The ArtWorks
steering group comprises:
Claire Whitaker
(Chair)
Advisor - Paul
Hamlyn Foundation Arts Programme Committee & Director -
Serious
Janet
Archer
Director, Dance -
Arts Council England
Régis
Cochefert
Head of Arts -
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Paul
Collard
Chief Executive -
Creativity, Culture & Education
Anna
Cutler
Director of
Learning - Tate
Robert
Dufton
Director - Paul
Hamlyn Foundation
Professor Helen
Nicholson
Department of
Drama and Theatre - Royal Holloway University of London
&
Co-Editor - RiDE:
The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance
Dr. Emma
Wakelin
Associate Director
of Programmes - Arts and Humanities Research Council
Mark
Webster
Programme Area
Manager for Arts, Culture and Design - University of Staffordshire
(Faculty of Arts, Media and Design)
Currently standing
as an observer is Mick Elliot, Culture Director at the Department
for Culture, Media and Sport.
The Project
Director for ArtWorks is Susanne Burns.
Susanne is a
practicing management consultant within the cultural sector with
over 25 years of senior management and leadership
experience. A former Director of Business Development at
the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Development Director at FACT,
she now works both regionally and nationally carrying out
evaluation and research programmes as well as organisational
development consultancy.
Most recently, she
completed a large-scale dance sector mapping research project for
Arts Council England; acted as Project Evaluator for Youth Dance
England on a major national development project funded by ACE and
the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS); and is leading
the evaluation of In Harmony Liverpool for the Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic. Susanne is also advising Canada Council on a dance
mapping exercise to take place across Canada. She is a Lead
Adviser for the Cultural Leadership Programme and recently co
edited A Cultural Leadership Reader with Katie Venner and
Sue Kay. She teaches at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and
Drama and Napier University. Susanne is an Associate of the
Institute of Cultural Capital, a joint venture of the University of
Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University.
Susanne Burns can
be contacted on sburns@phf.co.uk
