Staff Profile

Strategic Cultural Partnerships Manager

I manage and support strategic University partnerships in the cultural and creative industries. As a member of the University's Business Development and Enterprise team, I am working closely with Dean of Culture and Creative Arts to scope current cultural partnership activity and identify potential areas for strategic development.

As part of this role, I primarily manage institutional relationships with a portfolio of cultural partners. I also work on strategic cultural projects, and with key policy and funding partners around the creative industries.

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Training and development

• MSc in Strategic Leadership and Level 7 Senior Leader Degree Apprenticeship Newcastle University Business School, 2020 - 2023

Memberships

• Fellow (FHEA) Advance HE
• Chartered member (MCLIP) CILIP: The Library and Information Association
• Chartered member (CMgr MCMI) Chartered Management Institute

Professional associations

• Director and Trustee Mortal Fools
• Co-founder and Director Women in Tech North East CIC

Awards

• Hachette Children's Novel Award winner, 2023
• Tech Women 100 Individual winner, 2020

• Articles

  • Pattinson RL. Project review: Museum partnerships, virtual reality and The Catherine Storr Experience. Museological Review 2017, (21), 53-57.
  • Pattinson RL. A partnership approach to children's literature collections. Information Professional 2017, (November 2017), 48-51.
  • Smith RL. Reinventing OCR for early printed books. CILIP Update 2015, (February 2015), 40 - 41.
  • Smith RL. Libraries and word of mouth marketing. CILIP Update 2011, (August), 40-42.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

  • Schofield T, Trujillo Pisanty D, Arrigoni G, Reynolds K, Pattinson R. Magical Realism and Augmented Reality: Designing Apps with Children in a Cultural Institution. In: Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '19). 2019, San Diego, CA, USA: ACM.

• Online Publications

  • Pattinson RL. How can we support women working in academic computing roles?. London: Computing, 2021. Available at: https://www.computing.co.uk/opinion/4029707/support-women-academic-computing-roles.
  • Pattinson RL. Connecting citizens with policy through technology. London: Computing, 2021. Available at: https://www.computing.co.uk/sponsored/4028833/connecting-citizens-policy-technology.