Overview

Role

Brigid is the Innovation, Impact and Business (IIB) Business Partner for the College of Humanities. She manages the Culture team to support impact development, research collaboration with external partners, and income generation across the University.

Profile

Brigid is a senior strategic manager specialising in the cultural sector. She has worked in knowledge exchange delivery and income development for Russell Group universities as well as holding an external examiner role and visiting lecturer posts at the Royal College of Art and University of the Arts.

For 10 years, she was director of a creative and cultural consultancy company in East London and delivered two major initiatives: Museumaker with heritage sites across the country and a three year ERDF creative economy programme. Previously she worked as the creative economy lead for a London local authority, business development role in the Crafts Council, fiction publicist for a major publisher, artist studio manager and theatre publicist in Hoxton.

International projects include managing design and industry programmes in the Netherlands, a research project into artists’ communities in North America, and supporting the delivery of large scale commercial creative industry events in New York and San Francisco.

Links

• Connect with Brigid on LinkedIn