Harry Ross

Harry uses creative and practice-based research methods to examine the application, use and utility of the arts to connect the military community and uniformed services with wider society.

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Background

Harry is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and producer working across opera, public realm projects, and socially engaged performance.

From 2021-24 he led the British Army’s Art and Engagement programme in Scotland, earning the British Army a Fringe First and the Scottish Arts Club Award for best Scottish Production and he currently serves in the British Army Reserve as a Specialist Advisor in Creative Production.

Over a twenty-five-year career he has had work presented at or commissioned by:

• Berlin Month of Performance Art
• British Council
• Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
• The National Archives
• National Trust
• New National Theatre Tokyo
• New York Philharmonic Orchestra
• Royal Opera House
• Saatchi Gallery
• Scottish Opera
• Salzburg Festival
• Spoleto Festival
• Shakespeare’s Globe
• the V&A.

He was the founding producer of Secret Cinema.

Research interests

• Military Art and Culture
• Veterans and Families
• Narrative and Storytelling
• Art and Public Health

Areas of expertise

• Theatre
• Fine Art
• Curation
• Applied Art in Public Health

Qualifications

• BMus (hons) Voice and Composition, Trinity Laban
• MA Performing Public Space, Fontys Academy of Fine and Performing Arts, Tilburg
• Graduate Certificate in Digital Business, University of Abertay Dundee
• Graduate Certificate in Film, Grays’ School of Art, Aberdeen
• Post Graduate Certificate in Education, Goldsmith’s College University of London
• Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education, University of Dundee
• Post Graduate Diploma in Professional Studies, Faculty of Health Science, The Robert Gordon University

Memberships, editorial boards

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
• Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health
• Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
• Fellow of the Inter University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society
• Member of the British Computer Society
• AI Practitioner in Residence, The Alan Turing Institute

Media experience

• Front Row, BBC Radio 4
• Today, BBC Radio 4
• An Là, BBC Alba
• Forces News, BFBS
• I24 News
• Tagesschau, ARD 1