Hub for Creativity and Culture

Researchers in the Hub working under this theme investigate how new technologies and computational methods can be used to extend the possibilities for creative expression.
Research outputs in this area incorporate: digital artworks, audiovisual art, electronic literature, algorithmic composition, visual music and interactive artworks.

Featured projects:

• xCoAx International Conference
• Paisley Pearls
• Immersive (tbc)
• IDEEA Lab collaboration

The mediums of documentary and fiction film are embraced as research practices that not only reveal and explore complex cultural and psychological phenomena but that in the process question and expand the form of filmmaking practice itself, including forays into interactive documentary, virtual reality filmmaking and augmented reality.

Featured projects:

• Immersive
• ISO collaboration

Embedded participatory research-practice and curatorial work in place-making; creative methodologies of engaging communities affected by exclusion, poverty and displacement, researching precarious labour and peripheral locations, emphasis on role and value of arts and active citizenship, community pride and cultural heritage, community voices in social, cultural and organisational change.

Featured projects:

• RSE AHRC Award Regeneration and Waterfront Heritage Zones
• Creative Scotland Riverside Solidarity (Kosmala and Jeffery; PhDs: Parry, Sebastyanski, Gardiner, Koumpouzi, McCaffer)
• Collective Futures/Precarity in creative sphere (McGillivray, Kosmala)
• Resources of Hope AHRC/GCRF (Dharavi project - Parry, Jeffery)
• PAR in practice/research (McGillivray, Kosmala, Jeffery, Clark PhDs: Gardiner, Warner-McIntosh, McCaffer, McAndlish).
• Digital Commonwealth and #TransplantStories digital media cultures (McGillivray).

Researchers working under this theme investigate place-focused event and cultural policy; place-focused cultural regeneration, arts, cultural diplomacy and soft power and the leveraging of major and mega events for social benefit.  

Featured projects:

• Art, culture and soft power; British Council (McPherson, McGillivray & Mamattah)
• Cultural Diplomacy and Security; British Council (McPherson, Mamattah and Cifuentes)
• EventRights: EU (McGillivray, McPherson)
• Leveraging Parasport Events: Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Canada (McPherson, McGillivray)

Including digital and social media research, creative digital citizenship, digital inclusion and disruptive digital platforms, sport media.

Featured projects:

• Girls do Sport (McLaughlin)
• St Mirren TV (McLaughlin & McGillivray)
• #TransplantGames, North Lanarkshire Council (McGillivray, Mahon and McLaughlin)
• Digital Commonwealth, Big Lottery (McGillivray, McPherson, McCandlish).