Bernadette Lynch, Relational solidarity in action

Bernadette Lynch is an internationally known writer, lecturer and researcher in museum theory and practice. She is a museum academic and professional with thirty-five years’ experience in senior management in UK and Canadian museums. Formerly Deputy Director at the Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, she has a reputation for ethical, innovative participatory practice focusing on solidarity, decolonisation; power; democracy; debate; conflict; contested collections; difficult subject matter and activism. Her international research and consultancy concentrate on social change through critical collaboration with diverse communities, and in leading museum transformation and change. She publishes widely on participatory democracy in museums, and on ‘useful museum’ practice. She is founder of the international museums’ network, Solidarity in Action and is Honorary Research Associate, University College London. She is currently editing a book called Museums and Solidarity in Action for University College London Press, with contributions from museum academics and practitioners from around the world. Her writing is freely available online: http://ucl.academia.edu/BernadetteLynch