Professor in Arts and Media Practice in the School of Business & Creative Industries, UWS. Director, UWS Protracted Crisis Research Centre. Graham's work spans participatory and community arts practices, creative pedagogies, cultural policy and urban and community development. Between 2019 and 2023 he was Principal Investigator on a three year British Academy/GCRF funded project: Waste, Water and Wellbeing: lessons from the interface of formal/informal urban systems in Dharavi, Mumbai.  Graham has also worked as a teacher, composer and facilitator in a wide range of contexts, including work with London International Festival of Theatre, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and East London Dance, as well as in policy advice and consultancy with CapeUK, Creative Scotland and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.  He has led numerous action research projects with diverse communities in different places around the world. He keeps a blog at www.generalpraxis.org.uk.

Turning the Tide: a Creative Europe funded network exploring public and participatory arts practices designed to tackle the climate emergency across a network of European riverfront cities (2023 - 2026)

British Academy/GCRF: Waste, Water and Wellbeing: lessons from the interface of formal/informal urban systems in Dharavi, Mumbai (2019 - 2023), with colleagues at UWS, Bath Spa University, IIT Mumbai, and ACORN Foundation, India

AHRC/GCRF: Rethinking Waste and the Logics of Disposability: Compound 13 Lab (2018 - 2020), with Bath Spa University, Shiv Nadar University and ACORN Foundation, India

AHRC Connected Communities programme: Remaking Society (2012 - 2014) and Challenging Elites: rethinking disconnection and recovering urban space (2015 - 2016)

AHRC: Resources of Hope: giving voice to underprivileged communities in India: follow-on funding for impact and engagement (with Coventry University, Bath Spa University, & Shiv Nadar University, Delhi) 2016 - 2017

Royal Society of Edinburgh: Research networking grant (Co-I with Prof Katarzyna Kosmala and PhD candidate Roman Sebastyanski): Regeneration of Waterfront Heritage Zones and Community Participation: Govan-Gdansk exhange: conferences, workshops, presentations and an edited collection of articles. 2015 - 2017

arts and media organisations in Scotland, the UK and internationally

central and local government in Scotland, the UK,  and European cultural policy networks

experimental artist-led organisations working in challenging/marginal contexts

arts education, creative pedagogies, cultural & educational policy, social inclusion, arts, health & wellbeing, practice-based methods, urban studies, reflective practice/autoethnography, artist/teacher professional development, music cultures, community & participatory arts, interdisciplinary practices, organisational culture & leadership, regeneration & community development, participatory action research.