Employed Projects

Developed interpretative materials for eight Staffordshire Hoard exhibitions and displays, at The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Tamworth Castle, Lichfield Cathedral and other venues

Researched and wrote text for Heroes and Villains, 2014, a book about the people immortalised as Staffordshire ceramic figures

Wrote A Bluffer’s guide to Role Play, 2006, a guide to best practice in historical role play

Developed fluid interpretation method and trained volunteer Hoard Hosts at The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery and Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, presented to GEM Conference 2013

Acted as lead officer on exhibitions including the award-winning Once Upon a Time (2011), designed for under-fives and their carers

Developed and delivered learning sessions and resources for schools related to the history National Curriculum, reaching tens of thousands of schoolchildren, including in-gallery teaching, outreach sessions, dramatic history-based assemblies, printed resources, loans boxes and handling resources

Developed and delivered craft-based drop-in sessions for families

Developed and delivered informal sessions for adults, including Hoard by Torchlight evenings, palaeography lessons and talks on subjects ranging from kitchenalia to fairy tales

Developed and portrayed historical characters for Gladstone Pottery Museum and Ford Green Hall; trained role players for Stoke-on-Trent Museums Service and Avoncroft Museum

Delivered sessions at first person interpretation seminars for Birmingham Museums, Shugborough, Mary Arden’s House and Gladstone Pottery Museum

Performed as a storyteller at Christmas, Halloween and other events for Stoke-on-Trent Museums Service

Wrote a play about the Staffordshire Hoard for performance by Year 9 students at The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery and Haywood Technology College