Clare Devaney
Clare Devaney
- Senior Researcher and Innovation Lead
- ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1319-4636- Professional Title
- Reader in Strategic and Systems Innovation
- Job Title
- Senior Researcher and Innovation Lead
- School or Academic Area
- Interdisciplinary Research
- School or Academic Area Supervised for
- Interdisciplinary Research
- C.Devaney@gsa.ac.uk
- Professional Address
- GSA Highlands & Islands Campus Altyre Estate Forres IV36 2SH
Biography
Dr Clare Devaney is a Reader in Strategic and Systems Innovation, Senior Researcher and Innovation Lead.
Clare's work has been published and disseminated internationally, including through book publication (Panonomics, Springer, 2021), as an award-winning entry to The Global Indigo Prize for Economics (2017), and through the TED platform (2017 and 2018).
She is a member of the UKRI AHRC Peer Review College and its moderation panels.
Clare's career includes senior leadership roles in economic development and public policy, working previously with the UK Government as Strategic Lead for Place and Culture in the North of England and as Head of Innovation and Special Projects for the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.
Clare holds a PhD in Built Environment ('A Fourth Way: The role of cultural heritage in embedding place-driven innovation', University of Salford, 2021) and an MA/BA in English Literature (St Catharine's College, University of Cambridge, 2002/1998)
Research Interests
Clare's research focusses on the design from concept of novel strategic, measurement and evaluation models, frameworks and systems.
Grants
Programme Lead (PI) - "A Golden Thread: Crafting the Creative Economy from Scotland's Highlands, Lowlands and Islands"
UKRI AHRC Doctoral Focal Awards (2026-33)
A Craft-led and interdisciplinary PhD training and enterprise development programme, driven from and distributed across Scotland's rural and island communities. Led by GSA and delivered in partnership with Open University & SRUC.
PGR Supervision Interests
Novel and emerging systems and organisational frameworks
Regenerative practice and futures
Craft, making and materialism
Place-driven and community-led approaches
Current PGR Students
MRes - Kiara Mackenzie
'Emotion as a traditional Craft practice'
(Primary Supervisor)
Former PGR Students
PhD - Jiaojiao Li - SAFA Exchange student
'Visualisation of knowledge in traditional handicrafts'
(Co-Supervisor)
Completion, 2025
Latest Additions
- Devaney, Clare and Cochrane, Ruth (2025) Nexa.
- Cochrane, Ruth and Devaney, Clare (2025) Erodium.
- Stoney, Charlotte and Devaney, Clare (2024) Crafting Innovation: Designing the Pattern.
- Stoney, Charlotte and Devaney, Clare (2024) Crafting Innovation Workshop: Findings Report. Project Report. ..
- McAra-McWilliam, Irene, Devaney, Clare and Stoney, Charlotte (2024) Craft Scaler: The Fabric of the Future. Project Report. ..
- Devaney, Clare (2021) Panonomics: A 4.0 System to Save Us from Ourselves. Springer/ Palgrave Macmillan, London. ISBN 9783030875084
Most Viewed Items
| # | Item title |  |  |
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| 1 | Nexa | 142 | 62 |
| 2 | Erodium | 142 | 46 |
| 3 | Panonomics: A 4.0 System to Save Us from Ourselves | 33 | 1 |