Nicola Gauld

Nicola Gauld is a freelance outreach worker and curator based in Birmingham, United Kingdom. She studied History of Art at the University of Aberdeen and attained a PhD in 2006. Since then she has worked on a number of exhibitions and outreach projects including Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts (Fitzwilliam Museum, 2009), Children’s Lives (Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, 2011), Caught in the Crossfire: Artistic responses to conflict, peace and reconciliation (Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, 2013) and Fight for the Right: the Birmingham Suffragettes, a history project in which students from two local schools explored the suffrage campaign in Birmingham and made a short historical re-enactment film. Her current main role is Coordinator of Voices of War & Peace, an Arts & Humanities Research Council funded First World War Engagement Centre, led by the University of Birmingham. She also works with two organisations, Women’s History Birmingham and the People’s Heritage Co-operative, on community-focused heritage projects, most recently Untold Stories: Birmingham’s Wounded Soldiers from WW1 and Birmingham Women: Past and Present Revisited.