Professor Celia Duffy is the Senior Fellow in Engagement at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Celia is an avid collaborator, pianist, singer, coach, mentor and facilitator. As the first Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange at the RCS she played a key role in the conservatoire’s development as a research institution and the major reform of its undergraduate curriculum.

Always having followed a ‘squiggly’ career ranging from mainstream academia, corporate training, technology-assisted learning and research (when it was new 40 years ago) and institutional Senior Management she now enjoys being a freelance researcher, expert institutional reviewer and consultant. She is highly experienced in arts governance having chaired the boards of three professional music organisations including the Red Note Ensemble and is now Chair of the DASH Club which provides after school activities for young people with complex disabilities.

The focus of her current work, usually in a European context, is innovation in the specialist higher education music education sector and a shift towards greater societal engagement.

Otherwise she likes messing around on and in the water: outdoor swimming, fly fishing and sailing around the west coast of Scotland.