MCG Committee
Executive committee members
MCG Chair
Georgina Brooke
Content Strategist, One Further
Georgina is a Content Strategist at One Further. Since 2021, when she joined she’s worked for clients such as MoMA, Tate and National Museums Scotland and Wales. She leads on projects relating to content design, content strategy, SEO, digital strategy, website discovery, social media and digital user research.
She’s held previous roles leading digital content teams at National Museums Scotland and Oxford University Museums and Gardens. She began her career working under Sarah Winters (nee Richards) during the first iteration of gov.uk as part of the developing Government Digital Service.
Georgina publishes the bi-monthly newsletter; Cultural Content, with a regular readership of around 3,000.
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Secretary
Ed Bankes
Website Content Manager, Royal Academy of Arts
Ed is the Website Content Manager at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, where he is responsible for the day-to-day management of the RA website. He works with colleagues across the Academy to maintain an accessible and intuitive user experience across the website by means of a detail-oriented, data-informed and consistent approach to copywriting, information design and content provision.
Ed started his career at Cog Design, a digital agency which specialises in arts organisations and their audiences. There he provided administrative support, developed the agency’s marketing and worked towards Cog’s B-Corp certification.
He has a BA in English Literature from the University of Cambridge and is interested in the role technology can play in bringing new audiences to museums.
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Treasurer
Russell Stearman
Technical Director, Joi Polloi
Russell is the Technical Director at Sheffield agency Joi Polloi, creating work for culture, media and broadcast. Over his 19 year experience, he’s worked on many digital cultural projects, creating installations and group website for the Science Museum, digital exhibits for Glasgow Science Centre, games for the Natural History Museum & National Museums Scotland, digital strategy for the Royal Armouries, and science interpretation for Royal Botanical Gardens Kew. With the BBC he’s created citizen science and research pieces, and dealt with the highs and lows of creating digital work supporting live broadcast TV.
He loves creative storytelling in the digital media, having recently created the The Book In The Book ‘choose your own documentary’ and has a background in kids games and e-learning, trying to make the complex approachable and fun.
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Co-Treasurer
Pete Livesey
Digital Analyst, Science Museum Group
Pete has worked in museums for over ten years with roles in digital marketing, communications, and web. As Digital Analyst at the Science Museum Group, he monitors and assesses the online data of the Group’s web estate.
Collaborating with teams across the Science Museum Group’s physical sites, Pete helps inform decision-making based on user data from various platforms, including web, CRM, e-commerce and marketing channels.
Pete studied Computer Forensics and Cyber Security at Manchester Metropolitan University and achieved a bachelor’s degree in history with The Open University. He is currently pursuing a part-time CertHE in Data Analysis, also with The Open University.
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Other committee members
Sarah Middle
Researcher (Tools of Knowledge project), National Museums Scotland 
Sarah is a postdoctoral researcher on the Tools of Knowledge project at National Museums Scotland. A key component of this project is remodelling a legacy database of historical scientific instrument makers, for which Sarah has largely been responsible for designing the underlying ontology and data model. Other areas Sarah has explored as part of this work include object itineraries, crowdsourcing, and Linked Humanities Data infrastructure. Before joining NMS, Sarah completed a PhD at the Open University on Linked Ancient World Data usability, having previously worked in academic libraries and digital project management.
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Alec Ward
Museum Development Officer Digital & Communications, Museum of London 
Alec works for the London Museum Development team, based at the Museum of London. As the Museum Development Officer for Digital and Communications, he leads on the Digital Futures programme and provides support for London’s non-national museums in all areas of digital tech and practice. He runs a number of different training sessions for London’s museums, from creating digital 3D models to developing a social media strategy. Outside of the programme of training events, he also provides support to London’s museums in the form of site visits and one-to-one consultation around digital projects and practice. Alec runs the Twitter account for the London Museum Development team, having experience of setting up and managing social media platforms in a previous role, for the Museum of the Order of St John. He is also on the committee for the London Museums of Health and Medicine (LMHM), as one of two Webmasters. For LMHM, he co-manages the website as well as the JISCMail for the group.
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Graham Davies
Digital Experience Manager, Amgueddfa Cymru
Graham has worked for Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales for over 20 years. After gaining a Geology degree at Aberystwyth University, his early years at the museum saw him help document the natural science collections, transferring almost half a million specimen catalogue entries onto computer databases. He then moved into the digital team to develop the Museum’s intranet. From there Graham began to focus on external digital content and became online curator, and then as Digital Programmes Manager overseeing the Digital Content team. He has managed numerous digital projects, including the redesign of the Museums website which has been a springboard for embedding digital skills through the museum. In 2017 Graham was invited as guest speaker for the British Council’s International Museum Academy’s Transforming Future Museums training programme in Greece (and more recently in Burma in 2020), sharing best practice and engaging with numerous museums and professionals to embed digital skills, increasing their organisations impact, resilience and sustainability. Graham is currently member of the ArtUK Steering Panel, and Programming Committee of the MGC. Graham is audience focused, always working towards achieving successful online user experiences thorough evidence focussed, measurable results.
