Penny Evans Email & Phone Number

I am a creative and entrepreneurial leader with over 20 years of experience working across the creative and cultural sectors. Passionate about driving meaningful social change, community impact and asset building, with a unique combination of arts and entrepreneurship. Co-Founder of award winning Knowle West Media Centre, an arts and tech organisation its mission “Making Fair and Thriving Neighbourhoods with Art, Tech and Care.Purpose-driven and results-focused, and dedicated to turning innovative ideas into real-world projects, communicating ideas and making stuff happen scaleable and with quality.I have a track record of raising and managing six-figure funding from various sources, leading and delivering innovative projects and programmes, and collaborating with diverse partners across academia, public sector, and business. Some of my recent achievements - leading the strategic development of KWMC The Factory from start-up to a unique production space offering making, digital fabrication, product design, business and skills development in a place-based context. Managing major Europrean Programmes: Par Cos, an EU-funded project that engages citizens in co-creating science and technology; Succesfully supporting artists, creatives, makers within creative enterprise programmeProducing University of Local Knowledge, a durational international collaborative art work of 950 works that challenges heirachies of knowledge and showcases the knowledge of local communities. Board Membership/FellowshipsUK Council member, Creative UKHonorary Research Associate, UCL Department of Science and Technology StudiesFellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)

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  University Of The West Of England

  Communication And Media Studies