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Harry Ross

Harry Ross
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Visiting Research Fellow

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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Veterans and Families Institute for Military Social Research

Faculty:
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Social Care
Location:
Chelmsford
Areas of Expertise:
Arts and creative industries , Fine art
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