funding | commissions

Oct 2008: Impact Workshop grant, Arts and Humanities Research Council and Arts Council England for project: Experiencing arts and culture. Understanding and measuring quality in physical and virtual environments. Amount awarded: £12,465.

Apr 2008: Fieldtrip grant, Universities' China Committee in London for project: Cultural Programming at the Beijing Olympics, involving fieldwork during the Beijing Games in August 2008. Amount awarded: £1,950

Aug 2007: Fellowship in Impact Assessment, AHRC/ESRC, for project: Cultural sustainability? Liverpool 2008: the theory and practice of cultural policy, involving one Research Fellow to research the 'value of space and place' and one PhD Studentship to research 'the value of the creative industries'. Research led by Dr Beatriz Garcia, Dr Steven Miles and Dr Alan Southern. Amount awarded: £330,000

Dec 2005: Small Research Grant, The British Academy, for project:
Towards London 2012: Non-accredited Media, Cultural Discourses, and Olympic Host City Identity, comprising fieldwork at the Turin Winter Olympic Games (February 2006), pre-Olympic Beijing (September 2006) and regular observations with the London Organising Committee for the 2012 Olympic Games. Amount awarded: £7,474

March 2004: Overseas Conference Grant,The British Academy to attend
The 3rd International Conference for Cultural Policy Research (Montreal, August 2004) and present the paper "Local Roots for a Universal Event? Exploring the value of city-specific cultural policies in the context of the Forum Barcelona 2004". Amount awarded: £456

Dec 2003: Small Research Grant, The British Academy, for project:
"From Athens 2004 to London 2012: the contribution of non-accredited media centres to the Olympic Games host city" undertaken in Athens during the Olympic Games (2-28 August 2004). Amount awarded: £3,320

October 2001: Post-graduate Grant for Study in the United States, Fulbright Scholarship, Spain - United States of America
(withdrawal due to accepting post as Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow.The amount to be awarded was: £23,800)

March 2001: Postgraduate research grant, for project:
"The Cultural Policy of the Olympic Movement. A Review of Cultural Agendas and Structures in the IOC" Olympic Museum - International Olympic Committee, Lausanne, Switzerland. Amount awarded: £1,685

May 2000: IOA Grant to attend the 28^th Postgraduate Olympic Research Seminar at the International Olympic Academy, Greece.
Value of the grant: £707

July 2000: Grant to support Olympic Research by Centre for Olympic Studies at Universitat Autònoma Barcelona, Spain.
Amount awarded: £500

March 1999: UAB Mobility Grant: PhD studies at University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. Amount awarded: £1,000 plus fees.

1996-1997: Erasmus Grant: Honours year of BA in Advertising & Public Relations at Napier University, Edinburgh, UK. Amount awarded: £2,000