Independent Researcher

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Dr. Janice Cheddie is an independent researcher and writer on contemporary visual culture, difference, cultural translation and  issues of cultural democracy. January 2011 she is Visiting Lecturer on the International Business MBA, Greenwich Business School, University of Greenwich and  Research Affiliate at Institute of Converging Arts and Sciences (ICAS), University of Greenwich, London.  She is also a consultant on the arts, cultural heritage and cultural policy, forming the basis of her outputs focus research. She was  Visiting Senior Lecturer in Art History/Art Education , Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination, University of the West Indies, Cavehill Campus, Barbados (2009-2010). 2006-2008, she was a core member of the Dress and African Diaspora Network, a collaboration between Victoria and Albert Museum, University of California, Davis, and Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts London. Work of the Dress and the African Diaspora network, features in a special edition of Fashion Theory,Berg, 2010.  2000-2005, she was Arts Humanities, Research Council, Research Fellow on 'Translating the Image' Cross-Cultural Contemporary Arts', Goldsmiths College, University of London, led by Professor Irit Rogoff. Her work on cultural translation, difference and digital media is featured in Casting Off: New Journeys in Visual Culture’ (eds. Irit Rogoff and Deepa Naik), a publication featuring work from 'Translating the Image'  is forthcoming, Walther Konig, 2010. Her monograph Fashion and Black Femininity: The Black Woman in Anglo-American Fashion Photography’, I.B. Tauris, London is forthcoming. She has published work in Third Text (Taylor & Francis, London) Fashion Theory (Berg Press, Oxford), Journal of Visual Culture (Sage, London), Parallax (Taylor & Francis, London), make:magazine of women's art( Women's Art Library, London), Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA,MIT Press, Mass.), Art on the Line: international arts journal (Western Academic & Specialist Press, Bristol, forthcoming), and in artist catalogues for gallery-based exhibitions.

2007 She was on the Advisory panel for the design of the new permanent gallery Atlantic Worlds, National Maritime Museum, London. UK.

2005-2009 she was the lead consultant for the Heritage Diversity Task Force, Greater London Authority (GLA), London. She worked on the development and management of the Heritage Diversity Task Force (HDTF) for the Mayor's Commission on African and Asian Heritage (MCAAH), GLA, London.

The HDTF member organisations were: The British Museum;Cultural Leadership Programme;The National Archives;Museums Association;Historic Royal Palaces;English Heritage;Museums, Libraries and Archives London;London Metropolitan Archives;Museum of London;Association of Independent Museums(AIM);Institute of Race Relations; Department for Culture Media and Sport;Heritage Lottery Fund; Arts Council England, London, Greater London Authority.

The HDTF was one of the most important legacies emerging from the Mayor's Commission on African and Asian Heritage report, ‘Delivering Shared Heritage’, GLA, London, 2005. The HDTF was established in November 2006, as a strategic body charged with the implementation of the recommendations outlined in  the  ‘Delivering Shared Heritage’ report. The HDTF - comprising CEOs from the heritage sector, senior managers,representatives from government departments, strategic bodies, academics, policy makers, and community based heritage practitioners,  - served as a  joint-sector working forum, providing an unprecedented opportunity for the exchange of ideas, good practice and strategy development over the course of two years on the issues of cultural inclusion, cultural diversity and cultural democracy in London's heritage sector:  Museums, Archives and the Historic Built environment. Janice Cheddie contributed to and edited with Makeda Coaston the HDTF report Embedding Shared Heritage, GLA, London, November, 2009; a cultural policy document that focuses on the embedding of cultural diversity, access and inclusion into London's heritage sector. The HDTF report documents in detail the work of the Task Force and its sub-committees, in particular the structures, processes and exemplar projects. In its 18 essays Embedding Shared Heritage presents views from a range of London's cultural heritage leaders.

As a consultant for the MCAAH she worked on developing the international symposium 'Heritage, Legacy and Leadership: ideas and interventions',  London 2008, funded by the Cultural Leadership Programme. This international symposium was conceived as a cutting-edge intervention to stimulate analysis and debate that would enrich leadership development within the UK and international heritage sector.Janice Cheddie contributed to and edited with Makeda Coaston the symposium's report 'Heritage, Legacy and Leadership: ideas and interventions', Cultural Leadership Programme, London,  launched in February 2009.

In 2008 in the UK she researched and complied the cultural diversity listings, funded by the Cultural Leadership campaign, and hosted by the Museums Association , Museums Services Directory, in 2008-2009 and 2009-2010. Currently hosted by Cultural Leadership Programme http://www.culturalleadership.org.uk/resources/

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