Ellie Harrison

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Get Glasgow Moving

  • 2022 Media

    The battle for our buses

    1 Mar 2022
    Scottish Left Review (Issue 128 p.22)

  • 2022 Media

    Take Back Our Buses

    19 Feb 2022
    GoRadio

  • 2022 Media

    Campaigners take to the streets

    18 Feb 2022
    That's TV Scotland

  • 2022 Lecture

    Chair’s Report

    16 Feb 2022
    Get Glasgow Moving AGM

  • 2021 Media
    STV News

    Why Glasgow needs integrated ticketing

    18 Nov 2021
    STV News

  • 2021 Media

    COP26 public transport demo

    10 Nov 2021
    Lunchtime Live, BBC Radio Scotland

  • 2021 Lecture

    Demand Better Public Transport Rally

    10 Nov 2021
    George Square, Glasgow

  • 2021 Lecture

    Geared Up: Campaigns for greener transport

    8 Nov 2021
    Just Transition Hub, Glasgow

  • 2021 Lecture

    Glasgow Communities Bloc Rally

    6 Nov 2021
    Global Day of Action, Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow

  • 2021 Lecture

    Transforming Public Transport to Fight Climate Change

    3 Nov 2021
    The Deep End, Glasgow

  • 2021 Media

    26 visions of hope for Scotland ahead of climate summit

    24 Oct 2021
    The Herald

  • 2021 Media
    STV News

    Is Glasgow ready for COP26?

    1 Oct 2021
    STV News

  • 2021 Media

    How to improve Scotlandโ€™s public transport system

    11 Sep 2021
    The National

  • 2021 Lecture

    Community Wealth Building in a Climate Emergency

    11 Sep 2021
    Scottish Trade Union Congress

  • 2021 Lecture

    Implementing Scotland’s new bus powers: whatโ€™s at stake?

    8 Sep 2021
    Get Glasgow Moving Members Meeting

  • 2021 Lecture

    Just Transition in Transport?

    2 Sep 2021
    Climate, Jobs, Justice: Making the Just Transition Happen, Just Transition Partnership

  • 2021 Media
    Reporting Scotland

    Transport Proposals in SNP-Green Deal

    27 Aug 2021
    BBC Reporting Scotland

  • 2021 Lecture

    Britain’s Bus Crisis: Privatisation, Poverty & Human Rights

    21 Jul 2021
    Center for Human Rights & Global Justice, New York University

  • 2021 Media

    Our public transport must be a joy to use

    4 Apr 2021
    The Sunday Post

  • 2021 Lecture

    Putting Free Buses back on the Agenda

    25 Mar 2021
    Free Our City public hearing (1:44:01-1:50:01)

  • 2021 Lecture

    The Climate Hot Seat – The Warm-up

    12 Mar 2021
    YouthLink Scotland

  • 2021 Lecture

    Public Transport: Privatisation & Poverty

    24 Feb 2021
    Get Glasgow Moving AGM

  • 2021 Lecture

    Launch Rally

    14 Jan 2021
    Another Glasgow is Possible

  • 2021 Lecture

    How should Scotland change how it travels?

    9 Jan 2021
    Scotlandโ€™s Climate Assembly

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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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2 months ago
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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 ...

2 months ago
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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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