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Suzanne Alleyne

Amy Rushby — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 15:05:06 +0000

Suzanne has 30 years experience with a diverse client roster including Wellcome Trust, Channel4, Swatch, Barclaycard and Brixton House. As a Cultural Thinker (strategist, researcher and conversationalist) her business combines strategic thinking with a cultural incubator. She is the inaugural 2016 Arts Council England changemaker, a visiting research associate at King’s College London as well as a Brand Ambassador for Achates Philanthropy and an RSA, DEMOS and 2020 Churchill Fellow

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Ben Walmsley

Amy Rushby — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 11:27:21 +0000

Ben is the Director of the Centre for Cultural Value and Professor of Cultural Engagement at the University of Leeds. His research encompasses arts management, arts marketing, audience studies and cultural policy, with a focus on audience engagement and enrichment; change management in the arts; and cultural value and leadership.

Prior to his academic career, he worked as an arts manager for ten years, most recently as a Producer at the National Theatre of Scotland. Since 2014, Ben has been the Academic Director of the Arts Fundraising and Philanthropy Programme. His monograph Audience Engagement in the Performing Arts: A critical analysis was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019.

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Anne Torreggiani

Amy Rushby — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 11:26:50 +0000

Anne is founder and Chief Executive of The Audience Agency, the UK national charity for public engagement and participation. She is a specialist in audience strategy and research, trends and patterns across arts and heritage. She has a special interest in the use of data and digital especially for better access to arts and heritage, increased participation and cultural democracy. Linked to this, she has developed a particular focus on human centred design as a path to innovation

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Dave O’Brien

Amy Rushby — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 11:26:04 +0000

Dave O’Brien is Chancellor’s Fellow in Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Edinburgh and a co-investigator at the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (AHRC PEC). He has published extensively on inequality in the creative economy, including his latest book Culture is bad for you, which is co-authored with Drs Mark Taylor and Orian Brook. This week he has co-authored new research on the crisis of social mobility in creative industries, published by the AHRC PEC, and the Creative Majority report on what works to support diversity in the creative industries, published by the All Party Parliamentary Group for Creative Diversity.

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Sue Hayton

Amy Rushby — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 11:25:04 +0000

Sue joined the University of Leeds following a successful career in the creative and cultural sector where her work spanned publishing and design as well as visual, performing arts and heritage. She founded Hayton Associates in 1997 leading in the field of the evaluation of community based creative activities working with The National Trust, Arts Council England and the National Lottery Heritage Fund. While at Leeds, she has shaped and delivered an ambitious cultural programme successfully building the university’s relationships with creative sector partners and devised innovative approaches that facilitate cross domain working.

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Abigail Gilmore

Amy Rushby — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 11:24:23 +0000

Abi is a Senior Lecturer, Arts Management & Cultural Policy at the Institute for Cultural Practices, University of Manchester. Her research is on culture policy, participation and place and she is a Co-Investigator with the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre, leading the cultural ecosystem strand for the ‘Impacts of Covid-19 on the cultural sector project.

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