Camilla Nichol (Advisory Board Member 2013-2014)

Camilla left Leeds Museums in October 2014 to take up a new role as Chief Executive of the Arctic Heritage Trust in Cambridge; she regrettably had to step down from the project advisory board in November 2014. We hope to recruit Camila's replacement as Head of Collections at Leeds Museums onto the project Advisory Board.

Camilla Nichol was Head of Collections at Leeds Museums and Galleries - one of the largest local authority museums services in the UK with nine sites, 1.3 million items in the collection and 1.1m visitors, where she has been since 2008. In this role she is responsible for all matters concerned with the care, curation and use of the diverse collections, but also has wider responsibilities for partnership development, digital media, service strategy development and managing the Arts Council Major Partner Museum programme.  Previously she headed up the science team for York Museums Trust as curator of geology and prior to that worked in curatorial and technical roles at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow, Almond Valley Heritage Trust and the Scottish Football Museum.  She is museum mentor for Whitby Museum and Trustee for the Burton Constable Foundation. She has pursued a close working relationship with Leeds University and is on the boards of a small number of academic centres which further the research potential of culture and heritage and is currently supervising two AHRC funded collaborative doctoral award students.