Reports

Museums in the Metaverse: Audiences and Impact Report Glasgow, 2025. 32pp. (With Fergus Bruce).

‘stellar…light years ahead of others I see in Europe’-Sarah Kenderdine CorrFBA, Lausanne

Robert Burns and the Scottish Economy. The Pittock Report for the Scottish Government (University of Glasgow, launched 11 January 2020; debate on recommendations 21 January 2020, Holyrood. Featured in Burns 2025 Parliamentary debate.

Impact:

  • ‘Department of International Trade: ‘Fantastic’
  • ‘For the influence Burns has, and the commercial value he offers to Scotland, the Pittock Report is a great place to start’- Oliver Mundell MSP, Holyrood debate, 23 January 2025
  • Rachel Hamilton MSP (Con): ‘We just can’t miss an opportunity like this’
  • Willie Coffey MSP (SNP): ‘an absolute goldmine for policymakers and local businesses’
  • Joan McAlpine (then Convenor of the Culture, External Affairs and Europe Committee): ‘The high value of the scholarship in the report, in terms of both quantitative and qualitative analysis, has made policy makers at every level of government take note’.
  • Mike Duguid, Past President Robert Burns World Federation: ‘Your project on the economic impact of Burns was a masterpiece’

The Scottish Heritage Partnership Immersive Experiences Report (Glasgow, 2018)

Impact:

  • David Hopes, NTS, now Director, Leeds Museums: ‘In recent years, the National Trust for Scotland has been at the forefront of the use of immersive digitally-based technologies at three key sites – Culloden Battlefield, Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, and Bannockburn – to interpret complex stories in a meaningful way for a wide range of visitors. The research questions contained within the project, Immersive Technologies: Scottish Heritage Partnership, are of profound and immediate interest to the NTS as we seek to understand visitor impacts at these three properties, and develop new experiences across our portfolio of over 130 sites…The new thinking in the Immersive Heritage report around preferences is also influencing reinvestment at Culloden and plans to expand and refresh the immersive element of the visitor experience, a site with a turnover in excess of £5million annually.’

Alexander Stoddart: Cabinet Works and Studies (Bourne Fine Art, 2010)

Co-authored:

  • The Humanities in the UK Today: What is Going On? Higher Education Policy Institute, 2023.
  • University Civic Engagement in Europe. CIVIS Policy document for the European Commission.
  • Facing Our Past .National Trust for Scotland, 2021.