashion Museum, BathAcademic: Frances LennardContact:

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Project Overview:Mattli has been largely forgotten in the histories of dress of the twentieth century even though he was a major player in the London couture scene from World War II until the 1960s. The Fashion Museum in Bath has an archive of Mattli press books and drawings, and a small number of garments but very little was known about the collection. The researcher and the museum worked together in feeling that these interesting, rich resources warranted further evaluation in the context of the history of post-war British couture. As part of the PhD research the garments have been catalogued and a database of the press books has been created, allowing greater access to these resources. The research has uncovered many details of Mattli’s couture business and analysing these has helped to put his work into context. The research will do a great deal to revive his reputation.

Jo Mattli and his contribution to the British fashion and textile industry

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Project Partner: National Museums ScotlandAcademic: Dr Anita QuyeContact:

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Project Overview:ReINVENT is an innovative interdisciplinary partnership between the College of Arts and National Museums Scotland (NMS) to enhance the display and interpretation of Scotland’s rich textile manufacturing heritage, including the inspirational new £12 million galleries for NMS’ Scottish Science and Technology and European Art and Design collections. It returns objects and archives to their forgotten contexts: how, when, where or why they were made, and the feats of technology this entailed.

ReINVENT unites the expertise of conservation scientists, curators, conservators, archivists, and historians. In a research collaboration between the College of Arts, School of Chemistry and the University’s Scottish Business Archive they succeeded in recreating the famous Turkey red dye.

ReINVENT: reconnecting and recreating 19th century Scottish textile manufacture


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Project Partner: MakeworksAcademics: Prof Lynn AbramsDr Marina MoskowitzContact:

[email protected]

Project Overview:Academics are collaborating with Fi Scott of MakeWorks, an independent design-led organisation that facilitates, celebrates and debates making, manufacture and craft in Scotland. The research into the history of Sanquhar knit designs (a distinctive two-coloured design) is supported by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and is the outcome of a series of workshops that brought together business, academics and knitters to discuss the relationship between the history of Scottish knitting traditions with present day developments in hand knitted textiles. Academics have interviewed knitters, collected patterns and artefacts and recorded artefacts for a digital archive. The project will culminate in a report, a digital collection and a public event.

The History of Sanquhar Knit


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Project Partner: Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, ChinaAcademic: Prof Nick PearceContact:

[email protected]

Project Overview:The Famen Temple in Shaanxi province was the royal temple during the Sui Dynasty (581-618) and Tang Dynasty (618-907). Treasures found in the excavation of the underground crypt in 1987 include fragile silk textiles dating from the Tang Dynasty.

In this project, metallic threads from this early period of Chinese Famen silk have been scientifically investigated in terms of their material, technology and structure. This analysis is combined with an investigation of Chinese traditional manufacturing techniques of producing gold and silver wrapped threads, and compared with techniques still practiced today. Further research into technical categories and principles of metallic thread development is also underway. Experimental work on the ideal conditions necessary for the preservation of metal threads is ongoing.

Metallic Threads of Famen Temple silk (618-874), Tang Dynasty, China


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Project Partner: National Taiwan MuseumAcademic: Frances Lennard

Project Overview:The Flag of the Formosa Republic, or the Tiger Flag, is in the collection of the National Taiwan Museum. It is a copy of one made in 1895, after the war between China and Japan, to mark the formation of a new Taiwanese republic; the original flag was sent to Japan following the subsequent Japanese invasion. This replica was made in Japan in 1909 for the new museum in Taipei. Although only a copy of the original, as a tangible legacy of the short-lived republic the Tiger Flag is a cultural icon in Taiwan.

The National Taiwan Museum wished to display this highly significant artefact but it was in poor condition. The flag raised interesting questions: What was the significance of previous repairs? Was it originally blue as records suggested? An expert in textile conservation from the University of Glasgow acted as a consultant to the investigation and conservation project, helping researchers to gain a better understanding of the flag’s history, and advising on conservation treatment so that the flag could be safely displayed.

Investigation and conservation of the Flag of the Formosa Republic

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Film & BroadcastingFiolm & Craoladh

The College of Arts is ideally located in Scotland’s media capital. Glasgow is home to BBC Scotland and Scottish Television (STV) as well as to a host of film and television companies in the Pacific Quay area and nearby Film City. The College of Arts and the Film and Broadcasting industry have a mutually beneficial relationship. Many of our former Film and Television Studies students hold prominent positions in film and broadcasting institutions in Scotland – from production staff to presenters, casting directors to film festival directors. They regularly return to the College to pass on their experiences to current students, helping them to make a start in these competitive industries. Through Film and Television Studies and the Centre for Cultural Policy Research, we also conduct extensive work into film and broadcasting. This includes desk-based research into specific films or programmes, critical production studies, reception of films and programmes in local contexts, and studies into both Scottish and UK cultural policy. Where possible, we take advantage of the range of potential industry partners on our doorstep. We have links with BBC Scotland, STV, the Glasgow Film Theatre, Scotland’s touring cinemas and the Edinburgh International Film Festival to

name but a few. However, our partnerships and research extend well beyond Scotland and the College of Arts engages on a global scale. Current members of staff are board members and/or trustees of the Africa in Motion Festival and the Document UK Human Rights Film Festival. Due to our many close links and partnerships, our students are also able to gain practical experience of the industry via, for example, collaborative doctoral awards (students studying towards a PhD). Events and screenings are also organised regularly in association with numerous festivals in our Gilmorehill cinema. Finally, academics make important contributions to a range of television programmes. This ranges from the presentation of new academic research to on-screen interviews exploring a range of interests. Recently, we have been involved in BBC documentaries on the history of tartan and the Scottish voice in film and television. We are keen to deepen and strengthen the existing strong links that we have with the film and broadcasting industries in Scotland and further afield, but we are just as keen to forge fresh ones.

