Audience Development and Communications for Festivals
Other
Kerr, G., Barnes, C., & Ali-Knight, J. (2022)
Audience Development and Communications for Festivals. [Course module]
Audience development and communications are vital in modern-day festival management. Audience development is also about retaining interest from existing audiences and growing ...
Starting a Festival
Other
Kerr, G., Barnes, C., & Ali-Knight, J. (2022)
Starting a Festival. [Course module]
Have you got an idea for starting a festival and are unsure where to begin? This toolkit will help you get started. The good news is that all leading festival curators have as...
Digital social events worked well for people living with dementia
Other
Kerr, G. (2022)
Digital social events worked well for people living with dementia. [Newspaper article]
Approximately 90,000 people in Scotland are currently living with dementia. This progressive disorder affects how the brain works; and our ability to remember, think and reaso...
Unlock & Revive: The ingredients needed to deliver accessible online cultural and heritage events that bring positive benefits to people living with dementia
Report
Stewart, H., Smith, S., Baxter, R., Ali-Knight, J., & Kerr, G. (2022)
Unlock & Revive: The ingredients needed to deliver accessible online cultural and heritage events that bring positive benefits to people living with dementia. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Napier University
Unlock & Revive is a multi-disciplinary action-research project that involves multiple partners. It is a highly collaborative project aimed at supporting the wellbeing of peop...
The ‘Senses Framework’: A relationship-centred approach to co-producing dementia events in order to allow people to live well after a dementia diagnosis
Journal Article
Stewart, H., Ali-Knight, J., Stephen, S., & Kerr, G. (2022)
The ‘Senses Framework’: A relationship-centred approach to co-producing dementia events in order to allow people to live well after a dementia diagnosis. Event Management, 26(1), 157-175. https://doi.org/10.3727/152599521X16192004803683
Dementia is a progressive disorder that affects how the brain works, and in particular the ability to remember, think and reason. It affects speech, mood, mobility, behavior a...
FameLab, cultural relations and 'going virtual' at the time of a pandemic
Report
Kerr, G. (2021)
FameLab, cultural relations and 'going virtual' at the time of a pandemic. London: British Council
EDITOR'S NOTES
This contribution by Gary Kerr, taking the example of one of the British Council’s flagship partnership programmes – FameLab – covers the notion and nature of s...
Four shades of science festival: a qualitative study exploring the business and management dimensions of science festivals in the United Kingdom
Thesis
Kerr, G. Four shades of science festival: a qualitative study exploring the business and management dimensions of science festivals in the United Kingdom. (Thesis)
University of Salford. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2725841
Science festivals are a global cultural phenomenon with at least 60 such festivals taking place across the UK every year. Science festivals fulfil a unique function within civ...
Dog filters & flower crowns: Using Snapchat as a Pedagogical Tool in Higher Education
Journal Article
Kerr, G., & Faulkner, S. (2020)
Dog filters & flower crowns: Using Snapchat as a Pedagogical Tool in Higher Education. Journal of Social Media for Learning, 1(1), 147-157. https://doi.org/10.24377/LJMU.jsml.vol1article393
Academics overwhelmingly value social media as a tool for enhancing student learning (Moran et al, 2011). Generally, academics use information technologies and social media to...
GCHQ Cyber Zone at Cheltenham Science Festival (Curator)
Exhibition / Performance
Kerr, G. GCHQ Cyber Zone at Cheltenham Science Festival (Curator)
[https://issuu.com/cheltenhamfestivals/docs/science_festival_2019_brochure]. 4 June 2019 - 9 June 2019. (Unpublished
Step into a fascinating digital world…come into the GCHQ Cyber Zone and see what it’s like to be a code cracker, ethical hacker and cyber security expert. Escape to cyber spac...
Science festivals: knowledge making an exhibition of itself.
Other
Kerr, G. (2017)
Science festivals: knowledge making an exhibition of itself
No abstract available.