Professor Lynn-Sayers McHattie holds an AHRC funded PhD in Design from The Glasgow School of Art (2012). Lynn’s place-based research interests are located within geographically distributed and Indigenous, island communities. Her cross-cultural research explores craft and textile practice(s) as ‘cultural assets’, which connect to the landscape and culture of communities and the role design-led innovation can play in socio-cultural renewal. She focuses on the relationship between people, place and practice towards a deeper understanding of ‘tacit wisdom’ as a foundational concept. Her practice encompasses textiles as ‘knowledge artefacts’ that provide an interdisciplinary link between crafting conversations, materialities of place and ideologies of identity, which interact to inform a wider research agenda around the political economy of craft. Lynn is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College, Co-Director of the SGSAH Creative Economy Hub and sits on the Editorial Board of CoDesign Journal.