Film & Broadcasting | Fiolm & Craoladh

www.glasgow.ac.uk/arts/ke/themes/filmandbroadcasting/aim

The Africa Film Festival

Partner:Africa in MotionWebsite: www.africa-in-motion.org.ukAcademic: Dr Lizelle BisschoffContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:The Africa in Motion (AiM) Film Festival was founded in 2005 by Lizelle Bisschoff, then a PhD student at the University of Stirling and now an academic in the College of Arts. The festival programming has always been closely related to and informed by Lizelle’s research.Filmhouse Cinema (Edinburgh) has been the main hosting venue for the festival, but in 2012 the festival expanded to Glasgow, screening films and hosting events at the University of Glasgow, the Glasgow Film Theatre, and the African and Caribbean Network.So far AiM has screened around 300 African films to audiences totalling almost 20,000 people, as well as hosting Q&As with directors, panel discussions, workshops, African storytelling, and performances by African musicians.


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Locating Bannockburn at 700Project Partners: BBC, National Trust for Scotland, Conservation Foundation, Heritage Lottery FundAcademics: Dr Iain Banks, Dr Tony PollardContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:Academics from the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology (CBA) are teaming up with the BBC and several conservation bodies in an attempt to answer one of Scotland’s biggest historical mysteries: the exact location of the Battle of Bannockburn.The BBC will be working with academics from the College of Arts to mark the 700th anniversary of the battle by following the progress of a new archaeological dig which will attempt to clear up the uncertainty surrounding one of the most important dates in Scottish history.The programme, due to be filmed over 18 months and broadcast in Spring 2014, reunites the successful partnership of Neil Oliver and College of Arts Archaeologist and Historian, Dr Tony Pollard (right), from the 2003 ‘Two Men in a Trench’ series.


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Public Service Broadcasting Provision and Children’s MediaProject Partner: BBCAcademic: Dr Lynn WhitakerContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:Based in the Children’s Department of BBC Scotland, this project (an AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award) investigated the production culture of that department through ethnographic research.

In particular, the project focused on the idea of ‘public service broadcasting’ (PBS) and how that was articulated in the department’s ways of working.

The project confirmed the BBC’s willingness to engage with the academic community and to support an open research agenda. The resulting thesis documents the public service culture and ethos that existed in the department. This research can be used to inform the debates around plurality and quality in PSB provision and in children’s media generally.


www.glasgow.ac.uk/arts/ke/themes/filmandbroadcasting/document

International Documentary Human Rights Film Festival

Partner:DocumentWebsite: http://documentfilmfestival.orgAcademics: Dr David Archibald, María Antonia Vélez-Serna Contact: [email protected]

Project Overview:

Document is the only dedicated international human rights documentary film festival in Scotland. Held annually in October, it is a grassroots initiative that aims to use film as an advocacy tool to raise the profile and promote debate of human rights & social issues across the globe. The festival provides a unique platform that attracts Scottish, UK and international documentary filmmakers and promotes local and international discussion, cultural exchange and education. It screens a large and diverse selection of human rights films that are rarely shown in the UK to offer a broader understanding of issues often ignored by the mainstream media.Two academics, David Archibald and María Antonia Vélez-Serna, are festival Board Members and contribute to shaping the festival’s management strategy, programme and public events.The current Programme Co-ordinator, Lindsey Reid, is a former Master’s student at the University


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The History of Doomster HillProject Partner: Connolly Clark ProductionsAcademic: Dr David ArchibaldContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:In partnership with Connolly Clark Productions, an academic from the College of Arts is currently making an experimental documentary about medieval Scotland. The film explores the history of Doomster Hill, the sacred space of the Kings of Strathclyde, which was located in Govan.

Doomster Hill served as a site for public assemblies and the passing of laws in the 9th to 11th centuries: yet, despite its historical significance, there is little awareness of its history.

The film draws on the research of Professor of Archaeology in the College of Arts, Stephen Driscoll, who has been actively researching Govan since the 1990s, in order to explore the history of medieval Govan and its importance to Scottish history.


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Collaborating with Glasgow Film

Project Partner: Glasgow FilmAcademic: Dr David ArchibaldContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:The College of Arts has collaborated with Glasgow Film on a number of occasions.

Glasgow Film publishes interpretative materials, usually short essays, on films screened to a public audience, which are often written by postgraduate students or graduates from the College. This gives the students paid experience of writing for a wide audience, as well as exposure: their work is published online and made available in cinemas.

In addition, an AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award has studied the cinema audiences of the successful Glasgow Film Festival. This partnership confirmed the value of the collaborative relationship between the College and the organisation.


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Ofcom Advisory Committee for Scotland

Project Partner: OfcomAcademic: Prof Philip SchlesingerContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:

Prof Philip Schlesinger is the chair of Ofcom’s Advisory Committee for Scotland (ACS). This role involves organizing the committee’s activities, interacting with Ofcom’s officers and board in London and engaging with stakeholders in Scotland.

Philip Schlesinger’s research over many years on the relationships between nations, public spheres and communications (with a special focus at times on Scotland) and also his work on the ‘creative economy’ and policy-making has been of direct use in advising Ofcom. The advice he can offer is particularly relevant in the run-up to the referendum on independence.

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Heritage Dualchas

Heritage is a broad term frequently applied to a range of areas. These might include the natural world, the environment and human interactions with it, through to the buildings, monuments and artefacts passed down from previous generations, demonstrating the breadth and catch-all nature of the concept of heritage. In this theme, the emphasis is very much on cultural heritage – the tangible and intangible inheritance that we recognise, record, manage, maintain, debate, enjoy, and preserve for future generations to appreciate. Even narrowing the definition of heritage to focus on the cultural gives rise to an extensive assortment of topics and fields – from historic landscapes, buildings, field monuments, cultural artefacts ranging from evidence of prehistoric toolmaking to the rise of modern industries, craftwork and works of art, books and documents, clothing and personal items: all things which are seen as representative of the story of human development. Combined with these physical aspects of heritage are intangible features which may be associated with them – memories, stories, ideas, performances, even language itself – which together help to define who we are and where we have come from. Consequently the cultural heritage theme is situated

throughout the College of Arts and beyond, over a time span of several millennia, a global geographical spread, and covering every subject area.

