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Full CV of Alastair McIntosh, Scotland
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This is a full academic c.v. - for a 2-page version, click here Alastair
McIntosh’s CURRICULUM VITAE
(as of Autumn 2007)
1. FULL NAME: McIntosh, Alastair Iain 2. DATE OF BIRTH: 17th November 1955 3.
ADDRESS:
26 Luss Road, Drumoyne, Glasgow G51 3YD, Scotland Tel: 0141 445 8750
4.
MARITAL STATUS: Married
to Vérène
Nicolas
5. EDUCATION: 5.1. Primary School (1960-67) Leurbost Junior-Secondary School, Leurbost Village (my home village), North Lochs, Isle of Lewis. 5.2. Secondary School (1967-73) The Nicolson Institute, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis. Highers in physics, chemistry, maths, geography and English. 5.3. Undergraduate Studies, University Of Aberdeen (1973-77), graduated with Degree of Bachelor of Science (BSc), Designated in Geography; sub-majoring in Moral Philosophy and Psychology. (Aberdeen University's "designated" degree represents the Scots generalist tradition that allowed study of a wide range of subjects) 5.3.1. Degree examination passes: June '74: Geography (1), Geology (1), Physics (1) June '75: Geography (2), Moral Philosophy (ordinary) June '76: Geography (3), Psychology (ordinary) June '77: Psychology (advanced), Moral Philosophy (advanced) 5.3.2. Executive member of the Students' Representative Council (SRC) included experience on University committees as follows: Faculty of Science Committee (SRC Convenor) World University Service (Chairperson) Students' Book Agency (Convenor) Senatus/Student Consultative Committee Degree Regulations (Science) Committee University Chapel Committee University Library Committee Aberdeen Assoc. of Social Service (SRC representative) 5.3.3. Other activities at Aberdeen University included being: Founder/President of the Parapsychological Society Secretary of the Amnesty International Society Member of the Potholing and Caving Club Member of the Philosophical Society 5.3.4. Vacation employment included crofting work, factory shift work processing seaweed and work as a ghillie on salmon lochs and red deer stalking with hill ponies on estates at home on Lewis. 5.4. Postgraduate Studies 5.4.1. University Of Edinburgh, (Oct. 1980 - Sep. 1981), graduated with the Degree of Master of Business Administration (MBA), Faculty of Social Science (Scottish Business School).Core subjects: General Management, Marketing & Business Policy, Financial & Cost Accounting, Business Economics (micro/macro), Business Statistics, Computing for Management, Business Law, Organisational Behaviour and Industrial Relations. Specialised Options: Business Finance & Investment, Management Accounting, Management Science. Dissertation Topic: The Financial Management and Policies of Major Aid Agencies 5.4.2. University of Ulster: Because I have chosen to be an academic generalist, I have never felt moved to do a PhD, though I have supervised several as a staff member of the University of Edinburgh. However, a collection of my published work is being considered for the award of PhD by publications by the Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages, Faculty of Arts, University of Ulster which has also made me a Fellow of their institute. I hope for the PhD to be awarded in 2008 on the theme: Contributions of liberation theology to community empowerment in the context of Scottish land reform 1991 - 2003. 5.4.3. University of Strathclyde: In 2006 given the honorary post of Visiting Professor of Human Ecology at the Department of Geography and Sociology, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. This is the first such recognition of human ecology in a Scottish university. 6. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY (in chronological order): 6.l. Voluntary Service Overseas (November 1977 - January 1980): deputy-head teacher of St. Peter's Extension School, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea. Responsibilities included school finance, administration, teaching a range of subjects and relocating the site of school for 240 boarding students with six staff. In final 3 months was responsible for completing the Bema 25kva micro-hydro power scheme including installation of all electrical plant, three phase site wiring for village, installation of some hydraulic machinery, finalising concreting work on raceway and penstock, voltage stabilisation system and survey work on Haubango 5kva micro hydro. 6.2. Scottish Organiser With Lepra, The British Leprosy Relief Association (September 1981 - June 1984): responsibilities and achievements included fundraising (at 51% over the requisite cost:benefit ratio) and development education, including talks to approximately 34,000 people reached through some 200 schools and 50 adult groups. Also advised on electrical power requirements of leprosy control stations. 6.3. Financial Adviser And Company Secretary With The South Pacific Appropriate Technology Foundation (Spatf), (July 1984 - May 1986): responsibilities included assisting and advising executive director, financial control of organisation turning over £1.3 million with 85 direct employees, full computerisaion including accounts, staff training, liaison with government’s Department of Trade and Industry and management advice to a wide range of appropriate technology projects including a scrap metal recycling foundry, two small business development centres, a crafts marketing centre, the Liklik Buk information centre, Village Equipment Suppliers and the University of Technology’s Appropriate Technology Development Institute. 6.4. Co-Director Of Uk Foundation For The Peoples Of The South Pacific And Business Adviser To The Iona Community, (July 1986 - March 1990): 6.4.1. With UKFSP my work included: · Developing from scratch a funding base in excess of £100,000 per annum from other charitable organisations, the ODA and the EC for conscientisation, environmental, appropriate technology and small scale entrepreneurial development work predominantly in the Melanesian nations of the South Pacific. · Initiating the Pacific Regional Sustainable Forestry Programme between Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands, as featured on p.59 of the British Government’s 1990 White Paper on the Environment.
