Experience

Guildhall School of Music & Drama

• United Kingdom
• Performing Arts
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Postdoctoral Innovation Fellow: Evaluation

  • Jan 2021 - Present

  Develop Guildhall School of Music & Drama's ability to evaluate socially engaged artistic and educational work, in-line with its commitment towards Knowledge Exchange, and it's strategic plan. Be responsible for building the organisation’s capacity and capabilities in evaluating work, with a focus on socially engaged work, and work undertaken with strategic partners. Develop an approach or set of approaches to enable GSMD to implement a consistent and sustainable process for evaluating key work. Support the School, and up-skill staff, to be clear about the aims, success criteria and impacts for projects and groups e.g. artists, participants, publics and communities. Implement strategies and systems to develop the School’s culture around evaluation, working with key staff to embed evaluation practice and processes into project design from the outset. Show less

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  • Sep 2019 - Jan 2022

  - Full founding member of Institute for Social Impact Research in the Performing Arts. Convenor of Evaluation Working Group. Sit on Research Ethics Committee for GSMD and CUK. Sits on Knowledge Exchange Committee and Evaluation Sub Working Group. - Research outputs include article 'Embracing the Messiness: A Creative Approach to Participatory Arts Evaluation' soon to be published in Journal for Cultural Trends and Research Works event at GSMD- Research explores the unique contextual characteristics of three National Development Program regional locations and partnerships. Exploring the challenges and opportunities they present for cultural learning and the ways in which cultural learning projects (and the organisations who deliver them) can respond to and be shaped by these in order to improve accessibility, engagement and impact.-To support the work of Barbican Guildhall Creative Learning by carrying out core project evaluation activities - Work alongside Creative Learning team to compile and collate research findings into guiding principles for effective models of place-based partnership work in different contexts.- Deliver full research report as well as a more condensed, user-friendly format, for presentation at the symposium event following the end of the project. Show less



Freelance (Self employed)

• Writing and Editing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research & Evaluation Arts Consultant

  • Sep 2012 - Present

  • Evaluate the impact of a wide range of charity, arts and heritage projects across Britain and provide written evaluation and best practice reports which can be shared widely with stakeholders, partners and funders. • Provide creative ideas for future projects and consult on funding applications. • Draft evaluation frameworks and Theory of Change models for clients. • Clients have included Barbican Centre London, The Drive Project, Big Ideas Company, On the Verge, Theatre Royal Haymarket Masterclass Trust, Royal British Legion, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, Southbank Centre. • Funders have included Heritage Lottery Fund, Royal British Legion, Blesma, Big Lottery, Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), Arts Impact Fund, Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Show less



Conscience VC

• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 700 & Above Employee

• Theatre Practitioner

  • Sep 2008 - Present

  Delivered masterclasses in ‘Devising and Improvisation’ and ‘Character Development’ to Extraordinary Bodies Young Artist, Diverse City. Various client, Extraordinary Bodies Young Artists, Diverse City ‘Battle for the Winds’ part of 2012 Cultural Olympiad, own projects with young people, ‘Perform;’, ‘Helen O’Grady Drama Academy’, AfriKids, Northern Ghana. Delivered masterclasses in ‘Devising and Improvisation’ and ‘Character Development’ to Extraordinary Bodies Young Artist, Diverse City. Various client, Extraordinary Bodies Young Artists, Diverse City ‘Battle for the Winds’ part of 2012 Cultural Olympiad, own projects with young people, ‘Perform;’, ‘Helen O’Grady Drama Academy’, AfriKids, Northern Ghana.



Royal Holloway, University of London

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Lecturer

  • Oct 2019 - Oct 2019

  Visiting Lecturer on BA Hons Drama (Module Creative Learning and Theatre) Visiting Lecturer on BA Hons Drama (Module Creative Learning and Theatre)



University of Winchester

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lecturer

  • Sep 2018 - Feb 2019

  Lecturer on TIE/DIE (Theatre in Education and Drama in Education) Lecturer on TIE/DIE (Theatre in Education and Drama in Education)



The Drive Project

• United Kingdom
• Professional Training and Coaching
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Project Manager

  • Sep 2017 - Aug 2018

  Project manager/Veteran Liaison for Graeae Theatre Company and Blesma project This Is Not For You, performed at Greenwich and Dockland Festival and Stockton International Riverside Festival in summer 2018 Project manager/Veteran Liaison for Graeae Theatre Company and Blesma project This Is Not For You, performed at Greenwich and Dockland Festival and Stockton International Riverside Festival in summer 2018



Barbican Centre

• United Kingdom
• Performing Arts
• 300 - 400 Employee

• AHRC Funded PhD

  • Sep 2012 - 2018

  AHRC Funded Collaborative Doctoral Award in collaboration with Barbican Centre and Royal Holloway University of London. Researched explored the work of Barbican Guildhall Creative Learning AHRC Funded Collaborative Doctoral Award in collaboration with Barbican Centre and Royal Holloway University of London. Researched explored the work of Barbican Guildhall Creative Learning