Claire Adler

Heritage Learning Consultant

268 Cherry Hinton Road, Cambridge, CB1 7AU

T: 01223 411555                 E: claireadler@btinternet.com   W: www.claireadler.co.uk    

Key interests:

·         Project managing cultural heritage and education projects.

·         Developing effective consultations and evaluations.

·         Working with non-traditional heritage audiences, including migrants, refugees, and young people.

·         Developing formal education services, including sessions and teachers packs for formal education groups.

·         Developing partnership projects.

·         Developing education services in small and medium sized museums and heritage sites.

·         Writing Stage 1 and 2 HLF applications

·         Assessing and mentoring Heritage Lottery Fund funded projects to encourage good practice.

·         Organising and delivering training.

Key Skills and Specialisms:

·         Wide-ranging experience of developing and delivering projects with non-traditional museum audiences, including migrant workers, refugees and teenagers, through the process of consultation.

·         Extensive experience of developing and delivering successful community consultations on museums, heritage and nature reserves services and resources

·         Broad understanding and experience of researching and delivering best practice in a variety of areas within the Museums, Libraries and Archives and Nature Reserves sectors.

·         Extensive experience of developing and delivering exhibitions, events and education programmes that are relevant to diverse or targeted audiences.

·         Extensive experience of researching, writing and delivering education resources and sessions for Museums and Archives for all ages from Key Stage 1 to adult ESOL students.

·         Comprehensive experience of developing successful Museum Education Services from conception.

·         Extensive experience of developing and delivering training programmes to a range of professionals.

·         Excellent communication and presentation skills.

Relevant Professional Experience as Consultant

December 2004 – present: National Directory of Expert Advisors for the Heritage Lottery Fund - assessing HLF applications and mentoring and monitoring successful projects. This has involved assessing multi-million pound HLF bids such as Kettle's Yard; monitoring medium sized projects, such as the George Padmore Institute and mentoring small projects to help them develop high quality projects, such as Deaf Leicester.

August 2011 – March 2012: Consulting communities and schools and helping write the Activity Plan and Action Plan for Bentley Priory Battle of Britain Trust’s Stage 2 HLF bid.

September 2011 – November 2011: Developing and delivering environment and recording project with Looked After Children at Norwich Castle.

May 2011 – July 2011: Developed teacher and community consultation about the development of the National Huguenot Centre for a stage 1 HLF bid.

September 2010 – May 2011: Developing and delivering project and exhibition with NEETS with severe learning and/ or physical disabilities with Norwich Castle about how buildings change.

May 2010 – December 2010: Developed and delivered programme to vulnerable teenagers about identity through art and contemporary magazines at the Fitzwilliam Museum

September – October 2010: Developed teachers consultation and Key Stage 1 and 2 education resources for Fry Art Gallery

November 2009 – March 2010: Developed and delivered community consultation on the Cherry Hinton Chalk Pits for The Wildlife Trust, Cambridgeshire

November 2009 – January 2010: Developed and delivered teachers consultation for Bernie Grant Archives for Stage 2 HLF bid

August 2009 – October 2009: Researched and wrote ‘How to develop a Youth Forum in your Museum - A toolkit of ideas’, funded by MLA Council and Renaissance South East

May 2009 – August 2009: Green SLIME – Developed and consulted formal and informal Youth Forums about how five museums in Kent could address issues of sustainability

March 2009 – May 2009: Strut – Consulted teenagers from Pupil Referral Unit about the development of an exhibition targeted at teenagers for Northampton Museums and Art Gallery

September 2008 – March 2009: Museum Links - Developed community museum interpretation project with migrant workers and local people in four museums in Lincolnshire

August 2007 – April 2008: ‘Just Like My Mother Used to Make…’ - Developed community heritage project with local people and migrant workers, Ayscoughfee Hall Museum, Spalding, Lincolnshire

December 2005 – March 2006: Researched and wrote advocacy document about ‘What museums across the UK are doing to engage BME and C2DE audiences through their permanent displays’ for the Natural History Museum

January 2005 – June 2005: Developed and delivered ‘Exploring Citizenship Resource Directory’ for ALM London

Professional Experience employed in Museums

November 1998 – November 2005: Community Education Manager for Hackney Museum Service

·         As a member of a small team, of four people, I conceived, developed and realised the redisplay of Hackney Museum.

·         Developed the education service from conception to ensure all aspects of the school programme, holiday events, teachers’ resources, family learning pack and ESOL resources were relevant to the large cross-section of communities living in Hackney.

·         Developed and managed a number of innovative projects that investigated issues of immigration, identity and origin. 

·         Established and ran consultations with Teacher’s Forum, Teenager’s Group and ESOL Forum.

January 1996 – November 1998: Education Officer at North Herts Museum Service

October 1994 – January 1996: Education Assistant at Northampton Museums

January 1994 – October 1994: Contracted Education Officer at Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry

Education

1994 - 1996 AMA: Associate of the Museums Association

1992 – 1993 MA: Museum Studies; University Of Leicester

1988 – 1991 BA (HONS) History of Art; University of Manchester; Class: 2:1

• Associate Member of Museum Association and Group for Education in Museums
• I have given a number of Keynote speeches, talks and training courses for Universities, GEM, Museum Association and individual Museum Services.

Referees

Fiona Davison

London Museums Hub Executive

Museum of London

London EC2Y 5HN