Ellie Harrison

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  • 2021 Lecture

    The Climate Hot Seat – The Warm-up

    12 Mar 2021
    YouthLink Scotland

  • 2021 Lecture

    Divest Panel Discussion

    12 Mar 2021
    Green Week, University of Warwick

  • 2021 Lecture

    Public Transport: Privatisation & Poverty

    24 Feb 2021
    Get Glasgow Moving AGM

  • 2021 Lecture

    Launch Rally

    14 Jan 2021
    Another Glasgow is Possible

  • 2020 Lecture

    Just Transition: a fairer, greener Scotland

    25 Nov 2020
    Just Transition Commission, Scottish Government

  • 2020 Lecture

    How can we build a green recovery?

    23 Nov 2020
    Glasgow Covid-19 Action Group

  • 2020 Lecture

    Art, Activism & Sustainable Transport in Glasgow

    20 Nov 2020
    Impact Arts, Glasgow

  • 2020 Lecture

    Spotlight on Glasgow

    14 Nov 2020
    From the Ground Up, COP26 Coalition (0:37:00-0:39:10)

  • 2020 Lecture

    Dear Green Glasgow

    12 Nov 2020
    Masters in Landscape Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art

  • 2020 Lecture

    My Philosophy of Art School Education

    4 Nov 2020
    Contemporary Art Practice Speaker's Programme, University of Dundee

  • 2020 Lecture

    Building Back Better Public Transport

    19 Oct 2020
    People Before Profit Scotland launch event (0:55:40-0:58:43)

  • 2020 Lecture

    A Green Recovery: the Future of Transport in Glasgow

    14 Oct 2020
    Greenpeace Glasgow

  • 2020 Lecture

    Imagine if buses were freeโ€ฆ

    19 Sep 2020
    Free Our City launch event (0:41:08-0:54:15)

  • 2020 Lecture

    Save Gurnell

    6 Aug 2020
    Overview & Scrutiny Committee, Ealing Council

  • 2020 Lecture

    Scotland’s Response to the Climate Emergency

    10 Jun 2020
    Friends of the Earth Scotland (0:18:29-0:28:49)

  • 2020 Lecture

    Free Public Transport

    1 May 2020
    Glasgow May Day, Glasgow Trades Council (1:38:32-1:46:22)

  • 2020 Media

    Bus Regulation feature

    4 Mar 2020
    You & Yours, BBC Radio 4

  • 2020 Media

    The Glasgow Effect โ€“ Book Review

    28 Feb 2020
    Amazon

  • 2020 Lecture

    Chair’s Report

    1 Feb 2020
    Get Glasgow Moving AGM, Unison, Glasgow

  • 2020 Lecture

    Campus Cycling Officer Gathering

    15 Jan 2020
    Cycling Scotland, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh

  • 2019 Lecture

    Book Launch – The Glasgow Effect

    11 Dec 2019
    Blackwell's South Bridge, Edinburgh

  • 2019 Lecture

    COP Tales

    10 Dec 2019
    Creative Carbon Scotland, Civic House, Glasgow (36:04-42:26)

  • 2019 Lecture

    Assembly: Alternative Funding

    22 Nov 2019
    The NewBridge Project, Gateshead

  • 2019 Lecture

    Book Launch โ€“ The Glasgow Effect

    13 Nov 2019
    The NewBridge Project, Gateshead

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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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Ellie Harrison

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

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Don't miss our Better Buses National Hustings tonight! ๐Ÿ‘‡ You can catch me on the livestream at 7pm:
๐Ÿ“บ www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rFh2CjP_Xs @followers
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"We need The Scottish Government to support our transport authority, SPT, to bring the bus network back into public control, so they can deliver a fully-integrated, accessible and affordable public transport network across the region like Greater Manchesterโ€™s new โ€˜Bee Networkโ€™, or the recently released plans for South Yorkshireโ€™s โ€˜Peopleโ€™s Networkโ€™" โ€” Ellie Harrison

I was delighted to contribute to Gerry Hassan's article for Bella Caledonia about ๐˜ˆ ๐˜•๐˜ฆ๐˜ธ ๐˜‹๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜Ž๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜จ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ ๐Ÿ‘ Read online here ๐Ÿ‘‡
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/03/31/time-for-a-new-deal-and-vision-for-glasgow @followers
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Calling all A-N members! Don't miss this online artist's talk and workshop on '๐—”๐—ฟ๐˜ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ' which I'm co-hosting this Thursday 2 April, 11am-1pm ๐ŸŒ Find out more ๐Ÿ‘‡ @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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Are you in Glasgow this evening? Come along to this free screening of the brilliant POWER Film at The Glasgow School of Art ๐Ÿ‘‡ I'll be introducing the event, talking about my work with Glasgow Community Energy and chairing a Q&A with artist and filmmaker Hilary Powell ๐Ÿ˜Š @followersSave the date! ๐ŸŒž We're delighted to be collaborating with Friends of the Earth Scotland to bring you Turning homes into renewable Power Stations: film screening & Discussion ๐Ÿ‘‡
๐Ÿ—“๏ธ Thurs 12 March 2026, 5:30pm
๐Ÿ“ Reid Building, The Glasgow School of Art
๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ Book free tickets: powerstationGSA.eventbrite.com @followers
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2 months ago
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Itโ€™s this blatant injustice that motivates all my campaigning ๐Ÿ˜ก Why should people in the poorest parts of Glasgow have to pay ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ต๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ฎ๐˜ถ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ for an essential public service as bankers in the City of London? Shame on The Scottish Government for presiding over this system for more than 25 years! @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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Ten years ago today, I was just beginning my year-long durational performance #TheGlasgowEffect which was to become one of the most controversial publicly-funded artworks that Scotland had ever seen.

Part psychological experiment, part protest, part strike, for the whole of 2016, I vowed not to travel beyond Glasgowโ€™s city limits, or use any vehicles except my bike.

I described my experience of starting #TheGlasgowEffect, including being at the centre of the social media stooshie it provoked, in โ€˜When the Chips Hit the Fanโ€™ โ€“ Chapter 5 of my book โ€˜The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprintโ€™ published by Luath Press ๐Ÿ“š

We have just printed a newly updated version of the Second Edition, so do have a read if youโ€™d like to be transported back to that moment in January 2016... Find out more at: ellieharrison.com/book @followers
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It's been brilliant working with Metro Map Design to produce Get Glasgow Moving's new film setting out our vision for the new #ClydeMetro integrated public transport system ๐Ÿคฉ Check it out here ๐Ÿ‘‡ @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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๐Ÿšถ๐Ÿšฒ๐Ÿš๐Ÿš‡๐Ÿš‰ I was honoured to be invited to discuss my activism with Bring Back British Rail, Get Glasgow Moving & Better Buses for Strathclyde at ETF's ๐˜‰๐˜ถ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜‰๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜—๐˜ถ๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ค ๐˜›๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ต conference at KVS Brussels ๐Ÿ™Œ @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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