Dr Siún Carden
Research Fellow in the Centre for Rural Creativity, University of the Highlands and Islands
Her current research interests include the creative economy in rural contexts, maker cultures and Shetland textiles. She leads the ‘Communities of Practice’ module within the UHI MA in Art and Social Practice.
In 2018-19 Siún carried out a project called 'Micro-manufacturing and place-based maker cultures: textile production and skill transmission in Shetland and the west of Ireland', funded with a Carnegie Trust Research Incentive Grant.
In 2016-17 Siún conducted a study of the contemporary value of Shetland hand knitting in partnership with a voluntary organisation, ShetlandPeerieMakkers.
From 2013-2016 she was Research Assistant on the Leverhulme-funded project ‘Plantation to Peace: Derry/Londonderry as the UK’s first City of Culture’ in the School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Queen’s University Belfast.
Her PhD research in Social Anthropology (QUB, 2010) examined the redevelopment of Belfast’s Falls Road area as an Irish language-themed cultural hub.
Siún’s research interests include creative industries, place and space, tourism and textile making.
She previously worked as a research assistant on the Leverhulme-funded project ‘From Plantation to Peace: Derry/Londonderry as the UK’s first City of Culture’ at Queen’s University Belfast. Her PhD research in Social Anthropology (QUB, 2010) examined the redevelopment of Belfast’s Falls Road area as an Irish language-themed cultural hub. She has also written about Aran knitting in the context of Irish migration and tourism.