1. Paul Goodman
10 New Way, Tranmere Park, Guiseley, West Yorkshire, LS20 8JR
0779 116 2411
paulthomasgoodman@gmail.com
CAREER ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Career Summary
As a result of a variety of roles within the Science Museum Group over 32 years, I have accumulated
extensive strategic, management and operational experience and expertise in the stewardship, care,
management and use of collections (particularly in mixed- format visual media and collections);
research; community and volunteer engagement; digital asset management and exhibitions.
I have significant expertise at a senior level managing museum and heritage collections of international,
national and local pre-eminence, and leading innovative projects and programmes which have had
genuine diverse and broad audience and community impact and engagement.
Throughout the years, I have developed an extensive network of professional contacts encompassing
areas of curatorship and the media disciplines, particularly in photography, filmand television, as well
as working closely with numerous institutions in the cultural sector at all levels - local authority,
nationals, independents etc.
My skills set also encompasses museological policy development – over sustained period I have
developed, implemented and monitored many policies, including acquisition and disposal; conservation
and collections care; access; digitisation etc.
As part of a senior management team, business planning and budgetary management which has
supported the exploitation and maximisation of social, cultural and learning potential of the Group’s
collections to meet strategic priorities and agreed targets.
Professional PositionsHeld
Organisational
 Memberof SMG TrusteesCollections&ResearchCommittee(2012 -2014)
 Memberof NMSI (SMG) ResearchCommittee (2009-2011)
 Chairof NMSI (SMG) CollectionsGroup(2003-2012)
 Memberof National MediaMuseumseniormanagementteam(2002 – 2014)
External
 Impact Assessor,ResearchEvaluationFramework (2013-2014)
 MuseumMentor to UpperWharfedale FolkMuseumandSettle Museums(2012to date)
 SteeringGroupMember,Yorkshire MuseumsDirectorsConference (2009 -2012)
 Presidentof Yorkshire &HumbersideMuseumsFederation(2009 -2011)
 Trustee,InterimBoardof Trustees,HepworthGallery,Wakefield (2009-2011)
 UK expertadvisoronphotographyforExportLicensingUnit,ArtsCouncil England(2009 - 2014)
 SteeringGroupMember,UK Sound& VisionForum(2009 - 2014)
 SteeringGroupMember,Associationof BritishAnimationCollections(2009 - 2014)
 Executive Member,Yorkshire &Humberside MuseumsFederation(2007 - 2012)
 Trustee,VolunteeringBradford(2005 to date)
 Director,BradfordBullsRLFCFoundation &Heritage AdvisortoitsHLF bids (2005 -2012)

2.  Board Member,B-Inspired - BradfordLibrariesConsortium(2005-2010)
 Memberof MuseumsAssociation(2000to date)
 ExpertAdvisoronMGC Standardsinthe Care of PhotographicCollections[1996]
 FounderMemberof UK Registrars’Group(1995)
 Trustee,Chambre-HardmanPhotographicTrust(1995 to date)
 Member, ArchivistsinIndependentTelevision
Consultancy& Heritage Advisor- Clients
 BradfordIndustrial Museum
 National Museumof PhotographyinDoha,Qatar
 National Archivesof Malaysia,KualaLumpur
 Royal Cornwall Museum
 BradfordBullsRLFC
 Settle Museum
 Upper Wharfedale FolkMuseum
Awards
 ReceivedawardfromThe Royal PhotographicSocietyforservicestophotographyinthe UnitedKingdom
SignificantAchievements
SpecificProjects
 Digitisation:Conceptualisation,implementation,managementand monitoringof the National Media
Museum’sdigitisationprogramme,yieldingc27000 digital assetsinone year[2013-2014];
 GalleryDevelopment: Seniormemberof projectteamwhichdeliveredpermanentgalleriesatthe National
MediaMuseum - Life on Line and ExperienceTV;
 Keymemberof projectteamwhichdeliveredthe Museum's£17mLottery-fundedredevelopment(Imaging
Frontiers).
