Margaret Grieco, Professor of Transport and Society, Napier University, Edinburgh
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Professor Margaret Grieco is Britain's first Professor of Transport and Society. She holds her
doctorate from the University of Oxford and was educated in part at Inverness Royal Academy. She held her first academic appointment at the University of Aberdeen at the
Institute for the Study of Sparsely Populated Areas and presently holds professorial appointments at Napier University, Edinburgh and Cornell University, USA. She has worked within the field of transport and sustainability since 1986 having undertaken work for the Department of the Environment on congestion and having been a staff member at the
World Bank. She consulted to the Scottish Office on the social impact of north sea oil in the mid 1970s and since that time has been concerned with issues of social sustainability and social equity in respect of the management of the environment. Currently, she is researching the
potential for and development of inclusive museum practice as a contribution to cultural sustainability. She is on the academic advisory committee of the Glasgow Museum of Transport.
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Inclusive heritage practice - anchoring tourism in sustainable community practice.
This presentation will, using regional case studies, highlight gaps in current regional heritage practices in respect of heritage signing and the development of heritage trails in respect of the anchoring of tourist revenue and in respect of the development of the public consciousness of history. It will provide guidelines on better practices of community engagement, community participation and community resource development in respect of the culturally appropriate management of heritage. The presentation will argue that current governance structures are not well designed to promote inclusive heritage practice and that there is a need for explicit thinking on these issues within the cultural policies of regional government, national government and European institutions.
