Ellie Harrison

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  • 2025 Lecture

    Dark Days: 10th Anniversary Screening & Discussion

    On 13 February 2015, close to 100 people spent the night in the great hall of Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art as part of Dark Days. Join us back at the gallery on Saturday 15 February 2025, 2pm for a special 10th Anniversary Screening & Discussion.

  • 2023 Lecture

    Centre for Cities Report Launch

    Speaking on behalf of the Get Glasgow Moving campaign, Harrison introduces Andrew Carter, Chief Executive of the Centre for Cities, at the launch of their new report Miles better: Improving public transport in the Glasgow City Region at the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh.

  • 2023 Lecture

    Taking our buses back into public control: What can Glasgow learn from Manchester & Liverpool?

    6 Sep 2023
    Unite Scotland

  • 2023 Lecture

    Campaigning for Outstanding Bus Services

    17 Jun 2023
    Yorkshire & Humber Pensioners Association, York

  • 2023 Lecture

    Cycling the hidden Molendinar Burn

    19 May 2023
    OnBikes, Glasgow

  • 2023 Lecture

    Embedding sustainability principles in practice

    16 May 2023
    a-n Artist Council

  • 2023 Lecture

    Energy Communities of Nepantla

    30 Mar 2023
    Sunlight Liberation Network

  • 2023 Lecture

    Chairโ€™s Report

    29 Mar 2023
    Glasgow Community Energy AGM, St Pauls Youth Forum, Glasgow

  • 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 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.

  • 2022 Lecture

    The Live Lecture

    21 Nov 2022
    Nottingham Trent University

  • 2022 Lecture

    Transport Justice in Glasgow

    17 Nov 2022
    SPIRU Autumn Pledginar, Glasgow Caledonian University

  • 2022 Lecture

    Fusing Art and Activism

    31 Oct 2022
    Public Sphere, Royal College of Art

  • 2022 Lecture

    In conversation with Sophie Hope

    7 Oct 2022
    Sunlight Doesn't Need a Pipeline, Stanley Picker Gallery (1:11:11-1:48:00)

  • 2022 Lecture

    Campaign Launch

    3 Oct 2022
    Better Buses for Merseyside (0:37:48-0:49:06)

  • 2022 Lecture

    Global Challenges, Local Solutions

    29 Sep 2022
    GCPH Small Grants Programme Showcase Event, University of Glasgow

  • 2022 Lecture

    Whose Railway Is It Anyway?

    7 Sep 2022
    New Internationalist, Mount Florida Books

  • 2022 Lecture

    Bus Regulation: The Musical – Screening & Discussion

    25 Aug 2022
    Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow

  • 2022 Lecture

    Art, activism and the fight for better buses in Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow

    19 Aug 2022
    AoMO2022, Liverpool

  • 2022 Lecture

    Studio Social: An Online Talk with artist Ellie Harrison

    26 Jul 2022
    Pier Projects

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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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Why are we still waiting for better buses? ๐ŸšŒ Check out this brilliant new animation by Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee graduate Sooz Reilly which we launched this week as part of the Better Buses for Strathclyde campaign. Please take two minutes to ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—น ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐— ๐—ฆ๐—ฃ๐˜€ to demand action ๐Ÿ‘‡ @followers
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It was an honour to organise this event for the brilliant Govanhill International Festival ๐Ÿ™Œ @followers

It was an honour to organise this event for the brilliant Govanhill International Festival and Carnival ๐Ÿ™Œ @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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Published today! Check out The Artists Bonds 14th Annual Report, detailing our third best performing year with 3 cash prizes totalling ยฃ125 ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿ’ท This means an annual payout of ยฃ0.79 for each or our 159 artist members ๐Ÿ‘ @followers Read more here ๐Ÿ‘‡
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Published today! Check out The Artists' Bond's 14th Annual Report, detailing our third best performing year with 3 cash prizes totalling ยฃ125 ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿ’ท This means an annual payout of ยฃ0.79 for each or our 159 artist members ๐Ÿ‘ @followers Read more here ๐Ÿ‘‡
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This ๐—ช๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐˜€ ๐Ÿฒ ๐—”๐˜‚๐—ด๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜ ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฑ, ๐Ÿณ๐—ฝ๐—บ! ๐Ÿ“ฃ Don't miss our FREE Cultivating Community Activism: Learning from Cathy McCormackโ€™s โ€˜The Wee Yellow Butterflyโ€™ event as part of Govanhill International Festival ๐Ÿ™Œ Listen to my interview on Sunny Govan to find out more! @followers tune in from 1:04:09 ๐Ÿ‘‡ ... See MoreSee Less

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Govanhill Festival 2025 preview interviews - 29 July 2025

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I was delighted to be interviewed about the Bring Back British Rail campaign for 14-year-old Riku Fryderyk's brilliant new documentary about rail re-nationalisation ๐Ÿš‰ Well worth a watch! ๐Ÿ™Œ @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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