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Civic University Lead and Senior Engagement Fellow
Ronda is the Civic University Lead and Senior Engagement Fellow at the Public Engagement with Research unit.
With a PhD from the ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ Education School, Ronda has over twenty years of experience working in civic, community and university related engagement in a multidisciplinary context as an engagement, learning and research professional within the arts and cultural sector. Formerly Head of Engagement and Research at John Hansard Gallery (2000-2018), in 2014, Ronda received a MARSH Award from the National Association of Gallery Education (Engage) for excellence and innovation in gallery education.
Passionate about holistic approaches to engaged-research and community-university engagement, Ronda is currently a member of the City of Culture Bid 25 Research Group and Community Sub Group. Commissioned by Arts and Culture at the ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ, the research was recently awarded funding from Arts Council England, Ronda is a lead researcher for the ambitious Connecting Culture research programme, exploring the impact of ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ’s Culture Quarter on the lives of children and young people.
Ronda is an active member of the British Sociological Association Auto/Biography Research Group and an Engage Academy 2020 Fellow with the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE).