Leading Scottish architect Robin Livingstone will lead a funded collaborative research project with The Glasgow School of Art and Historic Environment Scotland, delivering impactful research and activism in contemporary architecture and the built heritage environment.
Posted on: Dec. 05, 2025Robin Livingstone has been selected to lead a funded collaborative research project as part of an innovative partnership between The Glasgow School of Art and Historic Environment Scotland, with support from the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities. The award is for a practice-based inquiry into designing with heritage materials for sustainable, circular futures. Working with Dr Gina
The Glasgow School of Art joins five other universities to launch an initiative which aims to unlock potential for innovation and commerce across Scotland’s universities and colleges.
Posted on: Dec. 04, 2025The Glasgow School of Art has joined with five other universities to launch a pioneering initiative that will strengthen commercialisation and innovation across Scotland’s modern and smaller universities and the college sector. The move will make it easier for Scotland’s universities to commercialise research, which has the potential to improve people’s lives, strengthen key economic sectors in Scotland, and reform
Bruce Peter, Professor of Design History at the Glasgow School of Art, wins Scotland’s Research Book of the Year for ‘Art Deco Scotland: Design and Architecture in the Jazz Age’.
Posted on: Nov. 20, 2025Bruce Peter, Professor of Design History at The Glasgow School of Art, has won the Research Book of the Year at The Saltires, Scotland’s National Book Awards, for Art Deco Scotland: Design and Architecture in the Jazz Age. Presented at an award ceremony in Edinburgh on Wednesday, 19th November, the Saltire judges described the quality of research demonstrated by Prof.
The Glasgow School of Art launches GSA RURAL LAB: A global leader in research, innovation, education and enterprise for rural economies.
Posted on: Apr. 10, 2025The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) today, Thursday 10 April, launches GSA Rural Lab, a pioneering interdisciplinary research centre at the GSA Highlands & Islands campus near Forres, Moray. The initiative explores the intersections of research, innovation, education, and enterprise to drive sustainable economic growth and cultural transformation in rural spaces. Building on a 20-year impact of placed-based research,
Art Deco Scotland: Design and Architecture in the Jazz Age – exhibition and major new book, researched and curated by Professor of Design History at The Glasgow School of Art, celebrates the history and legacy of Art Deco in Scotland
Posted on: Mar. 07, 2025Art Deco Scotland: Design and Architecture in the Jazz Age is an exhibition of images, ephemera, a film and textual interpretation across nine themes through which the Art Deco style appeared during the inter-war period in Scotland. The exhibition will run in the Reid Gallery Corridor at The Glasgow School of Art from 5th till 28th April, and is part
The Glasgow School of Art plays major role in £11 million Medical Research investment.
Posted on: Jun. 03, 2024 The Glasgow School of Art will have a major technological role to play with one of UKRI’s newly established Manufacturing Research Hubs. This critical mass investment will support a ground-breaking Industry 5.0 Medicines Manufacturing Research programme delivered by the new EPSRC MediForge Hub. This £11million, 7-year award will be led by the University of Strathclyde in collaboration with The
Patient’s family praise world-first cleft palate technology
Posted on: May. 24, 2023A family have praised ‘amazing’ new world-first technology which uses augmented reality to explain complex procedures to patients and their families. The Cleft Lip Education Augmented Reality (CLEAR) project, which is the first of its kind anywhere in the world, is currently being trialled in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and is receiving positive reviews for its interactive interface, which
Media Release: The Glasgow School of Art’s world-leading research recognised
Posted on: May. 12, 2022 Almost 90% of GSA research impact categorised as of international significance in 2021 REF The Research Excellence Framework (REF), the periodic, independent assessment of research undertaken across 157 UK’s universities, published its 2021 outcomes today (12 May 2022). Overall, 82% of the GSA’s research was assessed to be world-leading and internationally excellent, a major improvement from the last REF (2014)
NEWS: £14.5m research project aimed at transforming exploration of culture and heritage collections through AI announced
Posted on: Sep. 22, 2021The Glasgow School of Art’s School of Simulation and Visualisation is a partner in Unpath’d Waters, one of five “Discovery Projects” that are to benefit from £14.5m investment from The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The research projects aim to transform exploration of culture and heritage collections through AI Unpath’d Waters will devise new ways of searching across collections, visualising underwater landscapes,
NEWS RELEASE: GSA research project leads to targeted business support for Creative Businesses in Argyll and Bute
Posted on: Apr. 28, 2020Dr Michael Pierre Johnson working on a previous research project in Bristol Research undertaken by the GSA’s Innovation School with Culture, Heritage & Arts Assembly Argyll & Isles (CHARTS) is exploring how a network of micro clusters could be used to deliver bespoke business development support Finance secured from Creative Scotland’s targeted Covid-19 support funds. Creative workers, enterprises, venues and organisations across