{"id":37,"date":"2018-09-19T14:56:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T14:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rosemaryjb.co.uk\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2025-10-01T13:23:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:23:21","slug":"skills-and-experience","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rosemaryjb.co.uk\/?page_id=37","title":{"rendered":"Skills and Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Organisational strategy development &amp; co-design<\/li>\n<li>Membership organisations strategy, practice, and accessibility<\/li>\n<li>Management of teams, people, programmes &amp; projects<\/li>\n<li>Audience research &amp; development<\/li>\n<li>Programme &amp; project design<\/li>\n<li>Monitoring, evaluation, research &amp; reporting<\/li>\n<li>Public engagement, creative learning &amp; arts participation<\/li>\n<li>Advocacy &amp; strategic comms<\/li>\n<li>Building strategic partnerships<\/li>\n<li>Developing and managing funding relationships<\/li>\n<li>Qualitative research<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2021 \u2013 2025\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>PhD Media &amp; Cultural Policy, CCPR, University of Glasgow<\/p>\n<p><strong>2019 \u2013 2020\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>MSc Creative Industries &amp; Cultural Policy, University of Glasgow (Distinction)<\/p>\n<p><strong>2006 \u2013 2008\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>GE LLB Graduate Entry Law, Strathclyde University, Glasgow<\/p>\n<p><strong>2002 \u2013 2006\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>MA (Hons) English Lit, Film and TV Studies, University of Glasgow<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent Training<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Intro to GDPR 2024,<\/p>\n<p>Diversity in the Workplace 2024,<\/p>\n<p>Storytelling for Presentations 2022,<\/p>\n<p>Intro to Data Visualisation 2021,<\/p>\n<p>Equalities Diversity and Inclusion Essentials 2021,<\/p>\n<p>Project Management 2019,<\/p>\n<p>Managing Innovation &amp; Creativity 2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Providing research, case study development, mapping, organisational strategy, programme and event design, funding bid development and evaluation. Supporting a diverse range of cultural organisations to develop and excel in their work. Highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Savourna Stevenson: fundraising and project development for new choral composition, 2025<\/li>\n<li>Panel and Craft Scotland: Make with the Knit Shop &#8211; Evaluation of Paul Hamlyn Funded Teacher Development programme, 2024-2025.<\/li>\n<li>Greenspace Scotland: Remembering Together online evaluation workshops for commissioned artists and local authority partners, 2024<\/li>\n<li>University of Glasgow: Public Engagement cross-college collaboration strategy development, 2024; and College of Arts Thinking Culture programme development workshop facilitation, 2023<\/li>\n<li>OneRen &amp; Renfrewshire Council: Culture, Heritage &amp; Events Fund (CHEF) grant assessment, 2023<\/li>\n<li>Panel: Making a model for MAKE, research into membership organisation models in Scotland, 2022<\/li>\n<li>Craft Scotland: MAKE Learn Research 2021-2022 and Craft Maker Listening Sessions, 2022<\/li>\n<li>Take Me Somewhere: Artist Basic Income Pilot Evaluation, 2022<\/li>\n<li>Glass Performance: Theatre Hub Polmont Evaluation Co-Design, 2023-2024<\/li>\n<li>Scottish Contemporary Art Network: Strategy development for membership organisation, 2020<\/li>\n<li>Puppet Animation Scotland: Audience development strategy development, 2019<\/li>\n<li>Glasgow Life: An Artist in Residence for Every Community, programme design and sector consultation, 2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p>Recent publications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>James-Beith, R. (2025 \u2013 forthcoming) <em>Making it Together: Maker-led Organisations in Scotland\u2019s Craft Ecology,<\/em> PhD Thesis, Centre for Cultural Policy Research, University of Glasgow<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>James-Beith, R. (2025 &#8211; forthcoming) <em>MAKE with the Knit Shop: Learning Report<\/em>, MAKE &amp; Craft Scotland<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>James-Beith, R. (2025) <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeglasgow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Creative-Glasgow_Spaces-and-Places_Summary-Report.pdf\">A co-created action plan for creative spaces in the City<\/a><\/em>, Creative Glasgow<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>James-Beith, R. (2023) <em><a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5803a728d1758e435b377f47\/t\/672624f0d0deff795accd9a8\/1730553073455\/TMS_ABI_EvalReport_Nov23.docx.pdf\">Artist Basic Income Pilot: Evaluation Report<\/a>, <\/em>Take Me Somewhere<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>James-Beith, R. (2021)&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/eprints.gla.ac.uk\/255532\/\"><em>Craft and Making Education in Scotland Today<\/em>.<\/a>&nbsp;Project Report Sep 2021. MAKE &amp; Craft Scotland.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>James-Beith, R. (2017)&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/eprints.gla.ac.uk\/255533\/\">Quality assessment: the experience in Glasgow 2014\u20132016.<\/a>&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/eprints.gla.ac.uk\/view\/journal_volume\/Cultural_Trends.html\">Cultural Trends<\/a><\/em>, 26(4), pp. 325 \u2013 327<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organisational strategy development &amp; co-design Membership organisations strategy, practice, and accessibility Management of teams, people, programmes &amp; projects Audience research &amp; development Programme &amp; project design Monitoring, evaluation, research &amp; reporting Public engagement, creative learning &amp; arts participation Advocacy &amp; strategic comms Building strategic partnerships Developing and managing funding relationships Qualitative research &nbsp; Education 2021 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rosemaryjb.co.uk\/?page_id=37\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Skills and Experience&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-37","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosemaryjb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosemaryjb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosemaryjb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosemaryjb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosemaryjb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/rosemaryjb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/rosemaryjb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosemaryjb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}