Gillian is a Senior Research Fellow who joined the Yunus Centre in 2014. Her current research investigates the history of social enterprise in Scotland. To date, this research has traced the development of Scotland’s social economy from the 1970s.
From 2014 to 2018 Gillian worked on the CommonHealth research programme. From 2018-2021, working closely with the GCU Archive Centre, she has been PI on a Scottish Government funded project to develop the Social Enterprise Collection (Scotland). Connected to this work, she also contributes to a project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund with Magic Torch Comics. Gillian's project is funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and investigates the history of Scotland's social economy from deindustrialisation to COVID-19.
Gillian is part of the supervision team for two doctoral projects investigating aspects of the history of social enterprise.