Official Announcement: Pope Francis passes away.

👏 Congratulations Ava (and JP) ☘️

Official Announcement.

🇪🇸 Had a great week with the POST Interreg Steering Committee with partners from Spain, Portugal, France and Ireland, at Monforte de Lomos🇪🇸🇵🇹🇫🇷🇮🇪 ⛪️ A key highlight was visiting the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela & exploring the value of pilgrimage tourism to the region🚶🏻‍♂️

📚Great to see our chapter now published that explored attitude to risk in event medical provision Major incidents at live events, such as the terrorist attack at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, have served as a catalyst for action in this area.

Delighted that our paper “𝑼𝒏𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒌 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒗𝒆: 𝒄𝒐-𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒂” has been published ⤵️

Nothing to see here… just two professors sitting on a bench 😛 [@ Einstein Museum, Bern 🇨🇭]

Had a great week in Bern 🇨🇭representing Young Academy of Scotland at the European Network of Young Academies (ENYA) annual meeting. Thanks to Swiss Young Academy for the wonderful hospitality 🍫 It was great to meet so many people representing young academies from across Europe 🇪🇺

Great to be back at Edinburgh Napier University today for the TourismENU annual symposium and to meet so many wonderful former colleagues 😃

Amazing to see Professor professor gary kerr give the keynote for The University of Salford annual postgraduate researcher conference, organized by our doctoral school. Gary is one of our superstars, completely unstoppable and the nicest person you will ever meet. #Sparc2025

Great to be back at University of Salford to give the keynote at Salford Postgraduate Research Conference #SPARC2025 💙 Thank you to UoS PGR Studies for kindly inviting me & for an excellently organised conference 💜 Great to catch up with so many people especially Prof Andy Miah | he/him ❤️

🌍Delighted that our Atlantic Technological University MSc in Sustainable Tourism and Event Management has been accredited by A Greener Future 📖 agreenerfuture.com/blog-agf/welco…   #AGFAccredited #SustainableTourism #EventManagement #SustainabilityInEducation #GreenEvents

Had a great time at AEME Events Ed conference in Chester this week #EventsEducation #EventsProfs

It has been a pleasure delivering the ASEAN-UK Festival Management Training with Prof Jane Ali-Knight to over 60 participants from the ASEAN region 🇧🇳 🇰🇭 🇮🇩 🇲🇾 🇲🇲 🇵🇭 🇸🇬 🇻🇳 🇹🇭 🇹🇱 Huge thanks to British Council Indonesia British Council & JOGJA FESTIVALS for being such great partners to work with🩷

👑 Such a privilege to have met His Royal Highness Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh, at Royal Society of Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿On behalf of Young Academy of Scotland I presented our ‘Scotland Cares’ project where we have been gathering stories of care from unpaid carers across the country.

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Had a brilliant weekend at ButeFest ⛴️ 🎪🎟️🎶

Feeling inspired after a great AGM of Young Academy of Scotland held at University of Glasgow today. I enjoyed hosting a Q&A with Prof Sir Anton Muscatelli Anton Muscatelli, exploring contemporary challenges facing universities and the role of learned societies/young academies in providing solutions 🎓