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Dateline: 4th September, 2006
Scots Critic Joins Uni Staff Queen Margaret University College has announced that drama critic and journalist Joyce McMillan is to join their School of Drama and Creative Industries in September as a part-time Visiting Professor. Professor McMillan is chief theatre critic of The Scotsman newspaper, Edinburgh, and also writes a political/social commentary column for the paper. She has been a political and arts columnist, theatre critic and broadcaster for 20 years, living in Edinburgh and working for various Scottish and London-based newspapers, as well as broadcasting regularly on BBC Radio Scotland and Radio 4. Her history of the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, was published in 1988. She has been involved in Scottish and European campaigns for democracy and human rights, was a member in 1998-99 of the Consultative Steering Group on procedures for the new Scottish Parliament, and is currently Chair of the Hansard Society Working Group in Scotland. In 2000, she received an honorary degree of D. Litt. from Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, for her services to Scottish theatre and public life.Professor McMillan will teach, research, and participate in the reshaping of drama and humanities education in Scotland. This is the second major appointment for the drama school in recent months. In June television producer and academic specialist Dr David Dunn was appointed Head of School, succeeding Professor Maggie Kinloch. Both appointments will bring new dimensions to the school's work in the period of change that lies ahead. In September 2007, the drama school will relocate with the rest of Queen Margaret to a new campus at Craighall, leaving the Gateway Theatre site which has been their base since 1997. The School will use the Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh, and other theatre venues in Edinburgh, Glasgow and elsewhere in Scotland for full-scale productions, and will also have purpose-built studio, rehearsal and production facilities on the new campus. Professor McMillan will be closely involved in developing Queen Margaret's new approach to conservatoire education in drama, provided in Scotland only at Queen Margaret and the RSAMD. Queen Margaret will now lead the refashioning of conservatoire teaching to bring it into line with contemporary developments in learning and teaching, while working within the policy of the Scottish Funding Council not to fund conservatoire teaching for drama. It is hoped that the physical reintegration of the Drama School with the rest of the university at Craighall will also enable significant new collaboration between the school and other specialist disciplines. Queen Margaret Principal, Professor Anthony Cohen, said, "Professor's McMillan's appointment is hugely significant for us. Our School of Drama & Creative Industries is in a process of really significant change, charting new directions and practice in drama education. To have with us an authority of Joyce's distinction and experience to help to develop this process will be an enormous benefit to colleagues, to the students and, ultimately to Scottish theatre." Professor McMillan said, "I am delighted to be joining a School which has made such a huge contribution to Scotland's cultural life in recent years. I hope to be able to play a useful role in helping the school to retain its energy and focus through the changes that lie ahead, and above all in strengthening its practical and creative relationship with a Scottish theatre scene that is becoming more vibrant by the day." Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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