MADE - Staff & Board

Staff & Board

MADE has a staff team based in central Birmingham and a management board that meets 4 times a year. Architect Glenn Howells is the Chair of the MADE board. Expert reference groups and advisors are appointed on a project basis. The team is often extended to add capacity and value to project delivery and evaluation. On these occasions, we draw on our expanding network of consultants and freelance project managers.

Julia Ellis This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Chief Executive

Julia studied at Universtity of Warwick and the Courtauld Institute of Art. After working for local authority galleries and museums she became, over a 10 year period, the Founder Director of Craftspace Touring, the Birmingham -based touring and development agency for contemporary craft. She then worked as a freelance curator and consultant before joining MADE as project co-ordinator in 2001. Julia's introduction to MADE, in the context of the Urban Renaissance, CABE, RIBA West Midlands and regional design initiatives and agendas, fuelled her commitment to collaborative practice, to the engagement of people in design processes, and to the role of architecture centres as agents of change. Threads linking all areas of work include sense of place, questions of identity and the value of cultural, social and historical context.

Julie Morgan This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Design Review Manager

Julie is a Chartered Town Planner and is also qualified with a Masters in Urban Design from JCUD at Oxford Brookes. She has won national and regional awards for her innovative approach to change and making things happen, awarded by the Royal Town Planning Institute (inaugural Young Planner of the Year 2000) and RegenWM (Commendation prize for most transferable project 2004). She is a member of the RTPI West Midlands Regional Activities Committee and chaired the West Midlands RTPI Urban Design Forum in 2006. She has a wide range of experience in Development Control, Local Planning, and Consultancy and until recently led Stafford Borough Council's Urban Design Service.

Bianca Fowler This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Design Review Co-ordinator

Bianca has a very strong administration background with over 8 years of experience. Her last role, working as a Senior Administrator/Team Leader for a Recruitment Advertising Agency, saw her dealing with important recruitment campaigns for different local authorities around the country. After a short career break to start a family, Bianca joined MADE and helps run the division of Design Review with DR Manager Julie Morgan.

Sally Robertshaw This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Sally grew up in rural North Yorkshire, graduated from the University of Liverpool in Economics and Politics and spent two years working in sales in America. On returning, she worked in estate agency in Birmingham, experience of selling all types of property, from plush city centre apartments to traditional terraces; inner city ex-local authority housing, to gleaming suburban new builds and her fair share of three bed semi's along the way, helped develop an appreciation of the value of good design. This growing passion for architecture and the designed environment led her to MADE where she now runs the office, co-ordinates the Creative Communities project and is studying part time to become a Landscape Architect.

Stephanie Basher This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Communications and Project Co-ordinator

Since graduating from the University of Central Lancashire in 2004, Stephanie has spent time working with charities in a communications and publicity capacity. Along with a life-long interest in the arts, Stephanie is passionate about the environment and sustainability. It is these combined interests that led her to MADE where she implements the communications and marketing strategy as well as managing the launch events for the Making Sense of Places project, symposium for the Creative Communities programme and the 3 MADE* websites (MADE* ; Making Sense of Places ; FirstSite )

David Tittle This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Design Enabling Manager

David is a project manager and trainer who has worked in the field of urban design, enterprise and community development. David discovered urban design while working at the Civic Trust and later founded R99, a company specialising in urban design training for local authorities and others. He has designed, managed and delivered a number of training programmes for CABE, Urban Design London and individual local authorities. He is also, when not working for MADE, project manager for the CABE Urban Design Summer School. David has recently completed a diploma in Urban Design at Birmingham City University and is currently completing his MA. He is campaigns officer for the Coventry Society and company secretary for an award-winning building preservation trust.

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