The Clore Leadership Programme, one of the world’s foremost development programmes for leadership in the cultural sector, has announced nineteen new UK Fellows to join the Programme for 2009/10.
Co-funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), The Clore Leadership Programme is an initiative of the Clore Duffield Foundation, which aims to strengthen leadership across a wide range of cultural activities. This includes the visual and performing arts, film, heritage, museums, libraries and archives, creative industries and cultural policy and administration. It offers Fellowships and Short Courses for individual leaders, and training for members of Boards of Directors of cultural organisations.
Over seventy candidates were interviewed this year for the nineteen places available on the Clore Fellowship Programme. The list of Clore Leadership Fellows for 2009/10 is:
Claire Antrobus from York; Manal Ataya from Dubai; Jonathan Best from Derbyshire; Rachel Brogan from Manchester; Kathy Cremin from Bradford; Gaylene Gould from London; Gill Hart from Cambridge; Richard Hawley from Birmingham; Lucinda Jarrett from Oxfordshire; Michelle Knight from Worcester; Atul Kumar Mittal from Mumbai; Rachel Millward from London; Joanne Moulton from London; Wanjiku Nyachae from Birmingham; Mark Prescott from London; Joanna Rowlands from Liverpool; Pooja Sood from New Delhi; Roxana Silbert from London; Fern Smith from Swansea; Christopher Stafford from London; Dorcas Walters from Birmingham; Jasmine Wilson from London; Margaret Yang from Hong Kong.
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Founded in 2003, The Clore Leadership Programme is an initiative of the Clore Duffield Foundation, which aims to strengthen leadership across a wide range of cultural activities. Since September 2004, 156 cultural leaders from the UK and abroad will have been awarded Fellowships on the Clore Leadership Programme.
The major funding partners for the Clore Leadership Programme are the Clore Duffield Foundation, the Cultural Leadership Programme, Advantage West Midlands, Arts Council of Wales, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Creative & Cultural Skills, Dancers’ Career Development, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office through the British Council, the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, the Home Affairs Bureau of the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region through the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, the Linbury Trust, MLA (the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council), the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA), Northwest Regional Development Agency, Skillset, the UK Film Council and the Wellcome Trust.
About Arts and Humanities Research Council ‐ Each year the AHRC provides approximately £102 million from the Government to support research and postgraduate study in the arts and humanities, from languages and law, archaeology and English literature to design and creative and performing arts. In any one year, the AHRC makes approximately 700 research awards and around 1,350 postgraduate awards. Awards are made after a rigorous peer review process, to ensure that only applications of the highest quality are funded. Arts and humanities researchers constitute over a quarter of all research‐active staff in the higher education sector. The quality and range of research supported by this investment of public funds not only provides social and cultural benefits but also contributes to the economic success of the UK.