The focus on heritage representing the past is not itself uncontested, with frequent discussions about the importance of the preservation of contemporary cultural heritage recognising that the past of tomorrow is the present of today. This, combined with the need to actively preserve cultural heritage representing past generations, emphasises the need for positive action in the present and the importance of academic contributions to policy and practice as well as the more traditional scholarly study and interpretation of cultural heritage. Academics across the College of Arts are providing cultural heritage consultancy and advice for a wide variety of organisations, ranging from government agencies, charitable bodies, businesses, media, local authorities and community groups. This covers areas such as strategic policy development and enhancement, curriculum development across a broad range of subjects, contributions and advice to heritage programmes and news items, as well as advising and supporting community engagement with aspects of their cultural heritage.

Heritage | Dualchas

www.glasgow.ac.uk/arts/ke/themes/heritage/4c

Collaboration on Clarifying the Costs of Curation (4C)Group:Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)Website:www.4cproject.eu/Contact:

[email protected]

Project Overview:The 4C project brings together 13 agencies in 7 different countries so that organizations can approach their investment in the curation and preservation of their cultural heritage and scientific information with greater certainty and with greater clarity about what they will receive in return.

The 4C project is co-funded by European Union under the Framework 7 programme for research and technological development and demonstration activities and will run from February 1, 2013 until January 31, 2015. Partners include HATII, Digital Preservation Coalition, Danish National Archives, German National Library, Institute for System and Computer Engineering in Portugal, Keep Solutions, and the National Library of Estonia.

Heritage | Dualchas

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Awakening Annandale’s Past

Partner:Annandale DistillerySubjects involved:Archaeology, Scottish History, Scottish LiteratureContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:The Annandale Distillery in Dumfriesshire has been dormant since 1919. However, all this is changing: whisky will be produced in Annan once more. Three collaborative projects involving experts from across the College of Arts helped to restore the lost history and culture of one of Scotland’s most iconic lost whisky distilleries.

Firstly, a three-month investigation drew up a detailed report tracing the evolution of the buildings to inform the development decisions in advance of planning applications. Then researchers built up a history of the area and ensured that the volumes of information pertaining to Annan were made available to the public. Finally, a project provided information vital to the development of the distillery’s brand and marketing. This work was financed via First Step Awards and an Innovation Voucher.

The Annandale Distillery

Heritage | Dualchas

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The William Collins ArchivePartner:HarperCollinsGroup:University of Glasgow Archive ServicesContact:

[email protected]

Project Overview:The partnership between HarperCollins and the University to preserve the William Collins, Sons & Co Ltd Archive allows HarperCollins to draw on its rich heritage to support future growth and protect its assets. At the same time, researchers are provided with access to these unique resources which document the development of this publishing giant.

HarperCollins traces its British roots to 1819, when William Collins established his printing and publishing business in Glasgow. From its beginnings publishing religious texts and reference works, the company developed the market for popular editions of classical literature before moving into the publication of original fiction. Collins established itself as a key figure in the international market publishing authors including Agatha Christie, JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis and Enid Blyton.

Heritage | Dualchas

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Locating BannockburnProject Partner: BBC, The National Trust for Scotland, Heritage Lottery FundAcademics: Dr Tony PollardDr Iain BanksContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:Academics from the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology (CBA) are teaming up with the BBC and several conservation bodies in an attempt to answer one of Scotland’s biggest historical mysteries: the exact location of Bannockburn.

“The team at CBA were always the natural choice for this pro-ject. The expertise of Dr’s Banks and Pollard is unique.” Richard Downs, BBC. “Combining my work as an archaeologist with television has allowed me to take cutting edge projects into the homes of millions of people worldwide, and as a university based academic I am delighted to have played a role in popularising my subject and making it accessible to the viewing public. ” - Dr Tony Pollard (right)

Heritage | Dualchas

www.glasgow.ac.uk/arts/ke/themes/heritage/battlefield

Centre for Battlefield Archaeology – Policy and Consultancy Partner:Historic Scotland

Academics:

Dr Iain Banks, Dr Tony Pollard Contact:

[email protected]

Project Overview:The Centre for Battlefield Archaeology has been working on the Inventory of Scottish Battlefields since 2006. Working closely with Historic Scotland, the Centre created the site entries, the site boundaries and provided the information that was used to write the battlefields section of the Scottish Historic Environment Policy.

The Centre has provided training sessions on battlefields with Historic Scotland for planners in local councils, for Historic Scotland casework staff and for heritage organisations. The Centre provided consultancy on the development of management plans for battlefields, and has produced the guidance on minimum standards for mitigation work on battlefields within the Inventory. The Centre is currently investigating the Battle of Bannockburn, inone of the biggest battlefield projects yet to take place in Scotland.

Image: Battlefield of Glen Shiel taken from the defences of the Spanish troops looking up the glen to the location of the government troops.

Heritage | Dualchas

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Closing the Digital Curation Gap (CDCG)

Group:Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)Website:http://digitalcurationexchange.org/Contact: [email protected]

Project Overview:Over the past decade, a significant gap has emerged between the research and development in digital curation, on the one hand, and professional practices of archivists, librarians, and museum curators, on the other. There are now many viable applications, models, strategies, and standards for long-term care of digital ob-jects. However, many institutions with a mandate to do this work are either unaware of the options or currently unable to evaluate and implement them.

There is a need to test, refine and diffuse existing innovations into professional practice. HATII is a core partner in the CDCG project which created guidance and tools to support the cultural heritage repository community, and especially staff in small to medium-sized institutions, to undertake more confidently curation related activity. Partners included the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Library of Congress, and the Strate-gic Content Alliance (SCA).

