This document provides a summary of Angela Piccini's academic and professional experience. It outlines her current role as Reader in Screen Media at the University of Bristol's Department of Film & Television, where she has held several management roles. It also details previous roles in academia, arts management, and heritage organizations, demonstrating extensive experience in areas such as community engagement, research, budgeting, and project management. Her background establishes her as an innovative leader with a successful track record across sectors.

1. ANGELA
A.
PICCINI
BA,
MA,
PhD
Department
of
Film
&
Television
University
of
Bristol
/
Cantocks
Close
/
Bristol
BS8
1UP
/
UK
+44
(0)117
331-­‐5087
/
a.a.piccini@bristol.ac.uk
uk.linkedin.com/in/angelapiccini
/
www.bristol.ac.uk/school-­‐of-­‐arts/people/angela-­‐a-­‐piccini/
Canadian
citizen,
academic,
curator-­‐producer,
manager
and
artist
with
a
successful
and
consistent
track
record
in
executive
decision-­‐making,
fund
raising,
strategic
planning
and
concurrent
project
management
across
academia,
the
arts,
heritage
and
community
organizations.
An
innovative
leader
skilled
in
activating
connections
across
and
between
diverse
people
and
communities
and
building
and
mentoring
teams.
AREAS
OF
EXPERTISE
• Community
Engagement
• Community-­‐Involved
Planning
• Strategic
Planning
/
Budgets
• Research
Design
/
Management
• Participatory
Mapping
• Arts
Commissioning
• Media
Production
/
Analysis
• Staff
Management
/
External
Consultants
• Data
Analysis
/
Reporting
• Academic
&
Popular
Publication
• Curriculum
Design
RELEVANT
EXPERIENCE
DEPARTMENT
OF
FILM
&
TELEVISION,
UNIVERSITY
OF
BRISTOL
2009-­‐date
READER
IN
SCREEN
MEDIA
Report
to
Head
of
School
of
Arts.
In
addition
to
teaching
and
research,
management
roles
include
Subject
Head:
Education
(HoE,
2009-­‐12)
and
School
of
Arts
Research
Director
(2015-­‐18).
Responsibilites
for
capital
expenditure
and
teaching
budgets;
undergraduate
and
postgraduate
teaching;
community-­‐based
experiential
learning;
health
and
safety;
research
supervision;
strategic
planning;
restructuring;
securing
external
funding;
generating
research
outputs;
line
management
and
performance
monitoring;
workload
management;
administrative
planning,
quality
assurance,
reporting
and
analysis.
(Promotions:
Lecturer
to
Senior
Lecturer,
2010;
Senior
Lecturer
to
Reader,
2015)
• As
HoE,
secured
5%
annual
budget
increases
from
Faculty
of
Arts:
£65k
(Teaching),
£77k
(Operations),
£150k
(Technological
Infrastructure)
• As
HoE
and
to
address
career
stagnation,
campaigned
for
and
secured
annual
Continuing
Professional
Development
award
for
Teaching
Fellows
• As
HoE,
addressed
inherited
problem
of
poor
student
satisfaction
by
spearheading
unique
student-­‐led
re-­‐design
and
implementation
of
new
curriculum,
effective
2011-­‐12
• As
HoE,
raised
National
Students
Survey
satisfaction
rates
from
52%
to
71%
in
3
years

