Professor Peter Reid is Director of the Centre for Stories, Place, and Northern Communities Research (SPEIR) at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. His own research focuses on two themes: (i) the quality, value, and impact of cultural services (particularly around the quality and impact of public libraries, and (ii) around cultural heritage and storytelling, community engagement and participation and retelling the ‘things we forgot to remember’ particularly in a North-East Scotland context. In 2018, he was part of the Natur consortium (European Year of Cultural Heritage) which brought together artists and archives from the UK and Nordic regions with his project Little Norway telling the stories of Norwegian and Danish exiles during the Second World War. The accompanying artist residency to this project created a soundscape using nature and local schoolchildren. He has been involved in developing models of archival storytelling and how stories can inspire contemporary creative and artistic practice (through the Northword / Storytagging project and Culbin: the disappeared village as part of Year of Scotland’s Stories 2022). The is currently working on retelling a village’s stories through commonplace sources. He is particularly interested in enhancing access to, and engagement with smaller community-based collections. He has a strong interest in the Doric dialect of NE Scotland and is a columnist for the Press and Journal newspaper in Aberdeen.