Heritage | Dualchas

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Digital Curator Vocational Education Europe Project (DigCurv)

Group:Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)Website:www.digcurv.gla.ac.uk/Contact: [email protected]

Project Overview:DigCurV is a project funded by the European Commission’s Leonardo da Vinci programme designed to establish a curriculum framework for vocational training in digital curation. Following on in HATII’s strong suite of digital curation projects, DigCurV has addressed the availability of vocational training for digital curators in the library, archive, museum and cultural heritage sectors needed to develop new skills that are essential for the long-term management of digital collections. Building on research identifying the key skills and competencies required of digital curators, HATII has established a curriculum framework from which training programmes can be developed in future. We are in the process of disseminating the framework to policy and decision makers to raise awareness of the curriculum and promote its exploitation. Our partners include Vilniaus Universiteto Biblioteka (Lithuania), Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale (Italy), Nestor Qualification Consortium (Goettingen State and University Library, Germany) as well as Institute of Museum and Library Services (USA) and Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC).

Heritage | Dualchas

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The Tenant Experience in Social HousingPartner:East Kilbride & District Housing AssociationAcademic:Prof Lynn AbramsContact:

[email protected]

Project Overview:East Kilbride & District Housing Association (EKDHA) is a registered social landlord which owns and manages 512 houses available for social rent. EKDHA engaged with the College of Arts to conduct a series of oral history interviews with long-term residents about their expectations and experiences in the area.

Using a First Step Award to finance the project, the research revealed high levels of satisfaction with the new town housing and way of life, with respondents commenting on the modern style of homes, the sense of community and the positive sense of wellbeing experienced in the town’s early years.EKDHA commented: “The outputs from this project delivered far more than we would have been able to undertake independently of the College of Arts. The process of engaging with the College was easier than we anticipated.”

Heritage | Dualchas

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Student Conservation of Archaeological Textiles

Partner: The British MuseumAcademic: Sarah Foskett

Contact: [email protected]

Project Overview:The aim of the project is to conserve textile fragments dating from the 7th-9th century excavated from two Nubian cemetery sites in Kulubnarti, Sudan. The project was initiated by Julie Anderson, Curator in the Department of Ancient Egypt and the Sudan, and Anna Harrison, Senior Organic Artefacts Conservator at the British Museum.The principal opportunity is to establish a mutually beneficial collaboration which has the potential to develop and grow into the long term. As well as gaining crucial theoretical and practical experience of archaeological textiles, MPhil Textile Conservation students have the opportunity to gain an insight into the motivations and working methods of a large institution. For the British Museum, this is a great opportunity to have some fascinating textiles conserved which otherwise might remain untreated; to add to existing knowledge about their collection; to gain experience in teaching and the organisation of such a project; and to maintain valuable links with colleagues at the University of Glasgow.Left: Student Moe Sato undertaking conservation treatment of a Kulubnarti fragment. © Trustees of the British Museum and University of Glasgow

Heritage | Dualchas

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Georgian Glasgow

Partner:Glasgow Museums, Glasgow LifeAcademic:Prof Simon NewmanContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:Staff and postgraduate students in the School of Humanities are working closely with Glasgow Museums in the development of the ‘Georgian Glasgow’ exhibit, which will run in the Kelvingrove Museum between 2nd April and 17th August 2014.

Part of the exhibit explores the connections between Glasgow and New World colonial slavery, and School staff are developing a symposium in which presentations will develop from particular artefacts in the exhibit.

These presentations, along with digital images of the artefacts, will be mounted on a website for use by school learners and students around the world.

Heritage | Dualchas

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TheGlasgowStory

Group:Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)Website:www.theglasgowstory.com/index.php

Contact: [email protected]

Project Overview:Ever wondered who lived in your house or street before the First World War? Or how the city was laid out before a multitude of urban regeneration projects and motorway-building schemes altered the face of the city, sweeping away streets and entire neighbourhoods in the process? TheGlasgowStory tells the story of Glasgow in words and pictures. It includes tales from some of Scotland’s best writers and is illustrated with thousands of images from the collections of the city’s world-famous libraries, museums and universities. Partners in this ground-breaking initiative led by HATII included Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries, Mitchell Library, Scottish Screen Archive, Scottish Enterprise Glasgow, Strathclyde University and Glasgow Caledonian University.

Heritage | Dualchas

www.glasgow.ac.uk/arts/ke/themes/heritage/historicgovan

Historic Govan

Partners:Historic Scotland, The Church of ScotlandAcademic:Prof Stephen DriscollContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:Between 2007 and 2009, Prof Stephen Driscoll was commissioned by Historic Scotland to evaluate the archaeological and architectural heritage of Govan as part of the government’s Burgh Survey programme. This study produced the first comprehensive mapping of Govan’s physical cultural heritage assets, which was published as Historic Govan (2009). Although part of a series aimed primarily at planners, Professor Driscoll and his team varied the format to make it more attractive to a popular audience. Professor Driscoll has also applied his expertise to interpret the history and meaning behind the sculptures of Govan’s church and was a primary contributor to its new display, known as the Govan Stones project, installed and launched in 2012.

Heritage | Dualchas

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Landscape Governance and Development

Partners:Recent and current collaborators include Northlight Herit-age, the Mediterranean Institute for Nature and Anthropos, ProGenus Environmental Ltd., the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) and the Landscape Research Group.

Academics:Dr Chris Dalglish, Dr Kenny BrophyContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:The College of Arts has an established track record in the fields of landscape policy and practice. With partners in Scotland and across Europe, the College engages with the landscape’s past in order to realise the environmental, social, cultural and economic benefits for the future.

The College’s MSc in Landscape: Integrated Research & Practice works with industry to train the next generation of landscape researchers and practitioners. PhD research has also been developed in collaboration with external partners to be both policy- and practice-orientated.

Many cross-discipline and cross-sector conferences and workshops help to set the agenda for innovative policy- and practice-orientated research.

Specific projects aim to develop new landscape governance and development philosophies and practices.

Heritage | Dualchas

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Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951

Group:Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)Website:http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/Contact: [email protected]

Project Overview:The project delivers the results of the first comprehensive study of sculpture between the Great Exhibition of 1851, and the Festival of Britain in 1951. This was the first authoritative study of sculptors, related businesses and trades investigated in the context of creative collaborations, art infrastructures, professional networks and cultural geographies.

The HATII-developed database is the main outcome of the research and contains over 50,000 records about sculptural practice, connected by means over 380,000 relationships. In collaboration with History of Art at the University of Glasgow, external partners on Mapping Sculpture included the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Henry Moore Institute. The Great Exhibition of 1851

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Mobilising MappingWebsite:http://m.sculpture.gla.ac.uk/Contact: [email protected]

Project Overview:The Mapping Sculpture database contains over 50,000 records relating to sculptural practice between 1851 and 1951. This includes information on around: 3,500 sculptors; another 2,750 related practitioners; 10,000 trades connected to sculpture; 15,000 objects; 125 art schools; 120 art societies; 1,300 exhibitions; 700 other events such as sculpture courses, lectures and discussions; some 16,000 addresses for artists and businesses; and about 350,000 relationships connecting these different types of record together.

Providing a new dimension to the original Mapping Sculpture project, Mobilising Mapping saw the development of innovative personalisation features, social media integration, and a novel web interface optimised for mobile phone access.

The launch of the mobile interface took place at the Mapping Sculpture conference held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London in 2011 and was promoted by means of in exhibitions and displays in the project’s partner institutions: ‘Mapping Sculpture: Meetings – Materials – Makers’ (V&A, November 2010-May 2011) and ‘Mapping the Practices of Sculpture’ (Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, October 2010-October 2011).

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www.glasgow.ac.uk/arts/ke/themes/heritage/namestudies/

Name Studies at the University of Glasgow

Partners:Education Scotland, Dollar Museum, Kinross MuseumWebsite: www.glasgow.ac.uk/stitContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:The AHRC-funded Scottish Toponymy in Transition (STIT) project aims to research and publish three volumes of the place-names of Kinross-shire, Clackmannanshire and Menteith, in addition to beginning research on the place-names of Berwickshire and Ayrshire.

The project team from the College of Arts is actively engaging the public with events such as place-name walks, talks to local history societies and exhibitions. The project is also working with Education Scotland to produce place-name resources for the school curriculum.

The College has particular expertise in the study of names (Onomastics) with a lively academic community researching place- and personal names throughout Scotland. Potential areas for future work include developing place-name apps and walks for the tourist industry.

Photo: Sauchie Tower by Kirsty McAlister

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Performing Arts Na h-Ealain Taisbeanail

In the College of Arts we make the performing arts matter. Our experts in theatre and music are world-leading practitioners, historians, critics and educators who are actively engaged with the performing arts locally, nationally and internationally. We work with music and theatre makers of all kinds to support their creativity and raise the profile of their work. We work with agencies and organisations to develop new processes and to influence policy making. We with work with audiences of all kinds to enhance public engagement and understanding. Be it supporting emerging artists on Glasgow’s vibrant live art scene or conducting amateur choirs in local music making, advising Scotland’s national performing companies on policies including archiving and internationalisation, curating or participating in music and theatre festivals of all kinds, researchers in the College of Arts are providing expertise, developing skills and adding value. We have world-leading knowledge and expertise in the history, theory and practice of music making and theatre making, musicology, dramaturgy, preservation and archiving, interpretation and public engagement, not least for older audiences and for children and young people. We are expert across the full range of periods of musical genres and theatre and performance traditions, with a commitment to and track record of working with artists and audiences in Scotland. Interconnecting with this multifaceted expertise is a critical understanding of creative working practices, artistic risk, ideas of collaboration, partnership and public accountability. Our researchers are themselves active in the performing arts as composers and musicians, performers and dramaturges, journalists, educators and organisational leaders.

This puts the College of Arts in a unique position to study and contribute to the performing arts from industry-relevant perspectives. Our interdisciplinary approach enriches our existing collaborative partnerships with Glasgow Life’s cultural infrastructure, Scotland’s national performing companies, other publicly-funded organisations including the repertory theatre sector, international music technology companies, artist-led micro businesses and other leading employers in the performing arts sector. It also helps to shape new partnerships that provide opportunities for innovative research and professional training through shared purpose and knowledge exchange between students, academics and industry professionals – for example, our work with jazz and pop musicians, the live art sector, playwrights and creative learning practitioners is supported by postgraduate Masters programmes as well as research initiatives and other bespoke training events. Our undergraduate and postgraduate students benefit from vocational and industry-focused learning, with placement opportunities with local, national and international performing arts companies and agencies. Such experiences enhance our students’ essential skills and knowledge – and feeds into our ongoing programmes of research with industry partners of all kinds. Our doctoral and postdoctoral research takes place in collaboration with performing arts partners, giving privileged access to leading practitioners and industry expertise and leads to research-informed contributions to organisational planning, local arts practices and high-level cultural policy. By attracting international high-calibre researchers to our excellent facilities at the University of Glasgow, all of our collaborative partners benefit from interdisciplinary knowledge exchange for cutting-edge professional advances and innovative research to answer real questions with real-world outcomes.

Performing Arts | Na h-Ealain Taisbeanail

www.glasgow.ac.uk/arts/ke/themes/performingarts/aldeburgh

Aldeburgh Residency

Project Partner: Aldeburgh MusicAcademic: Dr David McGuinnessContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:Purcell’s Revenge was the second Aldeburgh residency undertaken by Concerto Caledonia in March 2013. The programme was partly researched and the performing material prepared by a College of Arts student.

The residency involved an extended rehearsal period for a group of 11 early music specialists and traditional musicians at Snape Maltings in Suffolk. Besides the preparation for a public performance there, the group was involved in coaching the Britten-Pears Baroque Orchestra of emerging professionals and postgraduate students, and made an outreach trip to the traditional music community based around the Ship Inn, Blaxhall. After the performance, the group spent a further day recording material for an album to be released by Delphian. Concerto Caledonia in the Britten

Studio, Snape. Photo: Matt Parkin


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Live Music Exchange (LMX)

Website: http://livemusicexchange.orgAcademic: Prof Martin CloonanContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:Live Music Exchange (LMX) is a an online hub for promoters, musicians, agents, researchers, educators, journalists, bloggers, local authorities, venue staff, policy makers and anyone with an interest in the live music industries. The website is the one-stop-shop for information about the live music industries in the UK.

