Consultant Director at The Audience Agency
Anra works with museums, galleries and heritage organisations, nationally and internationally, to help them successfully navigate the impact of digital change, digital culture and technologies. Her specialism is digital literacies and skills, particularly in the context of the cultural sector’s resilience, social impact and values-led practice. This work is always collaborative – current projects include One By One – researching and defining digital skills and literacies for museum people, an AHRC-funded partnership lead by Leicester University, and creating a Digital Maturity Index and Code for cultural organisations, a multi-partner ACE & NLHF-funded project lead by The Space. Anra led Culture24’s Sector Support programme, supporting museums in England with digital skills and impact, along with their Let’s Get Real collaborative action research work, in which 19 cultural organisations are exploring ways to leverage digital in making deeper human connections.
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