For the past 15 years I've developed and delivered creative projects with cultural and social impacts for clients from across the education, culture, heritage, health and community sectors. My passion is working with communities and organisations to put people at the heart of how the places that we love and live in are co-designed to support our needs - that they are relevant to us, unlock investment and are vibrant as a result. I'm leading a ground-breaking project with Derby Museums to develop a new way forwards for Derby Silk Mill - the site of the world's first factory. Having secured first round passes for £12m from HLF and ACE, citizen curators and makers are at the heart of shaping the vision for the new Museum of Making - getting hands on, learning new skills and sharing skills with others to expand perspectives of what a museum is and can be. We're taking the co-productions, human-centred ethos and apply it to a major capital development project; maintaining both integrity to the approach that has given it its stand-out nature, but also deliverability against the resources and stakeholder expectations. This methodology is receiving national and international acclaim - featuring in publications including Nina Simon's latest book The Art of Relevance. I regularly speak at conferences on themes of creative place-shaping and participatory practice, particularly human-centred design approaches. I also develop and deliver workshops for organisations who want to learn more about how they might embed human-centred approaches in their practice. I'm a proud member of two fellowships: > Creative Communities Fellow with the North American National Arts Strategies. > Fellow of the RSA (Royal Society for the Arts, Commerce, Manufacturing). Specialities: Cultural development projects, strategic partnerships, design-thinking/human-centred design, social and cultural entrepreneurship, brand development.