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🎙️Welcome to the RECAP podcast! 

👋Today we welcome the wonderful Samantha Bowen...

Samantha  delivers training globally to the museum and cultural sector on all aspects of

welcoming children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). She also

speaks at conferences, writes articles and mentors museums on organisational change

in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

Samantha has worked in the Museum sector for over 25 years during which time she has been a Curator, Education Manager and Museum Development Officer. She brings this

knowledge, combined with her lived experience as a SEND parent to her

disabled daughter Lucy, to support museums as a freelance consultant.

But that is not all, Samantha is the founder of the SEND in Museums campaign, author of the Special Schools and Museums toolkit and creator of www.sendinmuseums.org, a sector advocacy and guidance resource.

In 2021 She  was named the Radical Change Maker in the Museum Association’s

Museums Change Lives awards and in 2024 she won the Sector Impact award from the

Museums and Heritage Show. 

💬It was so much fun talking to Sam, let us know in the comments what you thought!

🔗Links:

Sam's website is: www.sambowen.co.uk and the project website is: www.sendinmuseums.org 

Here is the 10 minute advocacy film Sam made:  https://youtu.be/-ACn41kUfWc

Lucy's clothing line with Born Anxious: https://bornanxious.co.uk/our-collaborations/lucy-smiles-collection/

Elly Chapple TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/elly_chapple_diversity_is_the_key_to_our_survival_the_shoeness_of_a_shoe