Andrew Clark, a PhD student in Human Resource Management, was awarded a Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities research internship with BBC Radio Scotland which ran from January to April 2016.
The project sought an expert social researcher from across Scottish Graduate Schools to lead an in-depth and informative project examining the current coverage given by BBC Scotland to Traditional and Roots music, with a particular focus on the Celtic Connections festival.
Andrew brought his research skills, as well as knowledge and experience as a prize-winning Traditional musician to the project, and compiled a report with fifteen recommendations for practical implementation. He also engaged with ‘hands-on’ broadcasting during this time, producing content for a range of radio broadcasts and acting as studio manager for a live band-in-session for the BBC introducing initiative.
Andrew will be part of a delegation from the Scottish Oral History Centre who will be visiting and collaborating with the renowned Centre for Oral History and Digital Story Telling at Concordia University, Montreal. He will participate in a week-long intensive summer school for postgraduate students on theory and best practice of oral history, before presenting our research at the Association of Critical Heritage Studies Conference, also held in Concordia University.
The partnership with Concordia puts the Scottish Oral History Centre at the forefront of the best research currently being led in a range of fields, including socio-economic history and the growing field of deindustrialisation studies.