Moves

Gemma Dhami is the new learning, volunteering and partnerships manager at Museums Worcestershire. She had been the museum development officer based at the County Museum, Hartlebury Castle in Worcestershire. 

Ann Sumner has joined the University of Leeds as its first public art officer. She is a former director of the Barber Institute of Fine Art at the University of Birmingham.

Isabel Churcher has been appointed as the senior manager, museums, at Arts Council England (ACE). She had been ACE’s relationship manager, museums, for the West Midlands area.

Gurminder Kenth is now the property manager at Birmingham Museums Trust. She was a curator/manager for the trust.

Antonio Benitez has joined the National Media Museum in Bradford as its partnerships and learning projects manager. He was the Manchester Science Festival programme coordinator at the Museum of Science & Industry.

Trustee news

Historian David Cannadine and architect Jane Kennedy begin three-year terms as trustees at Historic Royal Palaces this month.

The Science Museum Group (SMG) has appointed the following as trustees for four years from 1 April 2015: journalist Matthew d’Ancona; businesswoman Sharon Flood; scientist Russell Foster; academic David Phoenix; businessman Anton Valk; politician David Willetts; and lawyer Fiona Woolf.

Academics Athene Donald and Ludmilla Jordanova, broadcaster Michael Grade, and Andreas Goss, the chief executive of ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG, have been reappointed as SMG trustees as well.