The Glasgow School of Art

Places of Creative Production: Understanding Scotland's Creative Economy Landscape
The Glasgow School of Art in association with AHRC, Scottish Funding Council and Creative Scotland invite you to a one-day conference exploring current and future connections between Higher Education and the Creative and Cultural sectors.

Keynote speaker: Sir Peter Bazalgette
The event will feature panel sessions with speakers from a range of public, private and HE/FE Institutions from across the UK, with a keynote speech from Sir Peter Bazalgette, author of the recently published Independent Review of the Creative Industries and current Chair of ITV.

Programme

09.45 – 10.00 
Registration 

10.00 – 10.15
Introduction and Welcome: Professor Tom Inns, Director, The Glasgow School of Art

10.15 – 11.00
Keynote Speech

Sir Peter Bazalgette, Chairman of ITV, author of UK Government’s 2017 Independent Review of the Creative Industries

11.00 – 11.15
Coffee

11.15 – 12.30 
Panel 1: The Scottish landscape in the context of UK support structures for HE & FE initiatives

Chair: Professor Tom Inns, Director, The Glasgow School of Art

Panellists:

• Professor Andrew Chitty, AHRC Creative Economy Champion

• Professor Deirdre Heddon, Academic Dean, University of Glasgow - Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities

• Dr. Siobhán Jordan, Director, Interface

• John Kampfner, CEO, Creative Industries Federation
  
  

12.30 - 13.30
Lunch 

13.30 – 14.45

Panel 2: Trajectories for Creative Talent from Scotland’s Higher and Further Education Institutions

Chair: Deborah Keogh, Knowledge Exchange Manager, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Panellists:

• Rachael Brown, CEO, Cultural Enterprise Office

• Dr Doris Eikhof, Deputy Director, CAMEo Research Institute, University of Leicester

• Clive Gillman, Director Creative Industries, Creative Scotland

• Sandra Gunn, Curriculum Director, City of Glasgow College  

14.45 – 15.00
Coffee

15.00 – 16.15
Panel 3: Higher/Further Education in the context of the ‘Place’ agenda in Scotland

Chair: Jean Cameron, Project Director, Paisley 2021 UK City of Culture Bid

Panellists:

• Professor Eric Cross, Dean of Cultural Affairs and Principal Investigator, Creative Fuse North East, Newcastle University

• Professor Irene McAra-McWilliam, Deputy Director (Innovation), The Glasgow School of Art

• Stewart Murdoch, Director of Leisure and Culture, Dundee City Council
  
  

16.15
Closing Remarks
Professor Tom Inns, Director, The Glasgow School of Art

16.45 – 18.00
Networking drinks reception and opportunity to view Glasgow International exhibitions in Reid Building. For exhibition programme visit www.gsa.ac.uk/visit