Ullrich Kockel is Professor of Creative Ethnology at UHI. He taught at Leeds Polytechnic and University College Galway before receiving his PhD from the University of Liverpool, where he was appointed to the first-ever full-time post in Irish Studies at a British university. Ullrich also taught Geography at University College Cork for ten years. Subsequently he held chairs in European Studies (University of the West of England, 2000-5), Ethnology and Folklife (University of Ulster, 2005-12), and Cultural Ecology and Sustainability (Heriot-Watt University, 2012-21). A Visiting Professor at the Center for Social Anthropology, Vytautas Magnus University Kaunas, Lithuania, since 2011, and at the Latvian Academy of Culture (2020-22), he was President of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF, 2008-13) and was elected to the Royal Irish Academy in 2012.

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