Dr Clare Devaney is a Research Fellow with GSA Rural Lab. Rural Lab is a research-led centre for innovation, enterprise and knowledge exchange, based at the GSA Highlands & Islands campus. Its research portfolio explores the concepts of rurality and ruralness, and is grounded in rural heritages, traditions and communities of place. Clare's primary research interest is time. Her work explores the interrelationship between time, space and place through multiple perspectives including systems rhythms, poetry and dynamics; dialectics and change; materialist and multi-dimensional temporality; and cultural heritages and futures. Clare's doctoral research explores the role of cultural heritage in embedding place-driven innovation, presenting a new taxonomy for place and novel four-dimensional economic framework, characterised as ‘A Fourth Way’. Her proposal to develop an alternative economic measurement system to GDP on this basis was published as a finalist in the 2017 Global Indigo Prize for Economics and is the subject of her two TEDx talks (TEDxBrum in 2017 and TEDxUoChester in 2018). The concept is further extended in her first book, ‘Panonomics’, which was published on global release with Palgrave Macmillan in 2021. Clare's professional career combines significant industry, policy and academic experience. She has held regional leadership roles in innovation and economic development with the Greater Manchester and Liverpool City Regions, and most recently with the UK Government as Strategic Lead for Place and Culture in the North of England. She is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College and GSA's Peer Review Council. PhD 'A Fourth Way: The role of cultural heritage in embedding place-driven innovation' University of Salford 2021 MA/BA English Literature St Catharine's College, University of Cambridge