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About Culture Radar


Culture Radar is a research and development consultancy for the arts, creative and heritage sectors in the UK. 

We work with cultural organisations, leaders, funders and policymakers to help them achieve their ambitions.

We specialise in culture and heritage sector research, strategy and building resilient and impactful businesses, communities and projects.

About our team


Jeanie Scott

Director

Jeanie has over 30 years’ experience working across the arts, creative industries and heritage sectors as a CEO, Director and as aconsultant. She is passionate about supporting creatives, organisations and leaders to keep doing what they do best. Specialist areas include cultural policy and funding, fair work and pay. She leads on research, strategy and organisational development for Culture Radar's clients.


Jeanie is a Creative Scotland Clore Fellow (2011/12), an Honorary Research Fellow with Queen Margaret University, and is a member of the What Next? Leadership Group (an independent UK-wide movement that brings freelancers and organisations together to debate and shape the future of the arts and culture). In 2020, she co-founded Coaching for Creatives with Lindsay Dunbar to provide accessible coaching support and training to the cultural sector. She is also a trained facilitator, mentor and an accredited coach.

Reyahn King

Associate

Reyahn has deep experience in museums, galleries and heritage acquired as a CEO, senior leader, programmer and curator.


As a consultant, she specialises in organisational development and management, public engagement and audience development. She is a facilitator who loves bringing people together to develop new visions and deliver strategy, and is a coach and mentor.


Reyahn has a reputation for authentic leadership and has a lifelong commitment to Equality Diversity and Inclusion, grounded in her experience as a Cape Malay woman.  She is a Clore Fellow and a member of the What Next? Leadership Group.

Michael Trainor

Associate

Over the last 30 years, Michael has specialised in delivering large-scale public art commissions and programmes, both as a lead artist and an organisational director.


Instrumental in the regeneration of Manchester’s Northern Quarter from its inception in the early 1990s, Michael has led large-scale and long-term place change projects, most recently as founding director of one of Arts Council England’s Creative People and Places project, LeftCoast.


Alongside consulting, Michael’s current practice-led PhD with the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh College of Art is exploring creative responses to protest.

Lindsay Dunbar

Associate

Lindsay has expertise in nurturing creative projects with a community or rural focus.


Lindsay has a specific interest in developing area-focused networks, rural touring, youth engagement and events, and has worked with diverse clients across the UK on research, planning, evaluation and development projects.


Lindsay is a Creative Scotland Clore Fellow (2017/18), an accredited RD1st Leadership Coach,  LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Facilitator and a trained Bikablo Visualiser. With Jeanie Scott she co-founded Coaching for Creatives which she now runs as a social enterprise.

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