Monique Ricketts

Monique works with a range of arts, cultural and heritage organisations, providing consultancy and audience development support. She has a focus on delivering consultancy and managing large-scale multi-partner and multi-year projects in the South of England and internationally. She is an experienced project manager and researcher.

Recent work includes:

• Large-scale international programme evaluations: British Councils UK Australia Season 2021-22, British Council Digital Collaboration Fund 2020-21, Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture and Connecting Audiences, an EU-funded project exploring design thinking for audience development.
• Annual evaluations for various outdoor arts events: Without Walls, Norfolk and Norwich Festival, Freedom Festival and First Light Festival.
• Music and performing arts: market research to inform strategy development for Sadlers Wells East and The Mousetrap tour, New Music Biennials 10-year anniversary evaluation including composer and stakeholder interviews, and Royal College of Music welcome research to inform the development of digital signage.
• Museums and heritage: RSC’s Shakespeare Nations multi-year evaluation, British Museums JTI programme evaluation 2020-22, Museum of London ACE evaluation 2021-22, National Museum of Northern Ireland visitor journey mapping.

Prior to joining The Audience Agency as a Research Assistant in 2017, Monique worked as a Programme Coordinator within the Architecture, Design, and Fashion Department at the British Council, and spent several years in communications and events at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford.

Monique has a BSc in Business & Communications from the University of Birmingham and an MA in Cultural Economics and Entrepreneurship from Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In her spare time she enjoys walking in nature, visiting galleries and museums, yoga, and hanging out with her ginger cat.