Dr Michael Smith Email & Phone Number

My background is in economic and regional development. I graduated from Strathclyde University in 1991-2 where I studied, Economics and Geography at Undergraduate level and Urban & Regional Development at Postgraduate level. After graduation and spending a year out travelling North America, I left Glasgow and went to work with the Highlands & Islands Enterprise Network in Stornoway as a Project Manager. In this job I worked with the full spectrum of local economic development stakeholders from community groups to the Scottish Government. The job involved working to develop the many sectors of the rural economy from transport to agriculture, fisheries, textiles, IT & telecoms, arts & culture and tourism, being involved in both policy development and implementation. I then joined Lews Castle College UHI in 1997 after almost 5 years working for the HIE Network. Since joining UHI, I have led the development and delivery of the fully online BSc (Hons) and MSc degrees in Sustainable Rural Development. In 2011 I completed a PhD on e-Learning although my research interests also include sustainable development in rural areas and I have had both external consultancy experience in this area developing regional strategy for a public partnership and developing European funding bids and contracted research experience too in the IT&Telecoms field. In 2017 I became the course manager for UHI's MSc postgraduate programme in Sustainable Rural Development. In my previous post (2013-17) I was employed by UHI in Inverness to develop the University's first accelerated Honours degree in Geography. Since then I have taken on a new role as a Head of Department for the Humanities department within the academic partner Lews Castle College UHI.Specialties: E-Learning, Web 2.0 and Sustainable Rural Development

Listed skills include Sustainable Development, Research, E Learning, Higher Education, and 13 others.