Fellow's Profile
Louisa Hrabowy
Fellow's Profile
Louisa Hrabowy
We Shape Our Culture: Embedding Citizen-Led Decision-Making into our Cultural Lives
Fellowship
- Themes
- Focus
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Embedding citizen-led decision-making into our cultural lives.
- Countries
- Fellowship year
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2026
- Locality
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South East
Contact
Biography
I am an independent consultant specialising in cultural strategy, policy, funding and evaluation, and a trustee of Deveron Projects in Scotland. My Fellowship focuses on strengthening citizen-led cultural governance in the UK, exploring how communities can play a meaningful role in shaping public spaces, cultural programmes and decision-making.
I aim to explore Indigenous and citizen-led cultural governance in Australia, learning from Indigenous-led cultural organisations, First Nations advisory board members of national cultural institutions, and community governance models to support advocacy for more representative and citizen-led approaches. Motivated by a career spanning arts and culture, international development and place-based regeneration, I have seen how decisions made by a privileged few can limit relevance, trust and impact.
My Fellowship is driven by a commitment to cultural democracy and to embedding citizen-led approaches that give communities real influence over their cultural futures. I hope to help shift power, diversify who gets to decide, and strengthen the social impact, legitimacy and vibrancy of the UK's cultural landscape.
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Disclaimer
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
