About
Bracket was founded by Alison Coward. Alison is passionate about collaborative working and how social media can be used to facilitate this. The interest was developed on her MA in Enterprise and Management for the Creative Arts, where she investigated the use of online tools as a potential business support method for the creative industries. This led her to develop the concept for Bracket – a consultancy which encourages skills development around collaborative working, and an agency that brings freelancers together to work collaboratively on commercial projects.
Alison has a background in providing support to creative businesses through project management, business advice and teaching in Higher Education. Having worked in management positions for organisations such as Hidden Art, Contemporary Applied Arts and the Enterprise Centre for the Creative Arts (ECCA) at University of the Arts London, Alison has hands-on experience of developing programme and initiatives which effectively promote development of business/enterprise skills in creative practitioners. Her portfolio of work includes managing membership schemes and setting up systems for administration, planning training programmes, delivering workshops, organising events and panel discussions, project managing exhibitions, as well as strategic programme management, business planning and development. Alison is a qualified Higher Education lecturer, a board member of Creative Capital, and was selected as a 2010 member of the Courvoisier The Future 500 network. She is also an Associate with The Henry Lydiate Partnership.
See Alison’s full profile on LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/alisoncoward)
Follow her on Twitter at : @alisonmarie
