Mhairi Brennan
Mhairi Brennan
Research Title
Archiving the Referendum: The Scottish Independence Referendum 2014 and the BBC Scotland Television Archive
Research Summary
My PhD research focuses on the influence of television archive material on cultural memory, using the contents of BBC Scotland’s television archive pertaining to the 2014 Scottish independence referendum as a case study.
I previously worked in the film & television industry as an archive producer.
Supervisors
Grants
AHRC PhD funding 2015-2018
Conference
Selected Conferences:
2018 Memory Studies Association Conference, Copenhagen
Selected to participate in the MSA Forward PhD event
Why Public History? Conference, Queen’s University, Belfast
Public Broadcaster, Public History.
2017 Screen Conference, University of Glasgow
The 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum and BBC Scotland’s Television Archive.
The Stuff of Research Material Culture Symposium, Kelvin Hall, Glasgow
Archiving the Scottish Referendum: The Future of the BBC Scotland Television Archive
2016 - 2017 Participant at workshops held by the Contested Identities: Cultural Dialogues Between Small Nations project, funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Teaching
Key Moments in Film and Television (Level 1)
Archive Research for Television (MLitt)
