Dr Holly Porteous

Teaching Fellow

Marketing

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Personal statement

I am interested in how inequalities are produced and reproduced in society, particularly from a gender/feminist perspective.

From 2020-22 I worked on the Leverhulme-funded project 'Glasgow Women's Library: A Transformative Servicescape' at the University of Strathclyde, looking at how service spaces have the potential to ameliorate consumer vulnerability.

From 2014-2020 I worked on various projects studying how migrants from former state socialist countries have made themselves socially, economically, personally and culturally secure in Scotland. This was chiefly on the ESRC-funded project 'Social Support and Migration in Scotland' (SSAMIS).

I completed my PhD in 2014 at the University of Glasgow. My thesis analysed constructions of normative femininity in Russian society and culture through an analysis of women's magazines and their readers.


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Professional Activities

Strathclyde Feminist Research Network
Organiser
1/8/2023
Enhancing Staff Engagement with Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Through Interdisciplinary Reading Groups in Academic Institutions
Contributor
2/7/2025
Building Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) through Reading Groups
Organiser
8/6/2026
International Women’s Day: Finding Solace in Troubled Times
Organiser
11/3/2026
Reflections on Teaching Advanced Qualitative Methods to PhD Students
Speaker
19/6/2025
Decolonising Together Community of Practice
Participant
12/6/2025

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Projects

Enhancing Staff Engagement with Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Through Interdisciplinary Reading Groups in Academic Institutions
Porteous, Holly (Co-investigator) Mushtaq, Iram (Co-investigator) Hall, Michaela (Co-investigator)
This project aims to investigate whether structured conversations based on EDI-related themes can enhance university staff members’ engagement with EDI practices. The findings will help us understand how reading group-style discussions could support professional development and promote inclusive cultures in academic environments.
02-Jan-2025
Transformative Servicescapes and consumer vulnerability
Hamilton, Kathy (Principal Investigator) Edwards, Sarah (Co-investigator) Wilson, Juliette (Co-investigator) Porteous, Holly (Researcher)
01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2022
Beyond Text: Using Collage as a Rigorous Visual Method in PhD Research
Tonner, Andrea (Principal Investigator) Porteous, Holly (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2026 - 05-Jan-2026
Global Strategy Simulation Lab: Experiential Learning for Market Entry Decision-Making
Fisher, Michelle (Principal Investigator) Kim, Hyoje (Co-investigator) McKee, Elizabeth (Academic) Porteous, Holly (Academic) Roman-Kamphaus, Urszula (Academic)
This project embeds a global business simulation into a third-year undergraduate marketing module [Strategic Marketing in an International Context], enabling students to apply strategic decision-making in a realistic, team-based environment. Working in groups of 4–5, students are assigned fictional companies and tasked with making six pivotal decisions to launch their brand in a global market. These include product selection, SMART objectives, market choice, entry strategy, budgeting, and contingency planning. The decisions are fed into a digital simulation platform that models market dynamics and provides feedback on performance. The project draws on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) principles by integrating experiential learning, gamification, and reflective practice. It aims to enhance student engagement, strategic thinking, and employability by mirroring real-world marketing challenges. The simulation will run over 10 weeks (20 Jan – 31 Mar 2026), with evaluation through surveys, group reflections, and performance analytics.
12-Jan-2026 - 31-Jan-2026
Building Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) through Reading Groups
Porteous, Holly (Principal Investigator) Mushtaq, Iram (Co-investigator) Hall, Michaela (Co-investigator)
£785 from the Learning and Teaching Fund to run an end of year event for the SBS EDI Pedagogy Reading Group.
05-Jan-2026 - 08-Jan-2026
Celebrating Feminist and Anti-racist Pedagogies in Practice bell hooks's Teaching to Transgress 30 Years on
Koobak, Redi (Co-investigator) Porteous, Holly (Co-investigator) Ivancheva, Mariya (Co-investigator)
This was an Engage with Strathclyde event that celebrated the 30th anniversary of bell hooks’s classic work "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" (1994). It brought together a diverse range of educators and practitioners to discuss and reflect on their experiences of teaching and learning in different contexts in academia and beyond.

The event centred around a roundtable about feminist and anti-racist pedagogies, followed by groupwork to reflect on our own experiences of learning and teaching, using prompts from "Teaching to Transgress".
29-Jan-2024 - 29-Jan-2024

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Dr Holly Porteous
Teaching Fellow
Marketing

Email: holly.porteous@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3696