Initially funded by the AHRC, LMX is jointly hosted by the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. The website features regular blogs from industry personnel and opinion pieces by academics and others. Its services include training, mediation, events management and consultancy.

The project has involved collaboration with UK Music, Live Nation, the Scottish Music Industry Association, Edinburgh City Council, and Glasgow City Council.


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Scoring for TV and Film

Project Partner: Company PicturesAcademic: Dr David McGuinnessContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:David has been engaged as a music producer and composer on five series of the TV drama series Skins, made by Company Pic-tures for E4/Channel 4 and for MTV in the US, working with a vari-ety of artists including Gabrielle Aplin, Rae Morris, and the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain.

Music Performance students from the University, alongside stu-dents from Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Glasgow Acad-emy of Musical Theatre Arts, and the University-affiliated choir Madrigirls, have gained experience of media recording sessions.Most of the recordings are made in-house at the University, broadening staff skills in providing material for broadcast, and the music production processes have informed and directly contributed to the content of the Per-formance and Notation courses of the undergraduate Music programme.


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Sublimation (2010) and The Lady from the Sea (2012)

Project Partner: Scottish OperaAcademics: Zoë Strachan (Writer), Dr Nick Fells (Composer)Contact: [email protected]

Project Overview:There are two distinct collaborations that together form a narrative of linked work in contemporary opera libretti. Production and success of Sublimation, a short opera co-written with composer Dr Nick Fells (GU), led to a further commission for The Lady from the Sea, a full length opera with music by composer Craig Armstrong. Sublimation was selected to travel to South Africa for performance by Cape Town Opera. The Lady from the Sea had its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2012, as a key part of Scottish Opera’s 50th anniversary season.

Sublimation sold out at all its shows, to audiences totalling thousands of people. The production of The Lady from the Sea won a Herald Angel Award at the EIF 2012.

Image: Sublimation © Tommy Ga Ken Wan

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Visual ArtsNa h-Ealain Lèirsinneach

The College of Arts engages with the visual arts at local, national and international levels, building on Glasgow’s reputation as the largest centre for art collections in the UK outside London. Working primarily through History of Art - part of the School of Culture and Creative Arts - the College collaborates with museums to stage exhibitions, create major public catalogues, develop new technologies and acquire new works. Online and offline, the College helps to make sure that visual arts are seen in a new way, by everyone. The College works closely with the University’s Hunterian Museum and the Glasgow Museums, as well as with institutions further afield. Collaborative research projects have led to publications and highly popular public exhibitions, like the recent Rembrandt exhibition at the Hunterian Art Gallery in 2012. In the long term, student placement opportunities have allowed us to connect postgraduate students with institutions like the National Trust for Scotland and the Smithsonian Institute, Washington. As well as giving students valuable experience in the field of museums, historic houses and archives, we also encourage students to make their own contributions to the success of the institution. NICE Paintings and Your Paintings are two important projects in which the College is engaged, designed to increase public access to paintings on the web. In conjunction with the National Gallery, London and Birkbeck College London, we have helped to put more than 8000 European Nice Paintings from UK public

collections online so far. We also manage the research and tagging project for Your Paintings, which aims to show the entire UK national collection of 200,000+ oil paintings and tell their stories. Building on Glasgow’s status as a hub of experimental and creative activity, we are contributing to new developments in Technical Art History. By combining scientific analysis with expert interpretation, we are gaining new insights into historical painting techniques and materials, which helps to improve conservation techniques. We can also authenticate works more reliably than was possible in the past. In the contemporary art field, Glasgow is known not only for its leading artists and Turner prize-winners from the Glasgow School of Art, but also its fantastic platforms such as the Centre for Contemporary Art and The Common Guild. Outside Glasgow, we help public collections across Scotland to acquire and present challenging contemporary visual art through the National Collecting Scheme for Scotland, an initiative of Creative Scotland. By organising workshops and facilitating discussion, we also give curators an opportunity to extend their knowledge and understanding of contemporary visual arts, and to develop their engagement with the visual arts sector in Scotland. Through this varied work, we aim to engage with the wide spectrum of the visual arts through individuals and communities, and contribute to the vibrancy and vitality of cultural life in Glasgow, the UK, and beyond.

Visual Arts | Na h-Ealain Lèirsinneach

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An Investigation of the Bury Chest

Partner:The Burrell CollectionAcademic: Dr Erma HermensContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:A large oak chest in the Burrell Collection, Glasgow, is associated with Richard de Bury (1281-1345) and the office of the Court of Chancery of the Palatinate of Durham, where de Bury was Bishop from 1334-1345.

The project aims to gather technical data on the paints and traces of organic matter on the chest, which College of Arts academics helped to analyse. The paint layers show the use of two inorganic red pigments, possibly vermilion and lead, as well as indigo (woad) and chalk in the blue layer and Vergaut (orpiment and indigo) in the green layer.

These first results indicate that the paint layers are contemporary with the c.1340 date of the chest.


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Researching the Catalogue for the Lady Lever Art Gallery

Partner:Lady Lever Art GalleryAcademic: Prof Nick PearceContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:In 2009, National Museums Liverpool launched a new online Catalogue of the Chinese works of art collected by industrialist and philanthropist, William Hesketh Lever (1851-1925), which now form part of the Lady Lever Art Gallery collection at Port Sunlight.

Academics at the College of Arts undertook the research for the Catalogue. The Gallery’s comprehensive archive documents Lever’s collecting activities and allowed the team to trace individual pieces back to former owners, including such famous names as James McNeill Whistler, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Lord Leighton.

Fully illustrated and freely accessible online, (www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ladylever/collections/chinese/) the Catalogue includes individual entries on each object and contextual essays, providing its users with a greater understanding of Lever the collector and this part of his collection.


