Is Heritage good for your health?
- Location
- Murray Learning Centre, R28 on the Campus Map, UG07
- Dates
- Tuesday 28 November 2017 (16:30-18:00)
- Contact
Please register via our eventbrite page. If you have any queries, please contact: h.stretton@bham.ac.uk
In this public lecture, Ros Kerslake explores the relationship between heritage, health and wellbeing, and the role that the heritage sector can play in changing lives. Join us from 16.30 for light refreshments before the lecture starts at 17:00.
Ros Kerslake joined the Heritage Lottery Fund as Chief Executive in July 2016, from The Prince's Regeneration Trust where she was also CEO.
Ros trained as a solicitor and started her career in legal roles before taking on wider leadership positions in the private sector, including for Gulf Oil and Booker Group. As Property Director of Railtrack, she developed an interest in the issues around place and urban regeneration which have characterised her roles since. Ros went on to lead RegenCo - an urban regeneration company in the West Midlands - where she was the first CEO.
Among her achievements at The Prince's Regeneration Trust, Ros led the team that saved one of the last working Victorian potteries in the UK, Middleport Pottery, bringing new life and business to the restored site.
Ros is a non-executive director of U+I group, a regeneration based property developer, and a member of the Community, Voluntary & Local Services Honours Advisory Committee. Ros was awarded an OBE in the 2015 New Year's Honours list for services to British heritage.