Freelance writer and researcher with a unique perspective on Scottish topics including:

Offshore safety

Campaigner for safety issues and corporate responsibility in the wake of the Piper Alpha disaster.


Traditional Scottish culture

Researcher, practitioner and teacher of traditional Scottish dance and music.
Example: North Atlantic Fiddle Convention, 2006

Specialist on James Scott Skinner

Created ground-breaking website on the life and work of the famous Scottish dancing master: www.abdn.ac.uk/scottskinner/

Publications include:
Fashionable Dancing – The Dance Manuals of James Scott Skinner, Northern Scotland, No 23, 2003 (107-116)
The Music of James Scott Skinner, Brio, Spring 2004

Scottish Art History

James Byres of Tonley, 18th century entrepreneur, antiquarian, architect. Byres masterminded the illicit removal of Poussin’s Seven Sacraments from Rome, replacing them with copies.
www.nationalgallery.org.uk/collection/features/poussin/default.htm

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