Dr Kathryn A. Burnett is Senior Lecturer in the Division of Arts and Media, University of the West of Scotland teaching across inter-disciplinary undergraduate and Masters programmes in Creative Arts Practice, Music and Media. With a background in social anthropology, sociology and cultural studies, Kathryn’s research interests include the mediatization and representation of remote and island spaces; identity, ecologies and place narratives of Scotland’s rural communities, coasts and islands; cultural work, precarity and creative enterprise; Scottish cultural heritage and arts contexts including Gaelic and Scots for applied creative practice; sustainable communities, resilience, development, entrepreneurship, cultural policy and the commons in small island, remote, peripheral and rural contexts. Kathryn is Co-Director of the Scottish Centre for Island Studies an interdisciplinary and international network for island studies and islandness with particular reference to Scotland's cultural, social and economic policy contexts and potential. Contact: kathryn.burnett@uws.ac.uk

Key current research focus includes:

• rural and remote places and lives, with specific reference to Scotland’s islands and issues of community, sustainability and enterprise;
• the mediatization and representation of Scotland with reference to alterity, heritage and negotiated identity;
• cultural work, enterprise, place and rural cultural industries.

To engage further with an island studies and remote rural research focus within Scotland as a collaborative, co-produced and community engaged activity.  In addition, I wish to undertake inter-disciplinary research collaboration with Scottish based HEIs, local authority agencies and SMEs as well as with international education providers and partners with interests in remote and rural cultures, island studies and critiques of Scottish identity, community and its mediatization.