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Mark Pajak
Head of Digital, Bristol Culture
Mark Pajak is Head of Digital for Bristol Culture and Creative Industries. Mark and his digital team manage technology online and on-site across Bristol Museums and Bristol Archives. Mark’s interests involve making digitised museum collections accessible through opening up collections data and multimedia online. Mark has a background in Natural Sciences, collections management and CRM analytics and has worked in a range of museum roles in Exeter and Bristol including being a volunteer, documentation officer and Natural History Curator. Mark has also worked in the private sector as a marketing database consultant. Mark has been working to improve how Bristol Culture collects, uses and shares data about performance, putting user research at the forefront of all projects. Through the application of their digital principles, Bristol Culture has undergone an extensive digital transformation over the last five years.
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Michael Hardy
Digital Engagement Curator, Barnsley Museums
Michael Hardy is Barnsley Museums’ first Digital Curator. Michael won the Digital Culture Awards inaugural Emerging Digital Leader prize in 2022. The judges were impressed with the breadth of digital content produced throughout the pandemic to stay connected with the museums audiences. This included #MuseumJigsaws which gained an international following and remains popular almost three years later! Michael experiments with lots of playful content on social media to share the stories of Barnsley Museums five venues and diverse collections, this includes a blogsite, podcasts, film shows and online exhibitions. Michael also uses his digital skills to support community groups across the Barnsley Borough as well as helping to make sure that digital is embedded across the Barnsley Museums service.
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Natalie McGowan
Head of Partnerships, Humap
Natalie is the Head of Partnerships at Humap, a storytelling platform that works primarily with heritage and educational organisations.
They have volunteered extensively within the sector, most notably with the Ashmolean Museum, Mainly Museums and Worcester’s Tudor House Museum. At Humap, their job is to create and nurture relationships, advise and oboard clients, and manage comms and engagement. Natalie has a BA in Ancient History from the University of Birmingham and an MSc in Visual, Material, and Museum Anthropology from the University of Oxford.
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Nia Martin-Evans
Digital Content Manager – Amgueddfa Cymru
Nia joined Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales back in 2019 as a Digital Content Editor. Perfect timing in a way to support and co-ordinate digital content on Social Media platforms and the Website during the pandemic. Nia’s journey into digital began at Brighton University whilst study Digital Management and Production. Since then she’s worked within Digital teams across multiple sectors in Wales, including Media and Education before moving to the Museum sector. Since 2023 she is the Digital Content Manager at Amgueddfa Cymru, overseeing the work of the Content Team, managing web development and co-ordinating digital projects within exhibitions and events
Fay Curtis
User Researcher, Bristol Culture
Anastasia Pineschi
International Dunhuang Programme Project Manager, The British Library
Sia is the British Library’s Project Manager for the International Dunhuang Programme, an international collaboration that brings together online collections from the Eastern Silk Roads and promotes understandings of the history and cultures of the region. She manages administrative, technical and public aspects of the Programme, and has a particular interest in supporting digital humanities initiatives, especially digital frameworks that enhance connectivity between collections like IIIF and linked open data. Originally from Los Angeles, Sia has previously worked at cultural institutions such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum and Tate Modern to help manage collections information, coordinate exhibitions, and organise projects.
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Emilia Sharples
Website Content Manager, The Lyme Museum 
Based in London, Emilia is currently working as the Website Content Manager for The Lyme Museum, the first museum dedicated to exploring the lived experiences of invisible illnesses and disabilities through materiality and storytelling. Collaborating with the wider team, Emilia helps inform how content should be displayed, while exploring other avenues of improving digital accessibility and also writes articles for the associated blog. She manages the digital content, ensuring collections remain relevant and accessible to a wide range of audiences. A long proponent of this type of work, for the last five years Emilia has been running an online arts publication, Art Pot Magazine, to promote the idea of more voices to contribute to the world of art and heritage. She has a history of volunteering within the sector, with Amgueddfa Cymru, St Fagans National Museum of History, and the Norman Rea Gallery.
Emilia studied an MSc in Digital Heritage at the University of York and also achieved a bachelor’s degree in Art History at the University of St Andrews. She is currently continuing her education undertaking further modules in Accessible UX research.
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Matt Bugler
Website Manager, Japan House London
Matt is the Website Manager at Japan House London, where he has project managed several digital development projects including the major re-launch of the JHL website. He is passionate about driving digital transformation and cross-collaboration to open up new possibilities and work towards common goals. Before joining the GLAM world, Matt worked in publishing, including 5 years at Usborne Publishing which included project managing the launch of Usborne’s multi-language global website. Outside of work, Matt can be found playing tennis, tormenting his cats and obsessively categorising his favourite books and albums.