2. Angela
Piccini
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• To
increase
visibility
of
department
in
the
city
and
nationwide,
have
partnered
with
UK
creative
and
cultural
industries
for
teaching
and
engagement
activities
• Co-­‐wrote
and
participated
in
research
funding
applications,
with
grant
capture
of
some
£4m
on
projects
involving
community
engagement,
participatory
mapping
and
heritage
(see
Appendix)
• Published
books
and
articles,
exhibited
artwork
and
was
Executive
Producer
on
some
20
MA
student
films
(see
Appendix)
DEPARTMENT
OF
DRAMA:
THEATRE,
FILM,
TV,
UNIVERSITY
OF
BRISTOL
2005-­‐2009
RCUK
ACADEMIC
FELLOW
Reported
to
Head
of
Department.
Independent
research-­‐only
post
attached
to
University
Research
Theme
‘Performativity,
Place,
Space’,
with
responsibility
for
event
design
and
management,
grant
capture
and
research
outputs.
• Raised
some
£50k
in
external
research
funding
for
projects
involving
mapping,
community-­‐researcher
collaboration
and
video
archives
• Produced
unique
web
services
(see
Appendix)
• Curated
and
managed
3
site-­‐specific,
interdisciplinary
arts-­‐and-­‐heritage
workshops
&
4
international
conferences
• Published
numerous
articles
and
books
(see
Appendix)
DEPARTMENT
OF
DRAMA:
THEATRE,
FILM,
TV,
UNIVERSITY
OF
BRISTOL
2001–2005
POSTDOCTORAL
RESEARCH
ASSOCIATE
Reported
to
Principal
Investigator
of
externally
funded
Practice-­‐as-­‐Research
in
Performance
and
Screen
(PARIP)
project.
Responsible
for
conference
design,
implementation
and
management;
research
publications,
website
design;
database
design;
delegated
management
of
annual
£60k
operating
budgets.
• Successful
design,
curation,
production
and
management
of
3
international
festival-­‐
conferences
financed
through
registration
fees,
each
involving
some
200
delegates
showing
performance,
dance,
screen
and
art
practice
and
sharing
research
• Collaborated
with
technical
researchers
to
research,
design
and
produce
state-­‐of-­‐the-­‐art
Semantic
Web
database
of
500
international
practitioner-­‐researchers
CADW,
NATIONAL
ASSEMBLY
FOR
WALES
1997–2001
PUBLICATIONS
OFFICER
Reported
to
Publications
Manager,
within
Interpretation
Unit.
Responsible
for
tendering
and
commissioning
print,
design
and
photography
contracts
for
commercial
and
statutory
publications;
copyright
clearance;
research;
liaising
with
Mapping
and
Planning
departments;
copy-­‐editing;
oversight
of
Welsh-­‐language
editions;
proof-­‐reading.
• Successfully
argued
for
quality
as
‘best
value’
criterion
within
publications,
thus
securing
£300,000
annual
print
budgets
• Oversaw
redesign
of
flagship
guidebook
series
• Launched
highly
popular
photographic
calendar

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Piccini
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OTHER
EXPERIENCE
Invited
member
of
numerous
international
editorial
boards,
steering
committees,
advisory
boards
and
research
teams.
Various
invited
speaking
engagements.
Between
2002-­‐10,
Chair
(2
years)
and
Secretary
(3
years)
of
volunteer-­‐run
Brislington
Community
Partnership
(UK)
and
active
in
Brislington
Community
Archaeology
Project.
Since
1992,
participated
in
several
community-­‐based
archaeology
and
heritage
projects,
UK
and
Lower
Mainland
(see
Appendix).
2013-­‐date
BOARD
MEMBER
Audio-­‐Visual
Heritage
Society
of
BC
1995–1997
RESEARCH
ASSISTANT
Grade
1b
Board
of
Celtic
Studies,
Department
of
Geography,
Swansea
University
1990-­‐1991
LIBRARY
ASSISTANT
Vancouver
Public
Library,
Main
Branch
1987-­‐1991
CO-­‐OP
MEMBER
Amicae
Housing
Co-­‐op,
Barclay
St,
Vancouver
1986-­‐1991
VOLUNTEER
FILM/ART
CRITIC
&
NEWSREADER
CiTR
Radio,
UBC
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
AND
SKILLS
Professional
Development:
Managing
Change,
University
of
Bristol
(2010);
Managing
Academics,
University
of
Bristol
(2010);
Introductory
Certificate
in
Management,
University
of
Bristol
(2008);
Fair
Recruitment,
University
of
Bristol
(2004);
Teaching
and
Learning
in
Higher
Education,
University
of
Bristol
(2003);
Streaming
Content
for
the
Web,
BUFVC
(2001),
Copyright
and
Online
Content,
BUFVC
(2001)
Skills:
Qualitative
and
quantitative
research
methods;
research
ethics;
Final
Cut
Pro,
HTML,
MSOffice,
Photoshop,
WordPress,
social
media,
presentation
software
(Prezi,
Powerpoint)
EDUCATION
PhD
(2001)
Archaeology
and
Prehistory,
University
of
Sheffield:
Celtic
Constructs:
Heritage
Media,
Archaeological
Knowledge
and
the
Politics
of
Consumption
in
1990s
Britain
MA
(1993)
Archaeology
and
Prehistory,
University
of
Sheffield
(with
Distinction)
BA
(1990)
Art
History/English
Literature
(Dbl
Major),
University
of
British
Columbia
LANGUAGES
English
(native
speaker),
French
(basic
conversational),
Italian
(basic
conversational),
Spanish
(advanced
spoken;
intermediate
written),
Welsh
(basic
conversational)