Jerneja Rebernak

Biography

Jerneja Rebernak joined UAL in 2015, coordinating EU-funded research and innovation grants and projects across the arts & business innovation, cultural heritage, design futures literacy, and fashion-technology. She has managed among others the following projects: Horizon 2020 T-Factor Unleashing future-facing urban hubs through culture and creativity-led strategies of transformative time, Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships FUEL4Design: Future Education and Literacy for Designers & ACCELERATE: Accessible Immersive Learning for Art and Design, Erasmus+ Knowledge Alliances Fashion-Tech Alliance and Creative Europe Creative Lenses: Innovative Business Models in Cultural Organisations.

Between 2022-2024, as Project & Partnerships Manager at the Decolonising Arts Institute, she led the operational delivery of the £3M AHRC-funded Transforming Collections: Reimagining Art, Nation and Heritage project, a groundbreaking collaboration between UAL, Tate, and 15 partner institutions across the UK. The project brought together art historians, museum professionals, and machine learning researchers to critically examine how national collections have been historically constructed, opening new pathways for understanding cultural heritage beyond established institutional narratives. She managed complex management operations across university teams and delivered a major public engagement programme Museum x Machines x Me featuring a week-long programme across Tate Modern and Tate Britain, including an international conference, practice research residencies displays, and machine learning workshops. In 2025, she contributed to the Institute's international reach by supporting the delivery of the AHRC India-UK Research into Cultural Heritage and Creative Industries programme workshop in Mumbai and has coordinated the final publication for the 20/20 Futures programme.

Previously, she coordinated 200+ international events for the European Capital of Culture Maribor 2012, managing partnerships with 25 embassies, EUNIC cluster representatives (British Council, Goethe Institute, Institut Français), and multiple European Capitals of Culture.

At the Asia-Europe Foundation in Singapore, she developed cultural exchange programmes across Asia and Europe, delivering projects in Singapore, India, Malaysia, China, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines, fostering dialogue between artists, policymakers, and cultural organisations.

With 15+ years of experience across arts, culture, and higher education Jerneja is adept at moving between strategic organisational planning and critical, systems-based thinking to support innovative, ethically grounded research, cultural programmes and knowledge exchange activities. She brings expertise in international partnerships and interdisciplinary collaborations, building cross-sector collaborations, navigating complex governance and institutional structures, managing research-to-policy translation and public engagement, grant preparation and evaluation.

Jerneja maintains an independent photography and writing practice and trains in Japanese Jiu-Jitsu and somatic movement that ground her approach to institutional transformation in embodied, situated ways of knowing.

Her published work examines how collective practices can reshape institutional knowledge production beyond Northern epistemologies.