Natalie Chambers
Natalie Chambers is an experienced Museum Learning Consultant who specialises in working with young children, families and schools. She has enabled national and regional museums to think creatively about working with these key audiences and enjoys developing imaginative learning solutions to suit the experienced museum educator and the non-specialist museum professional. www.learningmatters2u.co.uk
Martin Elson
Martin Elson BA DPhil MRTPI is a Chartered Town Planner specialising in spatial planning for culture and leisure. He is also Emeritus Professor in Planning at Oxford Brookes University. He has written the report Public Libraries, Archives and New Development: A Standard Charge Approach (2008), and in association with Sophia Mirchandani and Katie Norgrove, written Arts, Museums and New Development: A Standard Charge Approach (2009). He acted as Client Advisor to the Cultural and Sport Planning Toolkit and continues as Client Advisor to the Living Places Partnership and MLA. He also acts as a specialist advisor to Sport England for its Planning Contribution Kitbag web site, and has held a contract for the up-dating of the site since 2005.
Cameron Taylor
Cameron Taylor founded Seabridge Consultants a heritage and tourism consulting business specialising in ancestral tourism developments. Cameron cofounded the 1999 Orkney Homecoming. He has been consultant to Scotland’s national AncestralScotland initiative since its inception, is master trainer for an ancestral tourism training course and has written and lectured in Scotland, the US and Canada on various aspects of Scotland’s ancestral heritage. Cameron was Chairman of the Orkney Homecoming 2007
Cassie Herschel-Shorland, Access and Museum Design
Cassie Herschel-Shorland set up Access and Museum Design as an independent expert in inclusive exhibition design and interpretation. She works directly for museums, galleries, exhibition designers, architects and with consultants in complementary fields. Cassie's collaborative approach provides museums, galleries and heritage sites with an extended service drawing on expertise in: intellectual, physical and sensory design, audience development, exhibition and interior design, learning and community inclusion.