A politician from Forres has lodged a motion at Holyrood highlighting a move to address regional inequalities and underrepresentation in higher education.<\/p>\n
Scottish Green MSP for the Highlands and Islands, Ariane Burgess, welcomes the announcement that The Glasgow School of Art – whose School of Innovation and Technology is at Blairs Farm Steading, Altyre – has secured funding for Scotland\u2019s rural creative economy.<\/p>\n
Green MSP for Highlands and Islands, Ariane Burgess.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cThe Glasgow School of Art\u2019s vision for a distributed doctoral college will not only strengthen our creative industries but also ensure that people from all parts of Scotland have access to world-class research opportunities.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m proud to lodge a motion in parliament recognising this important step forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
The initiative, titled \u2018A Golden Thread: Crafting the Creative Economy from Scotland\u2019s Highlands, Lowlands and Islands\u2019, will support 20 PhD researchers from rural and island communities.<\/p>\n
The funding, awarded through the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council\u2019s Doctoral Focal Awards programme, will enable the creation of a new doctoral training college in partnership with the Open University and Scotland\u2019s Rural College (SRUC).<\/p>\n
The rural creative economy is predominantly a women-led industry that contributes an estimated \u00a370 million annually to the Scottish economy.<\/p>\n
The Glasgow School of Art campus at Altyre Estate, Forres. Picture by Beth Taylor<\/p>\n
Focused on the craft sector, the programme will embed enterprise, innovation, and wellbeing into doctoral training, aiming to drive inclusive economic growth and cultural enrichment throughout Scotland\u2019s rural regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A politician from Forres has lodged a motion at Holyrood highlighting a move to address regional inequalities and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,51,5554,918,4884,1501,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-337887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-community","11":"tag-glasgow","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115014670027134779","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}