Reflections on 2024 & thinking ahead to 2025

2024 was a busy year working with both regular and new clients. This included:

  • New Contemporaries - evaluating Young New Contemporaries for under-represented young people studying an art A level, to support them into creative careers, as well as carrying out research with some of the New Contemporaries alumni artists;

  • Tate - running training sessions and evaluating their mentoring programme matching Tate staff with Tate Collective Producers;

  • Foundling Museum - evaluating their Tracing Our Tales art and creative writing traineeships, as well as their new alumni trainees group;

  • London Transport Museum - reviewing relevant toolkits across the museum sector, and beyond, to help inform their future toolkit about their Young People’s Programme and careers offer;

  • Group for Education in Museums (GEM) - continuing with the research focusing on Work experience, work placements and inclusive pathways by disseminating to GEM members via the area and nation groups, and creating a toolkit to support the members. In addition, I ran a workshop at the GEM Conference in September 2024 and gave a presentation at the Museums + Heritage Show in May 2024;

  • Royal Museums Greenwich - recruiting and training up a Peer Research team to consult with other young people to inform their future youth programme.

I am excited for 2025, continuing to work with New Contemporaries, Tate, the Foundling Museum and the Group for Education in Museums, with two new clients:

  • National Paralympic Heritage Trust (NPHT) - working in collaboration with freelancer Siân Rosa Hunter Dodsworth to evaluate their inclusive approach to working with neurodiverse and disabled people, with my area of focus being their work placements with young people and traineeships with adults;

  • Idle Women - supporting them in setting up a traineeship programme for the women they are working with from local refuge Humraaz for Black and Minority Ethnic women who are experiencing domestic abuse and all forms of Harmful Traditional Practices.

Watch this space for more news in 2025. Happy New Year everyone!