July 2016

Donald Ferguson

Donald Ferguson was Institute Secretary from 2002 - January 2021. He writes:

It's been such a privilege and pleasure to be part of the IASH community, and to meet so many wonderful people. Thank you all.

In this time of great change, I have taken advantage of an offer of Voluntary Severance to retire early from the University, and now I hope to do a variety of different things with the rest of my working life.
I'm always glad to hear from any former Fellows or colleagues, please click here for my gmail.

Christine Wilson MA FRSA

Christine is Director Research & Insight at the British Council. She has been with the British Council since 2004. She works on a programme to reinvigorate a portfolio of cross-sectoral research, to ensure that the knowledge and experience generated through 80 years of international working is accessible to stakeholders around the world. She leads the global Next Generation research programme, which aims to engage youth voices around the world and contribute to improved policy making. She also co-ordinates British Council responses on the Sustainable Development Goals.

Professor Jane Ohlmeyer

Jane Ohlmeyer, MRIA, is Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin and the Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity’s research institute for advanced study in the Arts and Humanities.  Since September 2015 she has served as Chair of the Irish Research Council, an agency that funds frontier research across 70 disciplines.  In 2014-15 she was the Parnell Fellow at Magdalene College Cambridge and a Visiting Professor at JNU in New Delhi and is currently the Yeats Visiting Professor at Sāo Paulo University in Brazil.

Professor Irene McAra-McWilliam

Irene McAra-McWilliam is Head of the School of Design and Director of Design Innovation at the Glasgow School of Art.

Before starting in Glasgow in September 2005, she was Professor and Business Fellow in Innovation at the Royal College of Art in London and Head of the Interaction Design Department. As Professor of Design Research at the University of Technology in Eindhoven, Netherlands, she examined ways in which technology can enhance community and social sustainability.

Dr Alison Elliot

IASH is a small glimpse of the kind of university we dream about, where people have time to think and to spark off each other and stretch and deepen our understanding of human achievements and endeavours.

Dr Alison Elliot