Other roles & recent training

Grant assessor for the British Council Digital Collaboration fund (2020), South East Asia Connections Through Culture (2022) and International Collaboration Fund (2024)

Participated in two of ERIAC’s capacity-building workshops aimed at empowering and strengthening the Roma community. This includes a Romani Language Crash Course and Healing Historical Trauma: Commemoration and Healing in the Roma Community. (July 24)

I was one of the 12 selected to be on the CreatingNowForTheFuture programme, collaborating with fellow creative peers and the team at Julie's Bicycle to develop new practical, relevant, and accessible resources for freelancers, producers and individuals making creative work (March - May 2024)

I was one of the selected participants who will be contributing to the Where to Land forum . The forum's focus is on how we embed climate crisis activism in the performing arts landscape in Europe. The initiative Where to Land was launched at the beginning of 2022 around a consortium of European partners: the Theatre and Dance Office of the French Institute in Germany, the Syndeac (Syndicat national des entreprises artistiques et culturelles), the City of Strasbourg, the Goethe-Institut, the Institut Français, the Aktionsnetzwerk Nachhaltigkeit and the Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg - Scène européenne. I worked specifically within the context of the Digital Sustainability workshop led by Robert Gabriel (Metamine) a climate activist who focuses on digital sustainability and democracy. I have edited a subsequent blog into a report which you can be downloaded (October 2022).

Culture in Flux Associate. Culture in Flux is an international consultancy practice geared around the design of cultural strategies and interventions that can make a measurable difference to the lives of individuals and communities. In 2021 through CIF, I supported the recruitment process of a new Head of Programming for the Battersea Art Centre who were looking to widen the net and attract candidates who are excited to explore new models of practice regarding programming in co-creation with audiences, artists and peers (April 21 - ongoing)

I was selected to be one of the pool of experts providing capacity building services and peer-learning activities for the upcoming European Capitals of Culture. The 'Capacity Building for European Capitals of Culture' project is seeking to help bridge skills gaps and build capacity in the implementing teams of European Capitals of Culture . Experts were sought in the following areas: audience development, conflict resolution, change management, legal (including intellectual property rights and licensing agreements for culture), and monitoring and evaluation in the cultural sector. As well as expertise in management, communications, coordination and international relations.(2022)

Completion of the course MOOC "Arts, Armed Conflict and Humanitarian Aid" . This training space is dedicated to the different professionals of the humanitarian or artistic field concerned by artistic practices in humanitarian emergencies. (Feb 22)

Executive Producer on Impact Dance’s youth engagement project, Ten-a-City presented during the London Festival of Architecture. My role was to contribute to shaping the project and funding bid, meet with key stakeholders, initiate and lead on the participatory global discussion platform and draft the international brief for 9 of the overseas partners whilst supporting the Impact team as appropriate regarding project design and delivery. (March - July 21)

Bid writer to the Australian Cultural Diplomacy Grants Program on behalf of a consortium of British festivals.(May 2020)

Policy Researcher & lead of Conservatoires UK. Performing and visual arts higher education institutions and conservatoires make a significant contribution to the UK economy, to the creative and cultural prosperity of the UK, and to the social good more widely. This contribution is not, however, always well understood or recognised. Such institutions also have distinctive issues that need to be considered in developing policy and regulation. As Policy researcher & lead for CUK I am responsible for engaging with specialist institutions and supporting them through evidenced-based policy analysis and advocacy. (March 2020 - ongoing in a part time capacity)

A Fair Trade Model for Freelancers - as a member of the Freelance network I have had an opportunity to contribute to the newly published 5 Guiding Principles which is a toolkit to help support the performing arts sector to improve working practices to ensure a more equitable, sustainable, productive sector for all who work in it. (2020)