Linda Scott

Qualifications

Honors and awards

Membership of external committees

Research interests and expertise

Research interests include climate change , bird conservation , misuses of surveillance and graphic novel adaptations of classic novels, psychology, colonialism, transatlantic slave trade, trauma.

Participating in a field trip to Malta as part of the 'Ghosts of Gone Birds' creative army in 2014 to monitor the annual bird hunt, became the catalyst for an active interest in conservation, ecology and issue based research .

Linda has presented papers at conference internationally in Northern Portugal and been published in conference publications at Illustration and animation conferences at CONFIA 15,16,17,18 ,19, 23 and in 2020 and 2021 she participated in the online event.

Further outputs include presenting papers at conferences at the University of Lorraine in 2017 and in Dijon in 2019.

She has presented internationally at conferences and had research published for CONFIA annually from 2015 to her most recent presentation in 2023. Her research paper on the theme of Adaptation and Illustration was published in Polysemes a peer reviewed research journal.

Research topics

• War Trauma /Graphic Novels
• Transatlantic Slave Trade
• Climate change and the role of illustration
• Exploring the impact of Outsider Art on contemporary Illustration
• Ghosts Of Gone Birds: Raising awareness of the potential extinction of endangered species of birds
• Illustration and Adaptation
• Jungian Shadow Theory and Illustrated Narratives
• Philosophy for children using illustrated narratives to teach critical inquiry

Areas of teaching

• dissertation
• Editing
• Illustration.
• narrative design
• Publishing
• theory
• Visual Communication

Courses taught

• BA(Hons) Illustration

Engagement with organisations which contribute to the development of educational, cultural or socio-economic policies in Cornwall

In June 2024 , a body of work produced by Second year Illustration students during Modules IL202 and IL210 was exhibited at the Newlyn Art Gallery. The catalyst was a visual research field trip led by award winning Reportage Artist Olivier Kugler and myself to Newlyn Fishing Port. Creative workshops delivered by the students were hosted at the Studio Space at the gallery and our students worked with local Newlyn School pupils.

During 2024 , our second year Illustration students participated in a collaborative project with partners from 'The Ladder 'in Redruth and students from the Journalism course at Falmouth to illustrate a newspaper delivered to every household in the town , to forge community and raise awareness of related events in the area.

Intellectual property

Illustration spanning more than twenty years.

Business start ups

Linda Scott Illustration

Business engagement case studies

The Bristol Collaboration project, 2017
Collaboration with Dave Bain / Falmouth University Alumni

Dave Bain is a graduate of Falmouth, living and working in Bristol. Dave practises as an Illustrator and has also set up Illustration studios in the Stokes Croft area of Bristol and is responsible for setting up Illustration collectives in Bristol. In 2017, myself and Natalie Hayes collaborated with Dave to develop a study trip for Level 2 students to visit Bristol. Dave acted as Co-Ordinator and together we developed an itinerary of student visits to Illustrator / Artist studios including Hamilton House , Jamaica Street Studios and Space Gallery, where Dave currently has a studio. A brief was devised, related to the theme of 'Regeneration' and work produced in response to this was exhibited on the final day of the trip in the gallery area of Space studio.

A workshop was delivered by Tom Newell of Limbic Cinema ( in which drawings made by students were converted digitally and projected onto both 3D and 2D formats. One of the primary purposes of the project was to introduce students to the concept of locating as a professional in Bristol as an alternative to London. We have a large alumni presence in Bristol and the trip was conceived to strengthen these connected communities of practitioners with our students.

Independent professional practice

Linda's illustration career spans almost thirty years ,mainly within the editorial field for publications including Times Educational Supplement, Elle Magazine (UK and France), The Independent Newspaper, Jamie Magazine (UK and Holland), Resurgence And Ecologist Magazine, Radio Times and several BBC titles. Music industry commissions have come from BMG, Virgin Records and World Circuit Records. Commissions within the areas of advertising include Pret A Manger and United Emirates Airlines, design for Southwark Council and Abbey National, publishing for Heinemann, Scholastic and The Ivy Press and public art projects, including Jack's Cows in Cornwall and creating media workshops for videos used to train teachers for DCA Libya.

Social, community and cultural engagement

Linda has exhibited at venues including the ICA, London Transport Museum, Wiliam Morris Museum, House of Illustration and Rochelle Gallery in London, The Museum in the Park, Stroud and Manchest Metropolitan University.

In October 2023, Linda and highly regarded Reportage Illustrator Olivier Kugler, took a group of second year Illustration students to Newlyn Fishing Port where they were provided with invaluable information from Julian Ware and Eddie Fletcher from the Fishermen's Mission and also visited Rich Adams at Argoe , a restaurant specialising in fish caught in Newlyn  where they learned about Rich's connection with Newlyn and the ambitions of the restaurant. Students also visited other restaurants in the area. work developed for the project will be exhibited at the Newlyn Gallery in the spring of 2024.

Funding for this project was awarded by KEF following  a proposal that Linda submitted for the project in 2023 and which, without , the project would not have gone ahead.

Engagement with professional associations and societies

Linda is a member of the Scientific Committee for CONFIA and over the past few years has been involved with blind reviewing conference papers and moderating panels.

In 2023 Linda also reviewed a research paper for The Journal of Illustration.

Professional esteem indicators