contact details
email: s.hannabuss@rgu.ac.uk
tel: 00 44 (0)1224 263067
tel: 00 44 (0)1224 263647

web site:
www.ontheedgeresearch.org

Dr STUART HANNABUSS
Research Associate, On the Edge Research

Biographical Statement
Stuart Hannabuss has moved through many incarnations in the course of a busy and protean professional and academic life. He completed two degrees in English and cultural history at Oxford University, including time at the Bodleian Library, and spent four years teaching English and music in London. In parallel with part-time work at the Victoria & Albert Museum Library, Stuart qualified in library and information studies at University College London and then worked as a librarian in London. He holds five further degrees (in management, marketing, education, counselling, and a doctorate in the making of meaning in organisational culture) and is a Chartered Secretary (ACIS).

Stuart became a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in 1989 and moved to Aberdeen to teach library and information management and media and literature studies. At the Aberdeen Business School, he taught courses and supervised research in information management and organisational studies, marketing and finance and statistics; he specialised in law (especially intellectual property and liability) and ethics, political communication, technology and culture, and book trade studies. Stuart has published and reviewed widely in all these fields and continues to do so. Between 2003 and 2006 he was a Governor of The Robert Gordon University with a special interest in HRM and health & safety.

Personal Statement
I have collaborated in funded research projects on professional decision-making and performance and personality, supervised numerous doctoral projects (on topics including history of libraries, journalistic ethnography, change in faith-based organisations, and Enlightenment architectural practice). I have examined (in several universities) doctoral theses in design and art practice and cultural history, taught critical theory and cultural politics, and was John Hill Burton Visiting Fellow at The Scottish Centre for the Book at Napier University between 2001-2.

I am currently a Research Associate with ‘On the Edge’ research at Gray’s School of Art and engaged in a wide range of research and writing, editorial and reviewing and TEFL activities. My current research interests include organisational narrative and epistemology, intellectual property and creativity, hermeneutic research methodologies, the ethics of aesthetics, postmodern theology, and business networking.

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