Staff
Kathryn A. Burnett
MA (Hons), MSc, PhD, PGCE
Senior Lecturer in Media & Culture
kathryn.burnett@uws.ac.uk
Tel: 01292 886482
Fax: 01292 886371
Room: D206
Research and Teaching Interests
Teaching from a cross-disciplinary perspective
across sociology, social anthropology, media and cultural studies,
particular areas of research interest include a focus on the sociology of
community and identity; the
politicisation of cultural resources as mediated texts; sociology of the body;
sociology of heritage and the sociology of place with particular reference to
broadcasting and media debates on representational form, discourse and ideology
that constructs ‘localness’, marginality and peripherality.
Background: Academic Education
2004 University of the West of Scotland, PGCE Research Degree Supervision
1997
Glasgow Caledonian University, Doctorate in
Philosophy
PhD Thesis Title: Negotiating Home: Categorisation
and Representation of Identity among Indigenous and Incoming People of Uist, in
the Outer Hebrides (Director of Studies Dr D Forbes and Supervisor Dr N. Blain;
Examined by Professor A.P. Cohen
1992
University of Strathclyde, MSc Tourism
MSc Thesis Title: Tourism on the Side: A Discussion
of Alternative Tourism Development in Peripheral Rural regions with special
reference to the Outer Hebrides, Scotland
1990
University of
Aberdeen, MA Hons Sociology and Social Anthropology
Dissertation Title: From the Dark Seed Bed. A Study
of the process of Conscientization and Resistance as found in the Performing
Arts: the example of Jamaica
Doctoral Supervision
Current and recent research degree supervision of
students examining a range of Scottish and European based interests, including: Peripherality and Scottish Tourism
Strategy, City Place Image marketing; Visual Research Practice; Cultural Policy,
Arts and National Identity.
Current Research Projects
- Feis Film nan Eileanan Beaga /Small Islands Film Festival
- Island Cultural Archives
- Scottish Centre for Island Studies
Research Publications and Practice Outputs:
Burnett, K.A. (2009) 3rd Small Islands Film Festival, (2009)
Benbecula, Western Isles and Islay, Argyll & Bute., University of the West
of Scotland in association with Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Isle of Skye, Dicuil
Institute, Isle of Benbecula, Scottish
Screen, Ionad Chaluim Chille, and Homecoming Scotland.
Burnett, K.A. (2009) Organizer: Islands and Islanders — A
International Symposium on Scotland's Contribution to Island Cultural
Representations, 18 June 2009, Kildonan, South Uist, University of the West of
Scotland in association with Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Isle of Skye, Dicuil Institute, Isle
of Benbecula.
Burnett, K.A. and Grace, T. (2009) ‘Community, Cultural Resource and Media: Reflecting on
Research Practice’ in Gordon, J. (Ed), “Notions of Community”: an edited
collection of community media debates, Peter Lang Books, Oxford, UK
Burnett, K.A. (2008),
2nd Feis Film nan Eileanan Beaga /Small Islands Film Festival
(2008), Islay, Argyll & Bute, University of the West of Scotland in
association with Sabhal
Mòr Ostaig, Isle of Skye, Dicuil Institute, Isle of Benbecula, Scottish Screen and Ionad Chaluim Chille
Burnett, K.A. and Blain, N. (2008) ‘A cause still unwon: the struggle to
represent Scotland’ in Blain, N. Hutchison, D. (Eds) The Media in
Scotland, Edinburgh: EUP ISBN 9780749628001
Burnett, K.A. (2007-08) AHRC Funded Knowledge Transfer: “Island Cultural
Archives” Programme of Research Workshops and Associated
Dissemination, University
of the West of Scotland in association with Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Isle of Skye, Dicuil
Institute, Isle of Benbecula, Centre
for Visual Research -University of Dundee, Department of Film and Media,
University of Stirling.
Burnett, K.A. (2007) Inaugural
Feis Film nan Eileanan Beaga / Small Islands Film Festival (2007), Eriskay,
Western Isles University of the West of Scotland in association with Sabhal Mòr Ostaig,
Isle of Skye , Dicuil Institute, Isle of Benbecula, Scottish Screen, and Year of Highland
Culture.
