Hilary Burrage is a professional writer, consultant and social researcher. She works in the areas of sustainability, regeneration, knowledge and strategic policy, and has post-graduate qualifications and research experience in the Sociology of Science and Technology (particularly knowledge ecology and the knowledge economy), Social Policy, Health (especially teenage pregnancy) and Education.
With a first degree in Sociology and the Social Sciences, and subsequently both a Senior Lecturer in Health and Social Care and a University Research Associate in Social Medicine, Hilary holds a post-graduate certificate in education (PGCE) and is an experienced teacher and adult education lecturer. She has also been a journal editor and is the author of many texts on a wide range of subjects for academic, journal and professional publishers.
Hilary’s consulting and practitioner experience outside the academic world is similarly broad. She has worked to evaluate and advise on the development of public service provision such as Sure Start Children’s Centres and services for at risk Young People, and is herself in a voluntary capacity a committed community activist. She has extensive networks in politics and policy.
Currently a Non-Executive Director of BURA, the British Urban Regeneration Association (where she is also Equality and Diversity Champion), Vice-Chair of the North West Sustainable Development Group (advisers to the NW of England regional strategic bodies), Hilary is Founder-Chair of the arts and knowledge quarter regeneration charity HOPES: The Hope Street Association, selected, as national exemplar in 2000 by the Millennium Commission, for its midsummer community festival.
Hilary is a Tutor for the Homes and Communities Agency ‘In A Nutshell’ on-line course on place-making and sustainable communities. Increasingly she is also developing this interest independently as a speaker and lecturer on these themes at events around the country.
Hilary Burrage’s other recent experience includes service as a member of the Defra (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) Science Advisory Council, as a Non-Executive Director of an NHS Trust, and as a Lay Partner of the Health Professions Council. She has also held many honorary positions such as Non-Executive Directorships of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society and of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, member of the Council of Liverpool Chamber of Commerce and Industry – where she chaired the Arts and Culture committee – and before that membership of the Executive Council of the BSA (British Sociological Association).
Social inclusion and fairness have been life-long threads in Hilary’s activities and she has undertaken many assignments on equal opportunities and diversity, including work both at policy and formal levels (in education, regeneration, the workplace, music and elsewhere) and at the level of everyday experience: she founded the free and informal open network known as Monday Women.
Herself previously a trained classical singer, and for many years now married to Tony (Martin Anthony Burrage), a professional orchestral musician, in her spare time Hilary has for the Hope Street Association commissioned, promoted and produced a dozen or so annual large-scale community Hotfoot concert programmes for amateur and professional musicians together. Separately, she is manager of some small classical music ensembles which offer community and educational programmes as well as performing to the highest standards in their own right.
Hilary Burrage is a past American Field Service International Scholar and now a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). Based largely in London and Liverpool, she works across the UK and has many international connections.
Hilary Burrage can be contacted directly via email or on LinkedIn.
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Hilary Burrage’s other two websites are:
* Dreaming Realist (www.dreamingrealist.com): a journal-style look at life, which includes all Hilary’s previous general blog postings from this website as well as up-to-the-minute commentary, news and photographs. This website also includes Sustainability As If People Mattered, as a theme within Dreaming Realist where we examine some of the challenges of achieving sustainability and resilience for the future;
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* a million small conversations (www.millionsmallconversations.com): a discussion forum aimed at connecting small ideas for bigger sustainable change, with a view to a future book on this pressing issue.