Mark Andrews
Mark is Senior Strategic Development Manager for Adobe Education. In his role, he leads efforts in collaborating with innovators across the education sector to support the enablement and embedding of core digital literacy, creativity, and employability skills. His goal is to help institutions ensure learners have the knowledge, capability, and required flourish to succeed in an increasingly digitally-native world.
Sophie Anstee de Mas
Sophie Anstee de Mas is Community Hub Manager at the National Archives. There she leads on ‘Spaces, Places and Belonging: Community Hub’, a new Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) investment. The hub seeks to support inclusive, community-led research across the UK’s Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM) and Heritage sectors through grant giving, network building and knowledge sharing.
Tania Banotti
Tania Banotti is Director of the whole-of-government Creative Ireland Programme established by the Irish government in 2017 and renewed in 2023 for 5 years. The goal of the programme is to embed creativity across government policy. It currently works with 8 gov departments, 12 state agencies and all 31 local authorities.
There are five pillars. A new ‘Shared Island’ dimension was added to the pillars in 2023.
Tania was previously CEO of the Institute of Advertising Practitioners of Ireland and Performing Arts Forum Ireland and a founder of the National Campaign for the Arts in Ireland.
Tom Crick
Tom Crick is Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and Professor of Digital & Policy and Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor (Civic Mission) at Swansea University. He holds a joint research and innovation appointment split between the Department of Education & Childhood Studies (Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences), and the £32m Computational Foundry (Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science & Engineering).
Whilst his disciplinary background is in computer science, his academic interests sit at the research/public policy interface with a focus on broad societal/policy impact: STEM/digital education, curriculum reform, science and innovation policy, data science, intelligent systems, smart cities, national infrastructure, software sustainability, digital transformation, and skills/infrastructure for the digital/data economy.
Erica Judge
Erica Judge is Director of Funds at Inspiring Scotland, where she has been instrumental in launching Creative Communities and Rural Communities Ideas Into Action, two community-led development programmes.
Before this, Erica developed 20 years of experience in change management, financial strategy and commercial delivery roles. She has an interest in children’s issues, education, and improving access to opportunity for all. Erica is also a Trustee of the Curiosity Collective, which works to give children the freedom to explore the world of learning beyond the classroom.
Andrew Mowlah
Andrew Mowlah is Director of Research at Arts Council England, where he had also previously worked as Senior Manager of Policy and Research.
Andrew develops and oversees the ACE national research programme, leading on major research projects and delivery of the core ACE strategy ‘Achieving Great Arts and Culture for Everyone’ alongside the other director and executive team. He works closely with national discipline leads and arts and culture leads on evidence-based policy development.
Helen Goulden
Helen Goulden OBE is CEO of the Young Foundation where she leads their multi-disciplinary team of researchers and innovators to support stronger communities across the UK. The Young Foundation is a not-for-profit research organisation, working with communities, organisations and policymakers since 1954.
She was previously Executive Director at Nesta where she spent nine years working to support and scale innovation for the public good, working with partners to run innovation funds and programmes, open innovation processes and challenge prizes. Helen is also a member of the Board of Trustees at Big Education and received an OBE in 2023 for services to development of sustainable communities.
Lord Neil Mendoza
Lord Neil Mendoza is Chair of Historic England, was Commissioner for Cultural Recovery and Renewal for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport in the UK government and is also Provost of Oriel College, Oxford University.
Lord Mendoza is also Chair of the Culture and Heritage Capital advisory board for DCMS, where he had been a non-executive director from 2016-2020. He has worked as a Commissioner for Historic England, Chair at the Landmark Trust, a Trustee for the Shakespeare Schools Foundation and contributed immeasurably to the creative and finance sectors, supporting talent, creativity and enterprise through high quality educational, cultural and heritage engagement.
Husna Mortuza
Husna Mortuza is Associate Director of Public Engagement at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, where she leads on strategic public engagement, developments in narrative change and movement building, and on shaping policy and practice.
Husna is also a Trustee of Toynbee Hall and has previously worked in senior policy positions for multiple UK government departments, spending much of her career advocating for policy changes in areas of social justice and welfare reform, and building experience in policy development, strategy and campaigns in government and third sector organisations.
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