https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7180-7686
Gina’s research is concerned with landscape, time, hauntology and photography. She actively collaborates with practitioners from different disciplines; walking, thinking and practising with others. Gina’s practice-based research seeks to develop transdisciplinary understandings of landscape and place, rurality and future heritages. She is an invited member of several research networks including Land2, the RSE funded International Network for Contemporary Archaeology in Scotland (INCAScot), and the RSE & RIA funded Rural Reimagined network. Gina is the GSA Co-ordinator for the Arctic Sustainable Art and Design Thematic Network of the University of the Arctic and a member of the cross disciplinary Reading Landscapes research group at The Glasgow School of Art. She holds a practice-based PhD from the University of Dundee/DJCAD and is a Senior Fellow of the HEA. Gina has an established record of supervising PhD candidates to completion and is especially interested in working with practice-based PhD candidates engaged in interdisciplinary creative projects.
photography, place, time, landscape-as-archive, philosophy, contemporary archaeology, future heritage
Gina has supervised interdisciplinary practice-based PhD projects with academics from disciplines such as archaeology, creative writing, anthropology, design innovation and criminology. She works primarily between photography and writing, but is interested in supervising across disciplines.
CC Ozdogan: Space Tumulus: Un/digging the Garden of Ghosts
(Primary Supervisor)
Andrew MacCrimmon: Assembled Movies: The Film Works of Allan Sekula, 2001-2013
(Primary Supervisor)
Susan Torrance: Liberating the Archive
(Primary Supervisor)
Maria Howard: Tree for Column – Mapping the relationship between colonialism and climate through the built and natural heritage of the ‘second city of the empire’
(Co-Supervisor)
Imagining a Polyvocal Prison Image Archive: Socially engaged photography and the aesthetics of ethics in spaces of incarceration
Dr Alice Myers
Funded by Carnegie PhD Scholarship
(Primary Supervisor)
Painting Nostalgia: A Rhizomatic Exploration of Memory and Affect
Dr Rongwei Zhang
(Primary/Co-Supervisor)
Cilliní sites, mediations on infant burial, loss and bereavement through visual art practice
Dr Sheena Graham George
(Primary Supervisor)
Heather, hill and highland cattle: A re-evaluation of the image in the Highlands c. 1850-1940
An exploration of the visual representation of the Gàidhealtachd in the 18th and 19th centuries - submitted in Gaelic
Dr Eleanor MacDougall
Winner of the inaugural Farquhar Macintosh award for outstanding academic achievement
(Co-Supervisor)
In the forest, field and studio: art/making/methodology and the more than written in the rendering of place
Dr Amanda Thomson
Funded by HIE and the Forestry Commission
(Co-Supervisor)
Gina is an accomplished teacher with over 25 years experience in higher education, including extensive programme design, course development and validation. She has taught both theory and practice across the tertiary system in the UK, but recently her focus has been on Masters level teaching and PhD supervision. She has enjoyed making a contribution to taught Masters in Fine Art, the MRes in Creative Practice and the GSA Research Degrees Training programme on her own practice based research, along with fieldwork, and other practice-based research methodologies.
