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
- Dean's commendation prize for MSc Student thesis
- Recipient
- 14/11/2023
- 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
- 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 open Vol 13 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-066986
- How does heritage contribute to inclusive growth?
- Dorpalen Brenda Denise, Gallou Eirini
- Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1108/JCHMSD-03-2022-0050
- From StrathCEKO to StrathCAN : building a community of climate education ambassadors from the bottom up in a higher education institution
- Strachan Scott, Quirke William, Sprick Reiner Sebastian, Gallou Eirini, Collins Robert, Faulkner Suzanne
- 11th Annual International Conference on Sustainable Development (2023)
- Collaborative planning tools for fighting social and climate vulnerability : learning from Glasgow neighbourhoods
- Gallou Eirini
- Transforming The City: Public Space & Environment, Inequalities & Democracy (2023)
- Co-creation of sustainability education : 'made by students'
- Gallou Eirini, Williams Damien
- Conference on Sustainable Development, pp. 1-9 (2023)
- 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)
Professional Activities
- ESD Curriculum Mapping from Planning to Implementation – Strathclyde’s Journey
- Speaker
- 30/4/2024
- CPG Wellbeing Economy meeting, "Land Reform for a Wellbeing Economy''
- Recipient
- 23/4/2024
- Manufacturing Skills Academy, National Manufacturing Institute Scotland
- Visiting researcher
- 22/4/2024
- UKRI (Publisher)
- Peer reviewer
- 29/3/2024
- ESD Conference 2024
- Host
- 27/3/2024
- 'Linking research culture to the UN Sustainable Development Goals'
- Participant
- 22/3/2024
Projects
- Transformative urban heritage. Strategies for sustainable European housing stock
- Rogerson, Robert (Principal Investigator) Gallou, Eirini (Co-investigator) Sharpe, Tim (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2027
- 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
- Anti-racial and decolonial approaches in academia, the way forward
- Gallou, Eirini (Fellow)
- This online panel discussion, inspired by the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. 24th March 2023 was organised and chaired by myself to enable knowledge exchange and sharing of awareness on the topic through the experiences of experienced panelists.Invited speakers, Dr B.Garvey (UoS,WEO),Dr L.Mensah, (Uos, SCELG), Prof. Mike Watts (Brunel University), Dr. Saima Salehjee (University of Glasgow)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2024
Contact
Dr
Eirini
Gallou
Teaching Fellow
Strathclyde Business School
Email: eirini.gallou@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted