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2023

  • 2023 Lecture

    Divest USS: Help stop your pension fuelling climate change

    24 Mar 2023
    Divest from Crisis, UK Divest

  • 2023 Lecture

    Transport, Community & Climate

    15 Mar 2023
    Scotstoun Community Centre, Glasgow

  • 2023 Lecture

    GCPH Small Grants Project Showcase

    8 Mar 2023
    University of Glasgow

  • 2023 Lecture

    Chair’s Report

    25 Feb 2023
    Get Glasgow Moving AGM, Unite Scotland

  • 2023 Media

    Taskforce on Sustainable Public Transport Investment, Funding & Fares

    23 Feb 2023
    International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF Global)

  • 2023 Media

    Bus cuts across Scotland

    20 Feb 2023
    Lunchtime Live, BBC Radio Scotland

  • 2023 Media

    Ellie Harrisonโ€™s glorious piece of agit-prop theatre

    30 Jan 2023
    The Herald (p.3)

  • 2023 Media

    Bus Regulation: The Musical Review

    30 Jan 2023
    FringeReview Scotland

  • 2023 Media

    Bus Regulation: The Musical at Platform Review

    30 Jan 2023
    The Scotsman (p.33)

  • 2023 Media

    Artist seizes platform to send clear messages on our buses

    29 Jan 2023
    The National (p.16)

  • 2023 Exhibition

    Bus Regulation: The Musical (Strathclyde)

    28 Jan 2023
    Platform, Glasgow

  • 2023 Media

    Stephen Fry toasts award winners

    14 Jan 2023
    Evening Telegraph (p.8)

  • 2023 Media

    Stephen Fry lauds Dundee Uni at Awards

    14 Jan 2023
    The Courier (p.1-3)

  • 2023 Lecture

    Bus Regulation: The Musical – The Trilogy

    On 13 January 2023, Harrison won the University of Dundee’s ‘Engaged Researcher of the Year’ award at the annual Stephen Fry Public Engagement Awards for her work on the Bus Regulation: The Musical Trilogy in Greater Manchester, Strathclyde & Merseyside from 2019 โ€“ 2023.

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Ellie Harrison is an artist & activist based in Glasgow (UK). In 2023 she won the Stephen Fry Public Engagement Award for her ‘Bus Regulation: The Musical’ Trilogy in Greater Manchester, Strathclyde & Merseyside (2019 โ€“ 2023).
In 2021 the Second Edition of Harrison’s book The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint was launched at the UN Habitat’s Innovate4Cities conference to mark the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, and chosen by the Ecologist for the Resurgence Book Club. Her Early Warning Signs were also exhibited at Glasgow’s Mitchell Library during COP26 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the project.
Harrison’s Vending Machine continues to feature in the ๐Ÿ˜น LMAO exhibition exploring humour in data visualisation at the Open Data Institute in London.

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Artist, activist & author of 'The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint' ๐Ÿ“š

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Another massive win for our campaign today! ๐Ÿฅณ Slowly but surely we will get all Scotland's buses back in public control ๐ŸšŒ โœŠ @followers ...

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Today marks 40 years since โ€˜D-Dayโ€™ โ€“ the day that Margaret Thatcherโ€™s ๐—ฐ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜‡๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐˜† ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ฏ๐˜‚๐˜€ ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ด๐˜‚๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป was implemented everywhere across England, Scotland & Wales, except London ๐Ÿš Iโ€™ve devoted the last 10 years of my life fighting to undo the damage that this policy caused. On Saturday, I was proud to be part of this special online event to mark the occasion ๐Ÿ‘ You can watch the recording here ๐Ÿ‘‡ @followers
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This is Massive! ๐Ÿ“ข Did you hear First Minster John Swinney announce that all buses in Scotland will be brought back into public control by 2031? ๐Ÿš๐Ÿฅณ After 10 years' campaigning with Get Glasgow Moving and Better Buses for Strathclyde, it's just amazing to see The Scottish Government finally starting to listen! Hear my reaction in this special podcast for The National Newspaper ๐Ÿ‘‡ @followers ...

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This weekend Wasps Artists' Studios - Hanson Street, Glasgow is celebrating its 25th anniversary! ๐Ÿฅณ Iโ€™ve been based here for sixteen of those years, since 2010. On ๐—ฆ๐—ฎ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜† ๐Ÿฏ ๐—ข๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ, ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿญ๐—ฎ๐—บ-๐Ÿฐ๐—ฝ๐—บ Iโ€™m opening my studio to visitors as part of the buildingโ€™s special anniversary open studios event: waspsstudios.org.uk/news/hanson-street-studios-celebrates-25th-anniversary-this-october/ Please come down and say hello! @followers ...

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On Thursday night we launched the Get Glasgow Moving public transport campaignโ€™s 10th Anniversary Exhibition at The New Glasgow Society ๐Ÿ™Œ Itโ€™s only on until Weds 23rd Sept, so please make sure you visit! ๐Ÿ‘‡

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ Open every day until Weds 23rd September, 12noon-5pm
๐Ÿ“ 1307 Argyle Street, G3 8TL

Itโ€™s been a total labour of love to bring this exhibition together โ€“ four daysโ€™ solid to install and a whole summer spent sorting through the archives and organising more than 240 photographs, sixty press cuttings, fifty films, alongside many old placards, banners and leaflets to the tell the story of our campaign over the last decade ๐Ÿš ๐Ÿš‡ ๐Ÿš†

If you donโ€™t know much about Get Glasgow Moving or just want to find out how Iโ€™ve been spending a massive chunk of my time over the last 10 years as the campaignโ€™s co-founder and chairperson โ€“ then please make sure you come along!

Iโ€™ll be invigilating from Monday โ€“ Weds, so come and say hi ๐Ÿ˜Š

We are also selling our popular campaign t-shirts, designed by yours truly, for just ยฃ10 โ€“ so don't miss your chance to get one ๐Ÿ‘•

And thanks, as always, to Neil Scott for the wonderful photos!

Presented as part of Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival 2026

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Opening this Thursday! ๐Ÿ“ข Please don't miss this special exhibition I've curated to celebrate the Get Glasgow Moving campaign's 10th Anniversary ๐Ÿฅณ I've been working on it all summer and it's ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—น๐˜† ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜… ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜†๐˜€ at The New Glasgow Society as part of Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival #GDODF26 @followers ๐Ÿ™ ...

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I was delighted to be back in Liverpool City Region this week for the launch of Merseytravel's new publicly-controlled bus network ๐ŸšŒ๐Ÿฅณ I staged 'Bus Regulation: The Musical' here in 2022 and 2023 as part of the campaign which led to Steve Rotheram's decision to become the 2nd UK city region to roll-out bus franchising, after Greater Manchester. Find out more here: ellieharrison.com/merseyside @followers ...

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After 10 years campaigning, it's just brilliant to see The Scottish Government finally taking action to regulate bus fares in Glasgow ๐Ÿ‘ But their ยฃ2 fare cap will do nothing to improve services, create new routes or integrate timetables and tickets with other transport modes ๐Ÿš๐Ÿš‡๐Ÿš† For that we must bring our bus network back into public control. Please support Better Buses for Strathclyde to make it happen โœŠ @followers ...

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