· Serving on the Education and Promotion Committee of the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund, the Steering Committee of Scottish Churches Action for World Development, the Planning Group of the Scottish South-North Network for Cultures and Development, and a founding Trustee of Scottish Peace House. 6.4.2. With the Iona Community responsibilities included: · Advising the Leader and Council on strategic planning, management structures, business policy and marketing for Iona Abbey, the MacLeod Centre on Iona, Camas Adventure Camp on Mull, Wild Goose Publications, etc.. · Raising nearly a quarter of a million pounds from sources including the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, trusts, industry and individuals.
· Introducing computers into the organisation, training staff and setting up electronic mail networks.
· Representing the Community on the European Coordinating Committee for Unemployed and Disadvantaged Youth, Brussels.
6.5 Teaching Director, Centre For Human Ecology, University Of Edinburgh, (April 1990 - October 1996): Responsibilities included: · With Ulrich Loening (then director), establishing the first British MSc course in human ecology through the Institute of Ecology and Resource Management, Faculty of Science and Engineering. Serving as course director with average of ten students since 1992. · Teaching modules in Ecological Ethics & Education, Organisational Finance and Management, Principles of Human Ecology and Management of Sustainable Development. Also, overseeing British Council funded advanced professional training courses in sustainable development for mainly government and NGO professionals from the South - normally two per year.
· Supervising an average of 4 PhD students a year.
· Research into psychospiritual aspects of sustainable livelihood, with focus on re-establishing relationship between people and the land through conscientisation-based empowerment methodologies.
· Co-ordinating Edinburgh University’s widely influential 1991 review of all environmental teaching, resulting in “Environmental Education for Adaptation” report.
· Overseeing administration and raising necessary funds and other inputs to maintain Centre for Human Ecology’s ethos of conviviality appropriate to creative academic community. 6.6 Work Related To Being A Fellow Of The Centre For Human Ecology And Freelance Writer, Broadcaster, Speaker, Researcher And Activist, (October 1996 - present): In 1996 the Centre for Human Ecology
developed into an independent academic network, outside of Edinburgh University
and accredited by the Open University, in order to maintain,
uncompromised, what a New Scientist editorial
described (4-5-96) as its “tradition of fearless inquiry.” Since that time I
have worked mostly freelance as a Fellow of the Centre and, during an emergency
period, I stepped temporarily back in as its Executive Director. Activities have
included: · Action for Transformation (1996 - March 2001): I was funded by the Christendom and Russell Trusts to write Soil and Soul, and then by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust for three years from April 1998 to work on Action for Transformation, a programme of community empowerment through liberation theology involving a) Land reform, b) Blocking the proposed superquarry on the Isle of Harris, c) Urban ecology and empowerment with the GalGael Trust, d) People & Parliament national values discernment process and e) Combatting (with the Glasgow Mosque). Details of much of this work will be found reflected in my publications for the period.
· Executive Director of the CHE (2001): during a crucial period of restructuring in 2001. This resulted in the Centre's academic programme being placed onto a firm footing, the financial position stabilised, and funds being raised to appoint a full-time Executive Director so that I could return to other work.
· Academic Board, Teaching and MSc Curriculum Development (1996 to present): I played a lead role in preparing the documentation that led to the CHE's full academic accreditation by the Open University Validation Unit and to the re-launch of the MSc in Human Ecology (now in partnership with Strathclyde University). I wrote the curriculum and teach on one of the three core modules, Land, Self and Community, and have developed a new option module, Spiritual Activism. Academic Board work includes sitting on the Examination and other sub-committees. Teaching includes supervising about 3 student theses per annum. The CHE masters programme now has some 50 students on it, mostly part-time - see www.che.ac.uk .
· Cultural Psychotherapy, Identity and Racism (1996
to present): The
CHE's main non-academic work is the Community Empowerment Programme, which works
with ethnic minorities, women's groups and marginalised peoples. I am Honorary
Advisor to this, and have played a key role in CHE's research looking at
national identity and ethnicity - particularly the reports Who's a Real Scot?