EventDelivery
 Formation,developmentanddeliveryof amajor a majortwo day international conference InNovember
2014 on the future managementof visual archives(Archives2.0– Savingthe Past,Anticipatingthe Future)
whichattractedalmost200 delegatesandspeakersfrom, USA,Germany,Japan,Poland,Latvia,Sweden,
Portugal andCroatia.
VolunteeringProgrammes
 Implementationof acollections-specificvolunteerprogramme togenerate raw metadataandmanagement
of a teamof projectstaff tovalidate andrefine the metadata;
 Successfullyimplementedinnovative collectionsvolunteerscheme - the firstuse of volunteersatthe
National MediaMuseum.
Major Acquisitions
 ProjectDirectorforcollaborative partnershipwiththe Royal PhotographicSociety(RPS),leadingtothe
acquisitionof The RPSCollection,(ProjectValue:£5m);
 Managed the acquisitionof three majorcollections –the BBC Heritage Collection(acollectionof approaching
1000 artefactsencompassingthe historyanddevelopmentof television),the LewisMorleyarchive
(approximately10,000 photographsanditemsof archival importance),andthe ImpressionsGalleryArchive
(almost20,000 photographsand archivesrelatingtoone of the mostimportantindependentphotography
galleriesinthe UK;
 Establishedthe NationalVideogame Archive in2009.

3. Heritage - CollectionsCare, Management&Access
 Responsibilityforapproximately3.5mitemsinthe National MediaCollections;
 ProjectManager forsuccessful evacuationof collectionsfrommainMuseumdisplaysandstorestosafe
havento allowcommencementof ImagingFrontiersreconstructionproject(Staff projectmanaged &co-
ordinated:upto 32 staff);
 ProjectManager forsuccessful relocationof off-site collectionstoanew store in Bradford(Budget:£50k:
Staff Managed:7) ;
 Managed anddirecteda majorprojectto rationalise andmove the Museum’sreserve technologycollections
(approximately40,000 items) inBradfordtoa purpose-builtstore atSwindon;
 Definedandimplementedacompletelynew,comprehensive Registryfilingsystemthroughoutthe National
Museumof Photographyinaccordance withthe 1958 PublicRecords Act,andtrainedall staff inits
operation;
 Catalogued,audited,condition-checkedandrecordphotographedalmost5000 itemsinthe National Road
Transport Collectionatthe Science Museum.
Fundraising
 Compilation,managementandadministrationof successful fundingapplicationstoThe ArtsFund(£342k)
and Yorkshire Forward(£600k);
 Compilation,managementandadministrationof fivesuccessful HLF/NHMFfundingapplicationstotalling
£4.357m, including£3.75mtowards the acquisitionof Royal PhotographicSocietyCollection - thisremains
the largesteverawardby the HLF to a photographicacquisition;
Research
 Conceptualised,planned,projectdirected,anddeliveredInsight(theMuseum’sCollection& Research
Centre);
 Developedandimplementedthe National MediaMuseum’sfirstresearchstrategy;
 NegotiatedandagreedMemorandaof Understandingencompassingresearchcollaborationwiththe
Universitiesof Leeds,Bradford,BoltonandNottinghamTrentUniversity.
Outreach
 As CollectionsDirector,oversawc200% expansionof the Museum’sloanprogramme;
 Drafteda standard contract foreach venue takingworkaspart of the Museum'stouringexhibition
programme.
Papers , Lecturing& Publications
 Conference Paper:Case studyonCollectionsAccess atthe MuseumsAssociationConference,Manchester
[2003] Conference Paper:BigCollections,BigChallengesonthe care of large photographiccollections –
Science Museum,Wroughton;
 Publication:Contributedtothe NMPFTCentenaryof Cinemaexhibitionbywritinganessayforpublicationas
part of an educationpack,andresearchinganddeliveringsectiononBritishSocial Realismforexhibition;
 Workshop:Care and storage of photographicimagesforthe Societyof ArchivistsinLondon;
 Deliveredathree-monthUNESCOfundedcourse onthe documentationandconservationof photographsat
the National Archives of Malaysia,KualaLumpur;
 Contributortonumerousradioandtelevisionbroadcasts,andpublications.