Ellie Harrison

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  • 2024 Media

    A Quiet Revolution in Public Transport

    1 Feb 2024
    Scottish Left Review (Issue 138 p.8-9)

  • 2023 Media

    Bus Regulation: The Musical interview to celebrate announcement on bus regulation

    6 Oct 2023
    Lisa Marrey, BBC Radio Merseyside

  • 2023 Media

    Bus Regulation in Greater Manchester

    22 Sep 2023
    Channel 4 News

  • 2023 Media

    Investment Principles podcast: Sustainability

    16 Aug 2023
    Arts Council England

  • 2023 Media

    Glasgow’s night bus crisis

    14 Aug 2023
    BBC Reporting Scotland, BBC One

  • 2023 Media

    Bus Regulation: The Musical feature

    16 Jul 2023
    Politics North West, BBC One

  • 2023 Media

    Bus Regulation: The Musical interview

    12 Jul 2023
    Helen Jones, BBC Radio Merseyside

  • 2023 Media

    Making a song and dance about local buses

    10 Jul 2023
    The Northern Agenda

  • 2023 Media

    Bus Regulation: The Musical coming to a theatre near you

    9 Jul 2023
    Liverpool Echo

  • 2023 Media

    Regulate! Ellie Harrison interview by Lynsey Hanley

    1 May 2023
    Tribune (Issue 18 p.92-94)

  • 2023 Media

    Faut-il privatiser les transports en commun?

    16 Apr 2023
    27, ARTE (France)

  • 2023 Media

    Bus cuts across Scotland

    20 Feb 2023
    Lunchtime Live, BBC Radio Scotland

  • 2023 Media

    Ellie Harrison’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 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)

  • 2022 Media

    Busverkehr in Großbritannien „Ein Desaster“

    22 Dec 2022
    Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Deutschlandradio (Germany)

  • 2022 Media

    Fusing art and activism

    1 Dec 2022
    Culture, Climate & Environmental Responsibility, Julie's Bicycle

  • 2022 Media

    Bus Regulation: The Musical comes to the Bluecoat

    17 Oct 2022
    The Guide Liverpool

  • 2022 Media

    Get Glasgow Moving protest outside SPT offices in Glasgow

    1 Oct 2022
    The Scotsman

  • 2022 Media

    Railways: Back on track?

    1 Sep 2022
    New Internationalist (p.21-22)

  • 2022 Media

    Celebrating community energy successes

    5 Aug 2022
    Local Energy Scotland

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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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Ellie Harrison

Artist, activist & author of 'The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint' 📚

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Don't miss our Better Buses National Hustings tonight! 👇 You can catch me on the livestream at 7pm:
📺 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 Manchester’s new ‘Bee Network’, or the recently released plans for South Yorkshire’s ‘People’s Network’" — Ellie Harrison

I was delighted to contribute to Gerry Hassan's article for Bella Caledonia about 𝘈 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘎𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘨𝘰𝘸 👏 Read online here 👇
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 '𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲' which I'm co-hosting this Thursday 2 April, 11am-1pm 🌍 Find out more 👇 @followers ... See MoreSee Less

4 weeks ago
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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 👇 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 😊 @followersSave the date! 🌞 We're delighted to be collaborating with Friends of the Earth Scotland to bring you Turning homes into renewable Power Stations: film screening & Discussion 👇
🗓️ Thurs 12 March 2026, 5:30pm
📍 Reid Building, The Glasgow School of Art
🎟️ Book free tickets: powerstationGSA.eventbrite.com @followers
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2 months ago
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It’s this blatant injustice that motivates all my campaigning 😡 Why should people in the poorest parts of Glasgow have to pay 𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘸𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 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 Glasgow’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 ‘When the Chips Hit the Fan’ – Chapter 5 of my book ‘The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint’ published by Luath Press 📚

We have just printed a newly updated version of the Second Edition, so do have a read if you’d like to be transported back to that moment in January 2016... Find out more at: ellieharrison.com/book @followers
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4 months ago
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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 🤩 Check it out here 👇 @followers ... See MoreSee Less

4 months ago
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🚶🚲🚍🚇🚉 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 𝘉𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘉𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 conference at KVS Brussels 🙌 @followers ... See MoreSee Less

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