Dr Eirini Gallou
Teaching Fellow
Strathclyde Business School
Personal statement
Dr Eirini Gallou, AFHEA (Associate fellow, HEA) is a Teaching Fellow for the Centre for Sustainable Development. Eirini has completed her PhD in ‘Sustainable heritage management in island contexts’, in UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage, BSEER. Her worked focuses on community engagement mechanisms and socio-institutional outcomes of participation, in the context of rural island communities, working with main case studies on the Orkney islands and worked as a policy social analyst for Historic England before joining Strathclyde.
Before that, she has worked in architectural and urban design in Netherlands and Belgium, as well as policy and practice in the highly interdisciplinary field of cultural heritage management in the UK as well as in her native Greece. Eirini is passionate about promoting collaborations to address sustainable development in an equitable way for all, through inclusive and transdisciplinary approaches. Eirini has experience in working for international and intergovernmental bodies that support capacity building for the protection of cultural and natural heritage and joined ICCROM’s flagship expert-targeted course ‘People centred-approaches to the Conservation of Nature and Culture’ in 2017. She’s excited to have moved to Scotland where she can support active learning approaches and the wider interdisciplinary teaching and research work of the Centre.
Prize And Awards
- UK & Ireland Green Gown Award 2022
- Recipient
- 8/11/2022
- Collaborative research prize, UCL Critical Heritage Studies
- Recipient
- 2019
- UCL Public engagement Prize
- Recipient
- 6/2017
- A.Onassis Public Benefit Foundation PhD Grant
- Recipient
- 10/2015
- Bodossaki Scholarship for excellence for MSc studies
- Recipient
- 8/2010
Publications
- Adding relevance to ESD : place-based learning as a linking thread between secondary and tertiary education
- Gallou Eirini, Quirke William
- Conference on Sustainable Development (2023)
- Is spatial exposure to heritage associated with visits to heritage and to mental health? A cross-sectional study using data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS)
- Macdonald Laura, Nicholls Natalie, Gallou Eirini, Monckton Linda, Mitchell Richard
- BMJ (2023)
- Is social capital higher in areas with a higher density of historic assets? Analyses of 11,112 adults living in England
- Mak HW, Gallou E, Fancourt D
- Perspectives in Public Health (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/17579139221145609
- Perceived place qualities, restorative effects and self-reported wellbeing benefits of visits to heritage sites : empirical evidence from a visitor survey in England
- Gallou Eirini, Uzzell David, Sofaer Joanna
- Wellbeing, Space and Society Vol 3 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wss.2022.100106
- Transformative approaches for trans-disciplinary sustainability curriculum design
- Gallou Eirini
- ICSD 2022, pp. 1-9 (2022)
- Managing participatory heritage for enhancing social well-being
- Gallou Eirini, Fouseki Kalliopi
- Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Heritage (2022) (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003038955
Professional Activities
- Climate Education training-EnRoads climate simulator discovery workshop
- Organiser
- 12/7/2023
- EAUC annual UK conference 2023
- Participant
- 27/6/2023
- Climate Education (Fresk) Workshop for EACU Scotland Conference 2023
- Organiser
- 8/2/2023
- Learning for Sustainability Scotland (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 1/2/2023
- Climate Education workshop
- Speaker
- 11/11/2022
- University Of Strathclyde (Organisational unit)
- Member
- 10/10/2022
Projects
- RIAS internship on SDG localisation
- Gallou, Eirini (Principal Investigator)
- RIAS post funded by the university on researching evidence to support SDG localisation for Scottish Local authorities in collaboration with Unhouse Scotland
- 01-Jan-2023 - 14-Jan-2023
- Participation in British Academy/Students Organising for Sustainability UK SHAPE Impact Project
- Bonnar, Lizann (Principal Investigator) Morse, Tracy (Co-investigator) Williams, Manuela (Co-investigator) Gallou, Eirini (Co-investigator)
- Staff from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Centre for Sustainable Development participated in the British Academy/Students Organising for Sustainability UK SHAPE (Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts for People and Environment) Impact Project. The project sought to support the local community of Townhead and Ladywell to address some of their sustainability challenges. As a first activity, students worked with community leaders to engage with the wider community via an exhibition in the Village Hall on Townhead and Ladywell: Past, Present and Future.
- 01-Jan-2022 - 06-Jan-2024
Contact
Dr
Eirini
Gallou
Teaching Fellow
Strathclyde Business School
Email: eirini.gallou@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted