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Enjoyed interview with Laura Miller on how Glasgow could host a re-imagined 2026 Commonwealth Games. With infrastructure, venues, expertise & track record for events in place, & the offer of £100m from Commonwealth Sport, #Glasgow & #Scotland are ready to host The Games again Centre for Culture, Sport and Events

Great ‘in conversation’ Donald Dewar Memorial Lecture with Mary McAleese at University of Glasgow What a day to remember the first First Minister of Scotland! Liked reference to being ‘patiently impatient’: impatient enough to be driven by passion but patient enough to ensure staying power

Great news for Cardiff Met! 👏🏼

Fantastic view today from my first Board meeting with Arts University Plymouth Good to connect with new colleagues and former contacts from Plymouth Marjon University days including Alex Bols from GuildHE

Congratulations to staff and graduates of Cardiff Metropolitan University on these outstanding graduate employment results. Data relate to graduates in first year when the Covid pandemic struck and who, together with staff, had to develop new skills and significant resilience to be so successful👏🏼👏🏼

Thanks to @sandrocf, Chloe Maclean and Centre for Culture, Sport and Events for great #LSA2024 conference on Rights, Responsibilities & Resistance in leisure, culture, sport, tourism & events. Honoured to receive Leisure Studies Assn Association lifetime achievement award presented by Heather Gibson of FLORIDA 🙏

Privileged to be appointed by Scottish Government to the Board of the Scottish Funding Council, Scotland’s tertiary education & research authority. I look forward to working in partnership with the Board, executive and sector to deliver transformation. sfc.ac.uk/?news=new-boar…

Loved Amy Liptrot’s The Outrun (2016) - wasn’t sure stage or screen would do it justice but Edinburgh International Festival play at Church Hill Theatre Edinburgh last night was outstanding! Phenomenal lead performance by @isishainsworth, direction by Vicky Featherstone and writing by Stef Smith👏🏼 Go!@canongatebooks

Congratulations to FionaCarroll & Esyin Chew of Cardiff School of Technologies Cardiff Metropolitan University on well-deserved National Teaching Fellowships. Their research expertise & industry partnerships in computing and robotics, innovative teaching, and school engagement is outstanding! 👏🏼

I’m with Jason on this! Actually I’m in The Garfagnana 🇮🇹 with someone who is very much in demand by the media today pending the decision on #Glasgow hosting the #CommonwealthGames 2026… 😂 Prof Gayle McPherson

Finally, Storm Boris blows through the Garfagnana!💨 Still very windy this evening at 1,500m in San Pellegrino and such a contrast to the beautifully sheltered chestnut woods around the hilltop village of Sillico on the other side of the valley and at half the altitude 🇮🇹♥️

Ciao ciao Italy after 10 fabulous days in the Appennino Tosca-Emiliano walking the ‘Paths of Moro’ ♥️🇮🇹

The Glasgow 2026 #CommonwealthGames will create an economic model that allows smaller nations to step up & host. Prof @GayleMcpherson_ delves deeper in her article for The Conversation, which directly addresses UN SDGs 3, 10, 11, 13, 16 and 17. Read more: theconversation.com/the-2026-commo…

Congratulations Francesca! I look forward to working with you and the Scottish Funding Council Board, and wish you all the best in your new role as our incoming Chief Executive.

Celebration at 2024 UK & Ireland Green Gown Awards tonight at Dynamic Earth #Edinburgh Staff and students’ passion and commitment in striving towards environmental sustainability, net zero, and UN #SDGs gets stronger every year. Congratulations to all the winners! Scottish Funding Council

The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh’s ‘Christmas At The Botanics ‘24’ festival of light installations runs to 30 Dec. Visiting supports RBGE’s research, conservation and education tackling our planet’s climate emergency and biodiversity crisis. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh lnkd.in/dC5Dx8Em

‘Salty: Bodies of Water’ seascapes by Wendy Sara, with poetry and sound from Hame-ish Arts, at Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh from 30 Jan to 1 Feb. Privilege to have poem ‘The Bass Rock’ accepted to support inspiring ‘Bass Rock’ seascape (top right). Come along if in Edinburgh.

This vital support package for University of Dundee is the result of significant work by many partners over many months. As a board member I wish to thank the staff of the Scottish Funding Council who have worked tirelessly and with such professionalism to achieve this result.

I haven’t engaged with Twitter/X for a while so thought I’d share the amazing seascapes of this week’s kayaking trip round Eirisgeigh/Eriskay in Na h-Eileanan Siar/Western Isles 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

At the heart of a successful nation is a lifelong education, research, innovation and skills system. The Scottish Funding Council invests £2bn a year in Scotland’s 43 universities and colleges and is now seeking four new Board Members to contribute to transformation of this system 👇