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National Collecting Scheme Scotland

Partner:Paisley Museum and Art GalleryAcademic: Dr Tina FiskeContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:Paisley Museum and Art Gallery is one of seven museums and galleries in Scotland which participated in the National Collecting Scheme Scotland between 2003-2013, helping the partners to acquire more than 200 works of contemporary art and craft.

Since 2007, Dr Tina Fiske has supported Andrea Kusel, Curator of Art at Paisley, to pursue further acquisitions of contemporary art, undertake research travel, and participate in a programme of studio and gallery visits and events organized by the College.

The scheme has provided Paisley with external funding to support their collection as well as offering peer networks to share and develop curatorial practice. The next stage, ‘Affiliate’, will provide a new phase of peer development activity for 2013-2015. Right: Francis Upritchard, Roman Plastic (Tree), 2005. © the artist. Image courtesy of Paisley Museum and Art Gallery.


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The Etchings Project

Website:http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.ukAcademic: Prof Margaret MacDonaldContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:The Etchings Project is a catalogue of the etchings of James McNeill Whistler, including a virtual exhibition. It contains many previously unknown etchings and identifies sitters and sites. It is fully annotated, illustrated, and linked to the online website of Whistler’s Correspondence.

The website is a major resource on 19th century art and the art market, and is accessed by art dealers, auction houses, curators, collectors, artists, students and public all over the world. Plans are now under consideration to extend the online website to include Whistler’s oil paintings and works on paper. Forthcoming exhibitions benefiting from this project include An American in London: Whistler and the Thames, travelling to London, Washington, and Japan in 2013-2014.


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National Inventory Research Project (NIRP)

Partner:National Gallery, LondonWebsite:http://vads.ac.uk/collections/NIRP/index.phpAcademic: Andrew GregContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:The University houses the National Inventory Research Project, which since 2003 has helped curators in over 200 museums across Britain research their Old Master paintings. The project is an initiative of the UK museum sector, for which the University has attracted over £800,000 in grants, employing over 30 trained art historians to undertake new research and create up-to-date records on over 9,000 paintings. The project outcomes are published on the Visual Arts Data Service as NICE Paintings: the National Inventory of Continental European Paintings and available through the BBC website Your Paintings. Research is thus disseminated worldwide, promoting museum collections and providing a resource for researchers, curators and the general public.


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Oil Painting Expert Network (OPEN)

Partner: Public Catalogue FoundationAcademic: Andrew GregContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:The College of Arts is the academic partner of the Public Catalogue Foundation (PCF) in its new project, OPEN. The Oil Painting Expert Network will allow members of the public, curators across the UK, and experts around the world to interact.

Curators will have the opportunity to ask a specially recruited network of experts and specialists from academia, museums and the art trade, as well as the public themselves, to make suggestions about information missing from their paintings, for example: attributions of authorship, sitters or locations.

Academics from the College of Arts, in collaboration with the PCF, will help to filter and redirect the results of these interactions.


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Into The Workplace

Partners include:Museums, galleries, historic houses and archivesAcademic: Liz HancockContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:Practical experience in the workplace is essential for today’s graduates. Through work placements and internships, History of Art and Museum Studies postgraduate students have completed tasks including cataloguing and photographing collections, enhancing databases and setting up Flickr sets for over 20 partner museums, galleries, historic houses and archives.

Additional outcomes have included creating surveys, collecting feedback from visitors, and assisting in or running events. History of Art’s partnership with organisations in Glasgow and further afield has not only provided students with the means to gain new skills and apply their knowledge in a professional work environment, but also contributed to the outcomes of the host institutions in a measurable way.


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Your Paintings TaggerPartner: Public Catalogue FoundationWebsite:http://tagger.thepcf.org.uk/Academic: Andrew GregContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:The pioneering crowd-sourcing project Your Paintings Tagger was developed by the Public Catalogue Foundation (PCF) in collaboration with the College of Arts.

The Tagger uses the skills and brainpower of the general public to generate descriptive tags for the 211,000 images of oil paintings in UK public collections on the BBC/PCF website Your Paintings (www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/). These tags allow Your Paintings to be fully searched and filtered by the content and style of the paintings.

Since its launch in 2011, the Tagger has attracted over 9,500 taggers who have generated nearly 4.2 million tags. Over 23,000 paintings have been tagged with an average of 30 descriptive terms and are ready for inclusion on Your Paintings.

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Writing & Publishing Sgrìobhadh agus Foillseachadh

Publishing is one of the UK’s great creative industries, and events like the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Book Week Scotland, and Glasgow’s Aye Write! make it a key part of Scotland’s cultural scene. The College of Arts contributes to this success in many ways. The College’s Creative Writing programme has been linked to some of Scotland’s greatest and most innovative writers such as Alasdair Gray, James Kelman, Louise Welsh and Zoe Strachan. Our graduates are found across the publishing sector, helping Scottish publishing to continue punching above its cultural weight in relation to the size of the country’s population, as it has done since the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. In response to the demands of students and employers, we have made sure that employability is embedded in our courses. Interns from the College work regularly with publishers and contribute to the profitability of the industry. Each year, Scottish publishers produce some 3000 titles, pay royalties to over 14,000 writers and account for a combined turnover of around £343m. Writers, publishers and booksellers face, of course, many challenges, but we are part of the conversation that will move publishing to a brighter future. We host and have close connections with the Association for Scottish Literary Studies, a full member of Publishing Scotland.

The College of Arts is keen to play its part in new developments to build better links between academic, business and governmental partners. This fulfils the recommendations of the then Scottish Arts Council in 2004, designed to improve competitiveness through technological innovations and investment in skills. Indeed, we are at the cutting edge of the IT revolution and its implications as one of the UK’s leading centres for Digital Humanities. It has been recognised that new media can transform people’s experience of older literature, as John Buchan’s The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) is adapted as an interactive novel. We are able to harness these opportunities and use new media to our advantage. We also have a large and growing network of international partners, many in the emerging markets of Asia. We are able to build on their enthusiasm for Scottish education, and indeed Scottish educational publishing, to strengthen those relationships and investments.

