Ross Curran

Global Head of Department: Marketing and Opertations 

Dr. Ross Curran is the Global Head of the Department of Marketing and Operations at Heriot-Watt University. Ross has served as a programme director on programmes in Digital Marketing, and leads several undergraduate and postgraduate courses delivered across Heriot-Watt’s three campus locations. Ross has published in a range of leading academic journals, and practitioner media and has delivered Executive Education programmes to a range of external organizations. 

Ross serves as an external examiner, and is a Fellow of the Higher Educaton Academy.  

Dr Ross Curran’s research focus is two-fold; the intersection between tourism and volunteering, and the internationalisation of teaching pedagogy in business. He is interested in how visitor and volunteer experiences can be enhanced through leveraging inherent non-profit organisational or visitor-site characteristics such as imbued heritage sustainably. This aligns with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically in relation to reducing inequalities, promoting decent work and economic growth, and sustainable work and communities. His pedagogical research focuses on developing cross-cultural entrepreneurial education.