Sonia Rasbery Learning Consultant
Sonia Rasbery
Member Type
Individual
Category
Marketing/Events
Discipline
Project Management
Town
Havant
Sonia Rasbery has worked in the cultural sector since 1992. She has had a varied career encompassing the development of learning services, to curatorial roles to working for sector advisory services. She brings this wealth of experience to her current role as a freelance consultant. Through these roles she has worked with a wide range of organisations from the cultural, volunteer and green sectors.
Sonia is a committee member of Outside In and ArtRefuge, both are arts organisations supporting people at risk of exclusion.
She also has a keen interest in locally grown food, she grows her own organic fruit and vegetables in a plot in her back garden as well as volunteering at local organic small-holding Tuppenny Barn as a trustee.
As well as gaining a BA in History and a MA in Museum Studies, Sonia has also completed a RHS Level 2 Certificate in Horticulture, a Certificate in Volunteer Organisation Management and a Continued Professional Development Course in Environmental Management and Assessment.
Rasbery brings together Sonia’s interest in growing your own, green issues and sustainability with her experience of working with a wide range of audiences through her career within the cultural sector.
Sonia Rasbery is a learning consultant with extensive experience of museum-related education, with a background in museum development on a regional and local level, and researching, developing and managing education services.
She specialises in project management and development, evaluation and community engagement for organisations across the cultural and green sectors.
She is also a qualified access auditor and provides access advice and support.
I am an experienced project manager and co-ordinator. I have successfully managed and delivered a range of projects including large and small scale multi-partnership projects, projects working with different audiences (e.g. with mental health participants), and those involving artists.
Testimonials
Sonia worked for Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove, as project co-ordinator for World Stories South East. This project, which involved four regional museum services, was a core part of RP&M’s Stories of the World initiative. Despite tight timeframes, reporting and spending deadlines Sonia did a fantastic job of co-ordinating a wide variety of activities including the application and selection process, training events, evaluation activities and the development of marketing materials. She maintained positive working relationships with all partners and I personally found her to be efficient, effective, motivated and helpful in every respect. We are pleased to be working with Sonia again on some legacy activities and grateful to her for identifying funding opportunities to make these possible.
Helen Mears, Keeper Of World Art , Royal Pavilion 28/10/2012
Evaluation can be a tedious task especially if it is not properly implemented and embedded in the project. Working with Sonia was different. It wasn’t only about gathering data and statistics but noticing little and hard to pin down changes in people’s attitudes and values. Ongoing evaluative conversation around the project progress, the work and responses from the people who were taking part was helping me to maintain critical distance to the process, my practise and the work produced. Invaluable.
Ania Bas, Locus Lead Artist27/01/2012
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