PHOTO CREDIT: Fiona Hanson
From crafting exhibition texts to scripting storyboards for films, I use my versatile writing style to suit a range of platforms.
Portfolio snippets here
ZINE CO-CREATION
As the Co-Editor, I enjoyed collaborating with the Patient Advisory Panel and a guest illustrator to co-produce a zine for the current ‘Outwitting Cancer’ exhibition at the Francis Crick Institute, as part of delivering the curatorial narrative strategy. Visit to pick up a courtesy copy superbly illustrated by Rebecca Sadie May.
Onco’zine: A rough guide to cancer by people who have lived it
WEBSITE PRODUCTION
Commissioning Editor, Cultural Governance Alliance www.culturalgovernancealliance.org
I commissioned the development of a new website on behalf of the Cultural Governance Alliance and oversaw its launch in 2018, in tandem with scoping the inaugural conference programme for Governance Now.
INDUSTRY INSIGHTS
State of Creativity 2023, Culture Scientist (Substack) April 2023
Guide | How to support the wellbeing of anti-racism advocates, Museums Journal, Dec 2022
What makes a strong museum board and effective governance in museums?, Museums + Heritage Advisor, July 2016
Museums Association launches new code of ethics for museums, M+H, April 2016
Will Egypt’s next revolution be in its museums?, Museums + Heritage Advisor, Dec 2015
Could World Culture Forum become a Davos for arts and heritage?, Guardian Culture Professionals network blog, Dec 2013
Museums in the information age: survival of the most digital? Guardian, Dec 2012
World Cities Culture: a tale of 12 cities, Guardian, August 2012
EXHIBITION REVIEWS:
75 Years After the Palestinian Nakba, Hyperallergic, May 2023
Small Stories, V&A Museum of Childhood, Museums Journal, Issue 115/04, p.42-45, 01.04.2015
Imperial War Museum, Issue 114/10, Museums Journal, p.48-53, 01.10.2014
World of Wallace: Alfred Russel Wallace and his life in the field, Hertford Museum, Museums Journal, Issue 114/02, p.42, 01.02.2014
Unseen Enemy, National Army Museum, Museums Journal, Issue 113/11, p66-69, 01.11.2013
The magic quill (British Library), Al-Ahram, (Cairo) (Issue No. 854), 19 – 25 July 2007
Sacred: Discover what we share, Culture 24 Hour, July 2007
BOOK REVIEWS:
Through the lens of science fiction, Iraq’s distant future is reimagined, The National, 2016
Shining light upon light, Nature, (Vol. 458, p.149-150), 12 March 2009
Medical history without frontiers, Nature, (Vol. 448, p.870), 23 August 2007
PAPERS/REPORTS:
Space Invaders: Reclaiming the future through rebellious stories and diverse voices (November 2017), Yasmin Khan, Annette Mees and Ollie Sheldrick (Doteveryone).
Museums: tonic for the soul (pp.74-75), in ‘Where does it hurt? The New World of Medical Humanities’, Wellcome Trust, 2014
Does gender need to be higher on the museum agenda? (pages 192-207) in ‘MUSEUMS – Knowledge, Democracy and transformation’ (2014), Edited by Ida Braendholt Lundgaard and Jacob Thorek Jensen
Amman’s West Side Story: Is soft power helping or hindering the state of the arts in Jordan? Ibraaz, May 2013
OPINION PIECES:
Museums must dust off old ways and address gender equality in leadership, Guardian Culture Professionals network blog, April 2016
Sex equality must be pushed higher up the museum agenda, Guardian Culture Professionals network blog, June 2014
The Inclusive Museum: the view from abroad, Museums Journal, (Comment) 113/06, p.18, June 2013
Are museums a man or woman’s world?, Guardian, May 2013,
SCIENCE COMMUNICATION:
British Heart Foundation Excellence in Research Award, University of Oxford, March 2008
1000 years of missing science, Science in School, Dec 2006
REPORT EDITING:
Achieving Good Governance: a challenge of our time (August 2017), Hilary Carty, David Bryan and Anne Murch
