Arts & International Affairs: Volume 2, Number 2 | 页面 10

University of Edinburgh AIA Advisory Board Edward Hollis Director of Research, Edinburgh College of Art Candace Jones Chair of Global Creative Enterprise, Business School Faith Liddell OBE Visiting Professor, Institute for International Cultural Relations Dorothy Miell Vice Principal and Head, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences The Institute for International Cultural Relations The IICR was established in ���� and is today situated in the School of Social and Political Science in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science. The IICR acts as a catalyst for interdisciplinary scholarship across the whole University, and as a bridge to practice. It also aims to connect with an internationally and interculturally diverse array of real-world communities, to help them face the many practical challenges they confront today. Direct engagement and partnerships with external decision-maker, policy and practitioner communities are a unique strength of the IICR’s educational and research programmes. This vision is summarised by the objective of the IICR to be both applied in focus and global in reach. This vision is reflected in the commitment of the IICR community to expand and deepen our connections to decision-maker, policy and practitioner communities across the planet. As part of the global objective, the IICR aims to grow into an international educational ambassador for excellence in innovation and leadership on the interfaces among arts, humanities, social sciences and public policy. A priority for the IICR is to expand the impact of our expertise and research to a global audience through interdisciplinary and methodological rigor. 9