Brigid Howarth
Head of Society, Culture and Organisations
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01392 724315
Innovation Centre
Innovation Centre, University of Exeter, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4RN, UK
Overview
Role
Brigid is the Head of the Society, Culture and Organisations sector team that supports impact development, research collaboration with external partners, and income generation across the University.
Profile
Brigid is a senior strategic manager specialising in the knowledge economy. 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 London and delivered major initiatives in the creative and cultural industries sector. Previously she worked as the creative economy lead for a London local authority, business development role in the design sector, fiction publicist for a major publisher, artist studio manager and theatre publicist.
International projects include hosting the UNESCO Creative City team in Exeter, design and industry programmes in the Netherlands, bsuiness modelling in creative communities in North America, and supporting the delivery of large scale commercial export events in New York and San Francisco.