I successfully earned my PhD in July 2019. The title of my thesis is "Bidding for City of Culture status: revealing hidden heritage through creative research methods and the role of digital cultural asset mapping"
My research was practice-based, I produced a digital cultural asset map which explored the cultural assets of Renfrewshire, and worked with community groups to explore cultural assets through creating cognitive maps, and digital storytelling. This page offers a taster of some of the activities which I carried out during the PhD process, 2015 -2018.
Prize winning Research Poster
I created a poster which summarised my research for the University of the West of Scotland Student Research Conference 2017, This won the best poster award, and is embedded below as a slideshare:
International Conference Presentation
I have presented this research at the 22nd International Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies; Vienna (November 2017)
Our Shared Heritage: IHBC Annual School Invited Speaker
I was an invited speaker at the IHBC Annual School 2018, under the theme of "Our Shared Heritage", where I presented my PhD research and shared examples of my freelance work. This is a national conference, attended by built heritage specialists, academics, students, practitioners and suppliers.