Writing & Publishing | Sgrìobhadh agus Foillseachadh

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Britské listy

Partner:The Britské listy Public AssociationAcademic: Dr Jan CulikContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:Dr Jan Culik edits and publishes the widely read Czech language journal Britské listy. This is a cultural and political journal, which currently has 2.9 million readers each year. Czech politicians and decision makers read the journal, a fact that has led to consultations between academics and top politicians. The website has also featured in contemporary Czech fiction.

The website for the journal appears in both Czech and English, the Czech version being the most popular. As it is widely known that the editor-in-chief is an academic in the University of Glasgow College of Arts, there is considerable recognition of and publicity for the institution in the country.


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Development of Gaelic Language Plan for the University of Glasgow

Partner:Bòrd na GàidhligGaelic Language Officer: Fiona DunnContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:The University of Glasgow was asked to prepare a Gaelic Language Plan for the University of Glasgow in 2011 under the terms of the Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act 2005. This is a fantastic example of cross-university collaboration meeting the needs of Government legislation. This official policy was launched in March 2013 and involves the development of Gaelic language and culture within the context of key functions identified by Bòrd na Gàidhlig, the national development agency for Gaelic, including: Communications, Staffing, Publications and Identity. In addition, the university will incorporate Gaelic into the Student Experience at Glasgow in a number of ways, to continue the work of the pioneering Gaelic Language Initiative established in 2009.


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The Road to Independence

Academic: Prof Murray PittockContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:The Road to Independence (Reaktion Books, Chicago University Press, 2008) is a highly successful book, which has influenced debate in Scotland and Catalonia about nationalism, encouraged and contributed to public discourse in both countries, and helped to promote a greater understanding of the issues around independence.

Since publication, the author has been a regular contributor to high-level debates in the media and a participant in governmental advisory groups discussing these issues.

Scotland’s First Minister, Alex Salmond, supported the book launch at the Scottish Parliament in 2008, and wrote the foreword to the Catalan edition, El camí cap a la independencia.


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Creative Writing in the College of Arts

Academic: Dr Elizabeth ReederContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:Elizabeth Reeder is a prolific writer of fiction, with two novels, and a number of short stories and radio broadcasts to her credit. She’s a lecturer in Creative Writing at University of Glasgow.

Her broadcasts for BBC Radio 4 include a Women’s Hour Serial, stories, and abridgements including Marilyn Robinson’s Gilead, Annie Proulx’s Bird Cloud and Paula Byrne’s The Real Jane Austen.

Elizabeth’s novel Ramshackle was shortlisted for the prestigious 2012 Saltire Prize, and widely – and favourably - reviewed; it is published by Freight Books, one of the wave of ‘indie’ presses through which some of the most exciting and innovative fiction is now being published.


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A Traveller’s Guide to Literary Scotland

Project Partners:VisitScotland, ASLSDownload:www.scotland.org/features/a-travellers-guide-to-

literary-scotland

Academic:Prof Alan RiachContact:[email protected]

Project Overview:In partnership with VisitScotland and the Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS), Alan Riach, Professor of Scottish Litera-ture produced a Traveller’s Guide to Literary Scotland. The guide won the 2011 Gold Award for Best Publication at the Chartered In-stitute of Public Relations PRide awards, and is available in printed form in all VisitScotland Information Centres and to download.

“The guide pinpoints the stunning settings for world-famous novels, the scenery that inspired poets and the birthplaces of some of the country’s most distinguished writers. It’s a treasure trove of information. From the highbrow to the child-friendly, the guide is useful for any-one curious about our story-tellers. It’s an ideal way to improve your knowledge of Scotland’s great literary and cultural offerings.” (Daily Record)


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e-Publishing and the College of Arts

Academic: Prof Jeremy SmithContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:Jeremy Smith is Professor of English Philology and Director of ArtsLab, the College of Arts’ dedicated facility for encouraging (among other things) grant capture and knowledge exchange. He is also currently College Lead in Digital Humanities, one of our interdisciplinary research networks.

Glasgow Digital Humanities (GDH) is one of the leading groupings of its kind in the UK, if not in the world.

Many of the projects associated with GDH flag the future in terms of e-publishing, and the College is keen to develop synergies with publishing houses looking to expand their portfolios in this area.


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Breaking Down the Barriers of Engagement with Writing

Academic: Zoe StrachanContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:Zoe Strachan is the author of three novels: Ever Fallen in Love, Spin Cycle and Negative Space, and has taught on the Glasgow Creative Writing Programme since 2003. Her short stories and essays have been included in numerous journals and anthologies, she contributes to various newspapers and magazines and her work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 3.As well as receiving numerous international fellowships, in recent years Zoe has engaged with interdisciplinary projects. She has collaborated on the exhibition and publication ‘I throw my prayers into the sky’ (Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia, Germany) and theatre productions with the Citizens Theatre and Oran Mor, Glasgow. Zoe’s most recent high-profile work has been in opera.Right: Claire Booth as Ellida in Zoe Strachan/Craig Armstrong's The Lady from the Sea. Image © Richard Campbell


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Reaching out to Industry with Student Placements in Translation Studies

Academic: Dr Georgina CollinsContact: [email protected]

Project Overview:The MSc in Translation Studies has been designed and approved with industry collaboration in mind. Translation industry experts, from members of organisations based in Scotland such as DNA Language, Glasgow, and freelance translators, have been invited to the College of Arts to deliver material to the students that they have designed themselves.Students benefit from the way in which the course successfully blends theoretical content with practice and industry contribution. In the future, students will be offered placements with translation organisations and relevant professions. Academics also hope to make the most of contacts within agencies such as The Word Gym in Scotland, and beyond. They also aim to develop relationships with publishers such as Canongate Books (Edinburgh) and Arcadia Books (London).

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