Polly Moseley

Liverpool

Polly Moseley was brought up in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Liverpool is now home after time in Nantes, Paris, London and Manchester and studying French and English Literature at the University of Oxford. The first ten years of Polly’s career was spent working in economic development and for the French Consulate, supporting start-up businesses and working across digital, animation and the emergent VR clusters and building research and business collaborations between NE England and France. She moved from being the youngest member of the NE Innovation Management Team to taking on an experimental partnership post in Arts and Public Health for Arts Council England, Dept of Health and Culture North West. Two years into this role she received the Clore Leadership Fellowship – a year-long pioneering leadership course – and since this time she has been working freelance as a producer, translator and evaluator. Polly brought Sea Odyssey, the largest ever street theatre production to the streets of Liverpool in 2012, and went on to organise British Council exchanges and promotion of Nantes’ public art and greenspace work in the UK. Polly is a post graduate researcher & doctoral candidate at Liverpool John Moores University, researching how social and environmental values can underpin partnerships for improved urban public realm. In 2016 she also established PollyPort CIC for more co-design, ecological, restoration and public art work in North Liverpool, in partnership with National Wildflower Centre. Polly lived for 19 years on kidney dialysis, volunteered as a national renal patient advocate and dialysed in 180+ centres internationally until her transplant in 2013. She plays fiddle and loves walking, swimming, reading and spending time with children.