Embracing Multicultural Scotland (2000) and the Dream Job report (due
September 2005, on ethnic minority employment issues). My work on "cultural
psychotherapy" (the notion that whole cultures need to undergo a
psychotherapeutic-like process of recovering and reconciling their histories)
has been the focus of a BBC 2 TV documentary, The Whole Shebang,
broadcast in March 2002, and related themes are drawn out in other broadcasting
work, such as presenting the 4-part Voices for Peace series on BBC Radio
Scotland in March 2003, which includes interviews with Nobel Peace Prize winners
Mairead Corrigan Maguire and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. · Nonviolence Teaching at Military Staff College (1997 to present): I guest lecture on both the Initial and the Advanced Command & Staff Courses at Britain’s Defence Academy, the Joint Services Command & Staff College at Shrivenham. In addition this year, I will be speaking to warrant officers and staff at the Army Training Regiment Bassingbourne. Typical themes include The Dynamics of Violence and Nonviolence and The Case Against Weapons of Mass Destruction. As of this year, these lectures will have reached some 4,000 military officers.
· Corporate Social Responsibility with Lafarge (2004 onwards): Having persuaded Lafarge to withdraw its proposal for a coastal superquarry in a National Scenic Area on the Isle of Harris, I now, after consultation with fellow campaigners, serve (unpaid) on the company’s Sustainability Stakeholder Panel. · Speaking and Writing: I run workshops on a wide range of themes relevant to human ecology - sustainable development, community, spiritual activism, etc., and speak and write in contexts as indicated below. Since autumn 2005 I have been a regular contributor for BBC Radio Scotland’s Thought for the Day slot, presenting 7 - 10 pieces annually on peak-time current affairs radio.
7. Publications - Books And Articles I have published over 170 academic papers, newspaper articles and books - Click here to view complete listing and available downloads. (This may be appended). Places of publication include through the United Nations Environment Programme, Russian Academy of Sciences (Economics Dept.), Journal of Law & Religion, Encyclopaedia of Religion & Nature, Journal of Accounting, Business & Financial History, Interculture, The Ecologist, Scottish Affairs, Theology in Scotland, Environmental Values, ECOS, Oceania, Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, Christian Parapsychologist, Third Way, The Trumpeter, Edinburgh Review, New Internationalist, Cencrastus, Fourth World Review, Resurgence, Fishing News, Fishing Monthly, Journal of Contemporary Health, Ecotheology, Directory of Social Change, Reforesting Scotland and The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday, The Herald, The Guardian and, The Stornoway Gazette. I serve on the editorial boards of Tikkun (the progressive Jewish and interfaith magazine) and of the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture. Current work (2007-08) is on a book commissioned by the leading Scottish publisher, Birlinn, on climate change and the human condition.
8. TV & Radio Broadcasts (except short interviews; most recent first)
23. Thought for the Day – regularly from August 2005, BBC Radio Scotland. 22. Presentor of Voices for Peace, BBC Radio Scotland, comprising 4 26-minute programmes featuring peace work from Israel/Palestine, South Africa, Northern Ireland and Sri Lanka, including interviews with Nobel Peace Prize winners Mairead Corrigan Maguire and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
21. Interviewed for BBC Radio 4 programme made by Sandra Sykes and Steve Chalkie about the cultural regeneration work of the GalGael Trust, Glasgow, of which I am a founding trustee.
20. Guest in the BBC 1 TV Iraq Debate, broadcast 8.30 p.m. 12 February 2003.
19. Without Prejudice? Channel 4 gameshow, broadcast 9.10 p.m. 25 January 2003 - click here for details.
18. In Confidence, a 30 minute interview with me by Richard Holloway, former Bishop of Edinburgh, broadcast on STV 15-16 December 2002. Also, panel participation in other STV religious/ethical broadcasts.
17. The Whole Shebang (Programme 3), BBC 2 TV, broadcast 7.30 p.m. 11 March 2002, relating my work on "cultural psychotherapy" to black America and Israel/Palestine.
16. Multiple TV and radio discussion programmes, including BBC Asia service and Lesley Riddoch show on launch of the Embracing Multicultural Scotland report, March 2000, and related items concerned with national identity, culture and ethnic inclusion.
15. The Colin Bell Show, BBC Radio Scotland, 1999, on power in the British establishment, and on the condition of Scottish culture.
14. BBC 2 TV’s Newsnight, covering my hosting of the Scottish Landowner’s Federation’s “right of reply” to the address that I delivered to them on 10 June 1998, broadcast on the “Glorious 12th” August 1998.
13. Filmed by BBC for 2-part programme on Celtic contribution to Scottish Parliament in dialogue with Booker Prizewinner, James Kelman, and Canon Kenyon Wright, convenor of the Scottish Constitutional Convention, broadcast autumn 1998.
