Ellie Harrison

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The Glasgow Effect

  • 2016 Lecture

    Think Global, Act Local!

    Harrison’s first public appearance following the start of The Glasgow Effect, was this Skype presentation to the Annual Symposium of the Centre for Environmental Change & Human Resilience at the University of Dundee, where she has been employed as a lecturer since 2013.

  • 2016 Media

    Artist says Glasgow Effect project will explore the ‘economic system’

    23 Feb 2016
    The Courier (p.10)

  • 2016 Media

    Glasgow Effect artist Ellie Harrison has no regrets

    4 Feb 2016
    BBC News, Glasgow & West Scotland

  • 2016 Lectures

    The Glasgow Effect: A Discussion

    A discussion about The Glasgow Effect chaired by Roanne Dods & Gerry Hassan with Darren McGarvey, Katie Gallogly-Swan & Ellie Harrison, held at the Glad Cafe as part of Imagination: Scotland’s Festival of Ideas.

  • 2016 Media

    Stay or Glasgow?

    1 Feb 2016
    Art Monthly (Issue 393 p.11)

  • 2016 Media

    Artist whose Glasgow Effect project caused controversy to discuss row in new event

    23 Jan 2016
    The Herald (p.3)

  • 2016 Media

    The week in higher education

    14 Jan 2016
    Times Higher Education (p.4)

  • 2016 Media

    Long Story Short – The Glasgow Effect

    11 Jan 2016
    The Social, BBC Scotland

  • 2016 Media

    The ethics and effects of funding artists: a response to the Ellie Harrison affair

    11 Jan 2016
    a-n website

  • 2016 Media

    Glasgow Effect artist may have the last laugh over misplaced internet ‘shaming’

    10 Jan 2016
    Sunday Herald (p.27)

  • 2016 Media

    Poverty safari? Don’t forget the pith helmet

    10 Jan 2016
    The Independent on Sunday (p.40-41)

  • 2016 Media

    Our arts body cannot only back risk-averse ideas

    9 Jan 2016
    The Herald (p.15)

  • 2016 Media

    The ‘Glasgow Effect’ is not in our control

    9 Jan 2016
    The National (p.14-15)

  • 2016 Media

    Ellie Harrison should wrap up The Glasgow Effect and move on

    9 Jan 2016
    The Herald (The Arts p.27)

  • 2016 Media

    Ellie Harrison Makes Me Deeply Ashamed

    8 Jan 2016
    AutonomyScotland

  • 2016 Media

    Let’s not give The Glasgow Effect project the Glasgow kiss off

    8 Jan 2016
    The Scotsman (p.24-25)

  • 2016 Media

    I’m a posh punchbag, says artist in Glasgow row

    8 Jan 2016
    The Times (p.17)

  • 2016 Media

    Glasgow is much more than a plate of chips

    7 Jan 2016
    Evening Times

  • 2016 Media

    The chips and the fury

    7 Jan 2016
    Product Magazine

  • 2016 Media

    A tumultuous week in Glasgow

    7 Jan 2016
    Kiltr

  • 2016 Media

    Cos I Can

    7 Jan 2016
    Bella Caledonia

  • 2016 Media

    Artists need to stick their necks out

    7 Jan 2016
    CommonSpace

  • 2016 Media

    Controversy over grant takes further twist as payment method is ruled out

    7 Jan 2016
    The Herald (p.3)

  • 2016 Media

    Confusion reigns after Creative Scotland says artist’s Glasgow Effect funding plan goes against the rules

    7 Jan 2016
    The Courier (p.3)

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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 – 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 😹 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' 📚

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Another massive win for our campaign today! 🥳 Slowly but surely we will get all Scotland's buses back in public control 🚌 ✊ @followers ...

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Today marks 40 years since ‘D-Day’ – the day that Margaret Thatcher’s 𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗯𝘂𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 was implemented everywhere across England, Scotland & Wales, except London 🚍 I’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 👏 You can watch the recording here 👇 @followers
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This is Massive! 📢 Did you hear First Minster John Swinney announce that all buses in Scotland will be brought back into public control by 2031? 🚍🥳 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 👇 @followers ...

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This weekend Wasps Artists' Studios - Hanson Street, Glasgow is celebrating its 25th anniversary! 🥳 I’ve been based here for sixteen of those years, since 2010. On 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟯 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿, 𝟭𝟭𝗮𝗺-𝟰𝗽𝗺 I’m opening my studio to visitors as part of the building’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 campaign’s 10th Anniversary Exhibition at The New Glasgow Society 🙌 It’s only on until Weds 23rd Sept, so please make sure you visit! 👇

🗓️ Open every day until Weds 23rd September, 12noon-5pm
📍 1307 Argyle Street, G3 8TL

It’s been a total labour of love to bring this exhibition together – four days’ 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 🚍 🚇 🚆

If you don’t know much about Get Glasgow Moving or just want to find out how I’ve been spending a massive chunk of my time over the last 10 years as the campaign’s co-founder and chairperson – then please make sure you come along!

I’ll be invigilating from Monday – Weds, so come and say hi 😊

We are also selling our popular campaign t-shirts, designed by yours truly, for just £10 – so don't miss your chance to get one 👕

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

Presented as part of Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival 2026

#GlasgowDoorsOpenDaysFestival #GlasgowGoesOut #CulturalHeritage #GlasgowEvents #GDODF26 @followers
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Opening this Thursday! 📢 Please don't miss this special exhibition I've curated to celebrate the Get Glasgow Moving campaign's 10th Anniversary 🥳 I've been working on it all summer and it's 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗶𝘅 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 at The New Glasgow Society as part of Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival #GDODF26 @followers 🙏 ...

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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 🚌🥳 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 👏 But their £2 fare cap will do nothing to improve services, create new routes or integrate timetables and tickets with other transport modes 🚍🚇🚆 For that we must bring our bus network back into public control. Please support Better Buses for Strathclyde to make it happen ✊ @followers ...

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  • Bus Regulation: The Musical T-Shirt Bus Regulation: The Musical T-Shirt £15.00
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  • Confessions of a Recovering Data Collector Book Confessions of a Recovering Data Collector £10.00
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  • 4 Live Broadcasts DVD 4 LIVE Broadcasts DVD £20.00
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