Gayle McPherson

Personal profile

Area of academic expertise - outline

My interests revolve around the public policy interventions of the local and national state in events and festivity of all types and the social and cultural impact of sport events and culture on communities. I am also interested in the role of art, sport and culture in creating soft power change through cultural diplomacy, both through state and non-state actors. I am a member of the UK Soft Power Group run by the British Foreign Policy Group. I continue to act as and Advisor the OECD on Global Events and Local Development. I also hold the role of the Director of the Centre for Culture, Sport and Events at UWS

Current research activities

I am currently a co-investigator on an SSHRC international collaborative research project Leveraging Parasport Events: for sustainable community participation. This has produced a series of outputs in public policy, impact and media analysis of parasports representations. I am currently the Principal Investigator on a British Council project examining Cultural Heritage for Inclusive Growth in Kenya. I'm also a co-I on Festspace HERA funded 3 year research project on the role of festivals and events in public and civic spaces

Overview

Research areas: GV recreation Leisure - mega events, cultural policy, cultural diplomacy, sport, disability, digital media

Desired research direction

My future research will continue to focus of the social and cultural impact of mega events on communities and on their role in leveraging wider impact. I will develop further how mega events contribute to creating public value and how these can or are being used for progressive opportunity. I will continue my work in cultural diplomacy and sport diplomacy having taken on more PhD students in this area and I am interested in looking at cities who failed to win City of Culture titles and what they do next.

Other areas of expertise available for knowledge exchange

I have expertise and experience of monitoring, evaluation and impact of arts, culture and sport and have worked for a range of agencies. Recently these have included: Creative Scotland, British Council, Renfrewshire Council and the OECD. I have expertise in events, sport and cultural diplomacy impact evaluation and transformational change.

External positions

Visiting Professor, Institute for Cultural Diplomacy

1 Mar 2014 → …

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Research Output

Arts and culture: tools of peace in Rwanda

Moore, A. T., McPherson, G. & Mamattah, S., 10 May 2019.

Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

Co-creating, co-producing and connecting: museum practice today

McPherson, G. & Barnes, P., 30 Apr 2019, In : Curator: The Museum Journal. 62, 2, p. 257-267 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

1 Citation (Scopus)

Making change towards inclusive societies: the soft power of community archaeology in building cultural heritage in Mozan, Syria

Moualla, Y. & McPherson, G., 28 Aug 2019, In : Sustainability. 11, 17, 16 p., 4670.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

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1 Citation (Scopus)

126 Downloads (Pure)

Repurposing the (super)crip: media representations of disability at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games

McGillivray, D., O'Donnell, H., McPherson, G. & Misener, L., 6 Jun 2019, In : Communication and Sport. 30 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

File

2 Citations (Scopus)

177 Downloads (Pure)

A Review of the Contribution of Arts & Culture to Global Security & Stability

McPherson, G., Mamattah, S., Moore, A., Cifuentes, G. & Moualla, Y., 2 Oct 2018, University of the West of Scotland. 76 p.

Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

Prizes

Research Impact Award - Gold Medal

McPherson, Gayle (Recipient) & McGillivray, David (Recipient), 3 Apr 2014

Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

Activities

3 Participation in conference
1 Participation in workshop, seminar, course
1 Consultancy

The Contribution of Art and Culture to Global Security and Stability

Gayle McPherson (Consultant) & Sophie Mamattah (Consultant)

Feb 2018 → Jul 2018

Activity: Consultancy

UK Government Committee on Soft Power

Gayle McPherson (Invited speaker)

11 Oct 2017

Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference

The Challenges of Evaluating Soft Power, Cultural Diplomacy and Cultural Relations

Gayle McPherson (Keynote/plenary speaker)

Jun 2017

Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference

Battle of Ideas. Can Culture Save the City?Institute of Ideas, London and University of the West of Scotland

Katarzyna Kosmala (Invited speaker), Carlton Brick (Organiser), Gayle McPherson (Invited speaker), Pauline Hadaway (Invited speaker), Christine Hamilton (Invited speaker) & Alistair Donald (Chair)

28 Nov 2017

Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course