Michelle Watt

Michelle leads a team of exceptionally talented people in SPT’s Communications department. A graduate of Middlesex University (English and Communications BA hons) and Westminster University in London (MA Journalism), she is a dedicated PR professional with a career spanning 20 years. She has previously worked at the BBC in both London and Glasgow. Michelle is passionate about her work and is no stranger to supporting the installation of art in to public spaces. She successfully managed a public art project key to BBC Scotland’s smooth transition to a new home on the River Clyde. She is currently part of a small group passionate about delivering and promoting work by Scottish artists which will be commissioned for roll-out across the Subway in the next few years.

In her spare time Michelle enjoys singing and is learning to play tennis. She also devotes quite a bit of time to being a taxi driver for her 12 year old daughter’s myriad of social activities.


What's innovation good for?

"To contribute to Battle of Ideas is to add a few words to a giant, communal speech-bubble out of the gap-toothed mouth of British opinion. It is a strong reminder that the joys of free, uncalculated speech and the right to attack orthodoxies can in no way be assumed in 2012 – that we use them or lose them."
Piers Hellawell, composer; professor of composition, Queen’s University Belfast

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