Thisisculture Consultancy

FELICITY HEYWOOD Services offered RESEARCH Research expert - offering investigations to businesses, charities, universities, museums and individuals. Experience: 2013 - Windrush Foundation - Historical research at the British Library and National Archives for a website and exhibition on Caribbean Emancipation 2012 - Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge - Cultural and geographical research into African artefacts for an exhibition on years of the Afro Comb from July 2013 2009 - University of Sussex - Associate Researcher on a project investigating migration movement between Ghana and Europe Ongoing - Extensive investigation into indigenous people including of Australian Aboriginal rights focusing on international laws and ethical arguments surrounding the return of human remains from Europe, and including land rights. RECORD Capturing people's life experience for posterity. Commissioned as an Oral Historian by the Black Cultural Archives to record Ghanaian elders' experiences of 1957 Independence. WRITING A cultural journalist for 12 years writing on heritage and identity CONFERENCE PROGRAMMING & DEBATE Responsible for programming a number of conferences on issues including education developments in museums, volunteers and the Big Society, museum evaluation. In October 2010 I chaired a session at the Museums Association's Annual Conference on the Big Society.