Dr Catherine Owen is a woman about town: you'll find her at a gig, chatting at a gallery opening, or hauling yet another Georgian chair home on the train to reupholster for the fun of it. By day, she's a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow's Adam Smith Business School, teaching Strategy and Risk Management. Her research asks what non-human actors - objects, spaces, systems - contribute to strategic outcomes, and her PhD used the Glasgow School of Art and the Mackintosh Building as a case study to illustrate how theories of material agency can further understanding of strategy. Catherine also consults widely across Scotland's creative and destination industries, including past work advising GSA on its internationalisation s ...