12. 1996, various BBC programmes including World Service on land ownership, community empowerment and issues in higher education, including contributions to Channel 4’s “Stinking Rich” programme featuring landownership on the Isle of Eigg.
11. 1996, broadcast 21 January, Nature of Nature: Ecological Resistance Movements, Religion, Politics and Ethics, US Public Radio (some 140 stations), 30 minute interview in the Ian Flemming series, It’s to the Best of our Knowledge, towards hour-long broadcast focussed around University of Wisconsin Dept. of Religious Studies conference; discussing psychospiritual aspects of Highland clearances, American colonisation, and transatlantic intergenerational effect on native peoples.
10. 1994, 26 December, Scotland’s Islands, BBC Radio Scotland, 10 minute feature on Isle of Eigg and Scotland’s land ownership debate.
9. 1994, 7th December, Costing the Earth: ecopsychology, BBC Radio 4, 15 minutes on ecopsychology of the Pollok Free State M77 motorway protest.
8. 1994, broadcast December, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 20 minute Fifth Estate TV documentary on Warrior Chief Stone Eagle’s visit to Isle of Eigg community land ownership bid and Harris superquarry public inquiry.
7. 1994, recorded 26th and 27th October, various current affairs analysis programmes, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio Montreal and Nova Scotia, regarding Scottish land ownership and Stone Eagle’s testimony to Harris superquarry inquiry.
6. 1994, 26 October and previous 2 weeks, Whose Land is it Anyway? BBC 2 TV, contributions on land ownership to 3 part series.
5. 1994, 19 July, Dirty News, BBC Radio 5, 15 minute debate with Christopher Bourne-Arton, council member of the English Country Landowners Association about land ownership and community dis/empowerment.
4. 1994, 28 February, Speaking Out, BBC Radio Scotland, seven-minute introduction to the social history of the Highland land question, as prelude to broadcast debate between the people of Eigg and their laird.
3. 1992, 14 December, Nature: Do Sporting Estates have a Future, BBC Radio Scotland, debate with Lord Pearson of Rannoch and Martin Mathers of Worldwide Fund for, 27 minutes (repeated twice). 2. 1992, summer, Speaking Out, BBC Radio Scotland, debate on land ownership with the Laird of Eigg, 55 minutes.
1. 1990, October (One World Week), Evening Call, Scottish TV, series of five two-minute evening religious reflection programmes.
9. MAINCONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, ADDRESSES, ETC. (in chronological order):
10. OTHER INTERESTS, COMMITTEES, ETC. NOT ALREADY INDICATED
10.1 Member of the Religious
Society of Friends (the Quakers).
10.2 Founding and community-elected trustee of the Isle of Eigg Trust (Scottish community land restitution).
10.3 Founding trustee, Peace House Trust (Iona Community & Quakers).
10.4 Founding trustee of the GalGael Trust for indigenous artesan skills and cultural regeneration, Glasgow.
10.5 Member of Board of Management, Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (Circa 1990 to 1999), including chairing Projects Committee (budget c. £2 million).
10.6 Initiator of theological testimony with Prof. D. MacLeod and Warrior Chief Stone Eagle in defence of Mt. Roinebhal and surrounding community at Harris Superquarry Public Inquiry, 1991 - 1995.
10.7. Advisor to Glasgow Mosque on interfaith relations, Gulf War and Bosnia. Advisor to Catholic Commission on Justice and Peace working party on Development. Consultant to Archbishop (subsequently Cardinal) Winning on strategic planning 1989-90. Honorary business advisor to Iona Community, 1990-94. Associate member of Iona Community.
10.8 Initiator and co-editor of 1991 GulfWatch computer networked alternative news service as 1987-94 steering committee member of Scottish Churches Action for World Development.
10.9 Notwithstanding being no
longer on the staff of Edinburgh University, I continued to play a role within
the Faculty of Science and Engineering teaching and examining a 10 hour course
in accountancy for resource managers; also teaching on a contract basis in Women
in Development and Sustainable Development in Social Forestry (professional
training course). I have had an ongoing supervisory role with several PhDs and
an have been contracted as an examiner for MSc dissertations in resource
management. 10.10 Patron of the Iona Community’s Growing Hope appeal along with Baroness Smith and Chris Bonnington (2003 to present).
11. OTHER SKILLS AND BIODATA
11.1 Conversant and literate in Papua New Guinea Tok Pisin, able to understand Solomon Islands Pidgin and Vanuatuan Bislama. Basic conversational French.
11.2 Current car and motor-cycle licence.
11.3 Play traditional and contemporary Celtic music.
11.4 Microsoft Office 2000 applications, Sagesoft Accountant, MYOB, Keyboard touchtype @ 100 w.p.m..
11.5 Full driving licence, groups
A, D, E.
12. REFEREES (Nb. - please check for updates)
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