Evi Baniotopoulou

Biography

Evi’s experience spans cultural organisations and academia in the UK and abroad. She has previously worked as curator and researcher at UCL’s Museums and Collections, the Tate, and as the first dedicated access manager of the Royal Academy of Arts.

She has taught art history, museum studies and cultural policy to various international cohorts, including at UCL’s MA Museum Studies, where she also co-led the pandemic-induced teaching digital shift. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

Evi was an external evaluator for the EC’s ‘Creative Europe’ and the Council of Europe’s ‘Cultural Routes’ programmes for a decade. She has also managed research in EU-funded projects and curated independent exhibitions. She is a UAL alumna (PhD, CSM), with a thesis focusing on the relationship of institutional curating with arts-based urban regeneration and city branding.

At the Social Purpose Lab, she will be analysing the University’s existing activity, and researching and evaluating the impact of new initiatives with social purpose at their core.