UKRI Policy Fellow on Cultural Placemaking and Levelling Up with Department for Culture Media and Sport
Abigail is UKRI Policy Fellow on Cultural Placemaking and Levelling Up with Department for Culture Media and Sport, and a researcher of local strategies for arts, culture and placemaking for over twenty years, beginning with a PhD on urban music policies. Following her doctorate, she was founding Director of Northwest Culture Observatory working with local government, the arts and cultural sector and regional agencies from 2004-2009. Recent projects with the PEC include UKRI Covid-19 impact on cultural industries & policy implications, and ‘Beyond the Creative City’, an international network on cultural districts with University of Manchester, University of Toronto and University of Melbourne. She has two books with Palgrave published in 2023: ‘Culture, Participation and Policy in the Municipal Public Park,’ and ‘Cultural Policy is Local’ (with Victoria Durrer, Leila Jancovich and David Stevenson), and ‘Pandemic Culture’ (with Dave O’Brien and Ben Walmsley) with Manchester University Press in 2024.