Burnett, K.A. and Danson, M. (2006) 'Food, rurality and heritage: a study
of Scottish discourses of culture, development and enterprise.' in
Nordic-Scottish University Network for Rural and Regional Development,
University of Akureyri, Iceland ISBN: 9979 834 52 8
Burnett, K.A. and Danson, M. (2004) ‘Adding or
Subtracting Value?: rural enterprise, quality food promotion and Scotland's
cluster strategy’, International Journal of
Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research 10(6): 381-403 ISBN
1355-2554
Burnett, K.A. (2003) ‘The Taste of Scotland: reimagining
rural Scotland through food., in Pihlainen, K. and E. Tirkkonen (eds.) Rustica Nova: The New Countryside and Transformations
in Operating Environment, Institute of History: University of
Turku, Finland ISBN 951-29-2318-1
Burnett, K.A. (2003) ‘Taste of Tradition: a critical
examination of the relationship between heritage, food and tourism promotion in
Scotland.’ In, Local Food and Tourism, World
Tourist Organisation/CTO Larnaka, Cyprus. ISBN: 92-844-0613-7
Burnett, K.A. and Holmes, M. (2001) Bodies, Battlefields
and Biographies: scars and the construction of the body as heritage in S.
Cunningham-Burley & K. Backett-Milburn (editors) Exploring the Body, Basingstoke:
Macmillan ISBN 0-333-77596-1
Burnett, K.A. (2001) ‘Heritage, Authenticity and
History’, in S. Drummond & I. Yeoman (eds.) Quality Issues in Heritage Visitor Attractions London:
Butterworth Heinemann ISBN 0 7506 4675 6
Burnett, K.A. and Danson, M. (2000) ‘Arts and Culture in
Regional Development in Scotland’, Welsh
Economic Review Vol. 12 (2): 39-42 ISBN: 0965-2450
Burnett, K.A (1998) ‘Local Heroics: reflecting on
incomers and local rural development discourses in Scotland’, Sociologia Ruralis Vol. 38(2): pp.
204-224 ISSN 0038-0199
Burnett, K.A. and Nuttall, M. (1998) The negotiation and
management of crisis in the Scottish fishing industry: a case study from north
east Scotland , pp. 238-246, in
D. Symes (ed.) Northern Waters: Management
Issues and Practice . Oxford: Blackwells. ISBN 0-85238-257-X
Burnett, K.A (1998) How to win friends and influence
people, pp. 141-149, in E. Breitenbach and A. Howson (eds.) Gender and Scottish Society , Edinburgh:
Unit for the Study of Government in Scotland
Burnett, K.A (1996) Once an Incomer, always an Incomer?,
pp. 18-31, in P. Chapman & S. Lloyd (eds.) Woman and Access in Rural Areas Aldershot: Avebury. ISBN 1
85972 291 1
Refereed Conference papers related to ongoing research interests:
Burnett, K.A.
and Grace. T. (2008) ‘Knowing this place: research exchanges at the Kildonan
Museum, Isle of South Uist.’ AHRC Funded Research on Island Cultural Archives
Screening, Museum Ethnographers Group, University of Oxford, April 2008
Burnett,
K.A. and Grace, T. (2008) ‘Island Cultural Landscape: a practice-based
approach’, AHRC Funded Research on Island Cultural Archives MECCSA, School of Journalism Media and
Cultural Studies Cardiff
University, January 2008
Burnett,
K.A. (2007) ‘Remote Corners: squaring rurality and heritage through a critical
examination of cultural resource discourse in Scotland.’ SIN AM FEARANN CAOIN/
This is the Pleasant Land Conference on ‘Heritage and the Environment’ jointly
organised by Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Isle of Skye and Heritage Futures, Glasgow
Caledonian University June 19th to
June 22nd 2007, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK
Burnett,
K.A. and Blain, N. (2007) ‘BBC's Restoration: building history through televisual text’, History
and the Public, Swansea
University (Wales, UK), 12 - 14 April 2007
Burnett,
K.A. and Danson, M. (2005) 'Food, rurality and heritage: a study of Scottish
discourses of culture, development and enterprise.' Nordic-Scottish University
Network for Rural and Regional Development, Conference, University of Akureyri,
Iceland September 2005
Burnett,
K.A. and Blain, N (2005) Rebuilding the place of identity: heritage, and the
fashioning of history and locality in the BBC’s Restoration, MeCCSA AMPE January
2005
Burnett,
K.A. and Burnett, R. (2004) Scotland's Polar Explorers: Mediating the Local and
the National in Heritage Narratives and Representation. The Politics of
Cultural Memory, MIRIAD/CULTURAL MEMORY AND ETHICS Conference Manchester
Metropolitan University, November 2004
Burnett,
K.A. and Burnett, R (2004) Scottish Polar Exploration and the Representation of
National Heroic Endeavour (1880 –1914), Visual Culture and Taste in late
Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Centre for Visual Culture in Britain, University of Northumbria
Burnett,
K.A. and Patrick Tierney, David Barkin, Deborah J. Chavez and Julian Miranda
(2003) ‘ Leisure Travel, Vacations, Constraints and Visitation to Natural Area
Attractions: A Comparison of Residents of Barcelona, Glasgow, Los Angeles and
Morelia, Mexico’ The 4th Social
Aspects and Recreation Research Symposium Linking People to the Outdoors:
Connections for Healthy Lands, People and Communities February 4-6, 2004
Presidio of San Francisco, Golden Gate National Recreation Area and San
Francisco State University
Burnett,
K.A. and Danson, M. (2003) Adding or Subtracting Value?: rural enterprise,
quality food promotion and Scotland's cluster strategy Reinventing Regions in a
Global Economy RSA Conference, Pisa, Italy
Burnett,
K.A. and Drummond, S. (2003) Festivals and a’ that: critical reflections on the
development and management of Scotland’s cultural resources. Journeys of
Expression II: Cultural Festivals/Events & Tourism, IFEA, Vienna, Austria
Burnett,
K.A. and Burnett, R. (2002) Archiving Cultural Resources and the Mediation of
Island History: the case of Eriskay, Scotland. Islands of the World VII Conference, University of Prince Edward
Island, Canada
Burnett,
K.A. (2000) Island at the Edge: perceptions of community, identity and change
on Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, British Sociological Conference
University of York, England
Burnett,
K.A. and Danson, M. (2000) Arts & Culture in Regional Development in
Scotland, WERU, University of Cardiff
Burnett,
K.A. (2000) Taste of Tradition: a critical examination of the relationship
between heritage, food and tourism promotion in Scotland. Local Food and
Tourism, Cyprus Tourist Organisation, Larnaka, Cyprus.
Burnett,
K.A. (1999) The Taste of Scotland: reimagining rural Scotland through food.
Rustica Nova International Conference of Rural Studies, Somerniemi, Somero,
Finland
Burnett,
K.A. and Burnett, J. (1999) Europe and the mediation of regional identity: a
view from Scotland’s margins. Regional Studies Conference, University of the
Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain
Burnett,
K.A. and Burnett, R. (1999) The "Columba Initiative" - Cultural
Tourism Contributing to Sustainable Development And Creating Links Between
Deprived, Marginal and Peripheral Communities In Gaelic Scotland and Ireland’,
International Institute for Peace through Tourism, Session: INTERNATIONAL
UNDERSTANDING & COLLABORATION Third Global Conference, Glasgow, Scotland
Burnett,
K.A. and Burnett, R. (1999) ‘A Couch without Sorrow’: Cultural Initiatives,
Marginalised Communities and the Periphery in Gaelic Scotland & Ireland,
3rd Global Conference for Peace Through Tourism, Glasgow
Burnett,
K.A. and Holmes, M. (1998) ‘Bodies, Battlefields and Biographies: scars and the
construction of the body as heritage’. British Sociological Conference University of
Edinburgh, Scotland
Burnett,
K.A. and Holmes, M. (1998) ‘A Mark of Interest: using scars to construct
embodied autobiographies'. BSA Auto/biography Study Group Conference, Derby,
England
Burnett,
K.A. and Mooney, E.A. (1998) Inclusion and Exclusion: negotiated identities and
the sense of 'home’, RESSG Conference, England
Burnett,
K.A. (1995) Sustainable Tourism: Sensitive to 'who' as well as 'what',
Societies in Transition, Edinburgh
Burnett,
K.A. (1995) ‘Rat race escapees or rural resource? Representations of Hebridean
Incomers, Scotland’. XVI Congress of the European Society for Rural Sociology,
Prague, Czech Republic
Burnett,
K.A. and Blain, N. (1994) “Otherness as Englishness: the White Settler
Phenomenon in the Scottish Media” European Film and Television Studies
Conference, London, England
Burnett,
K.A. (1994) Understanding Harmony: Exploring Representations of Scottish Rural Living Proceedings of the British Psychological Society 3
(1) p.23 ISSN 1350-472X
Burnett,
K.A. (1993) Harmony Galore? Perception and Social Representations of Scottish Rural Identity,
Proceedings of the British Psychological Society 3 (1) pp.65-66 ISSN 1350-472X
Burnett,
K.A. (1992) Challenging Rural Representations through participation &
knowledge” Proceedings of the British Psychological Society 4 (1) p. 56 ISSN
1350 472X
Burnett,
K.A., Forbes, D. and Blain, N. (1992) Social Identity Formation in a Scottish
Rural Community, Proceedings of the British Psychological Society 1, p.52 ISSN
1350-472X