In March 2016 Boyle was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's National Academy for science and letters.
[12][13] The centerpiece of the Cultural Commission's report – issued after a year of investigation and deliberations – was a recommendation that the government increase arts spending by £100 million (approximately $190 million), enshrine "cultural rights," and overhaul and simplify the arts bureaucracy (including, ironically, by getting rid of the SAC, which Boyle had just left).
[14][15] Boyle had a public run-in with Scottish Culture Minister Patricia Ferguson when she announced her support for an Academy of Scotland just before the commission was set to unveil a similar policy.
[19][20] NLS is one of the world's leading research libraries and one of Scotland's premier cultural institutions.
[20] The collection includes copies of the Gutenberg Bible, the letter which Charles Darwin submitted with the manuscript of Origin of Species and the First Folio of Shakespeare.
[2][24] Currently Boyle is a director of the London public relations company Franklin Rae and for eight years was a member of the board of governors (known as the Court) of Edinburgh's Napier University.
[25] He has also held non-executive directorships on the boards of media company Wark Clements and Anareva, a boutique search consultancy.
When at the BBC, Boyle wrote many scripts for radio and a number of TV plays for educational television.