Meet the Team

Emmie Kell

Emmie is the CEO of Cornwall Museums Partnership and a board member of the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership where she is chair of the Creative Industries Taskforce.

Emmie leads on strategic planning, regional and national advocacy and fundraising for Cornwall Museums Partnership. She is a member of the University of Exeter’s Heritage Advisory Board.

With over 25 years of experience within the museum sector including working at the V&A, Somerset House, MOSI Manchester, and Thinktank Birmingham, Emmie is a qualified coach, an experienced leadership mentor and trainer with a particular interest in governance, partnerships and collaborative leadership.

Emmie is a Fellow of the RSA and was the Arts Council England Museums Clore Fellow in 2014/15.

Jenny Opie

Jenny is the Finance Manager for the Museums Partnership. Jenny’s role is to manage the budgets and finances of the partnership. A Chartered Accountant with the ICAEW, Jenny is a specialist in charity finances after obtaining a diploma in Charity Accounting.

After training in Birmingham, Jenny gained extensive accounting experience working for a variety of small to medium sized business throughout the Midlands and the South West.

Jenny works Mondays and Tuesdays and can be reached at jenny@cornwallmuseumspartnership.org.uk

Bryony Robins

Bryony is Cornwall’s Museum Development Officer. She provides access to professional advice and guidance, to enable museums to achieve sustainable improvements and maximize their benefits to audiences and their communities.

Having trained in the arts, Bryony became interested in museums through an appreciation of how cultural activities engage and enrich people’s lives. Bryony is particularly interested in how this enables us to make connections with our heritage, creativity, and sense of place. She is a trustee for The Leach Pottery and was a member of the steering group of the Contemporary Studio Pottery subject specialist network. Bryony took a Clore Fellowship 2018-19. The Clore Fellowship is a unique programme of cultural leadership development that seeks to enrich and transform cultural practice and engagement.

Previously, Bryony was responsible for the development of a £5.5m HLF funded museum transformation project. She also has experience within museum development of overseeing regional programmes in digital engagement and learning, which took place at Museums Sheffield, MLA East Midlands and Renaissance East Midlands.

Bryony works Monday - Friday and can be reached at bryony@cornwallmuseumspartnership.org.uk

Jenna Marrion

Jenna Marrion is the Programme Manager for our portfolio of NPO work. She works alongside our consortium of partner museums in delivering the key objectives and outputs for the programme.

With a degree in Language & Communications from Cardiff University, Jenna has worked in a variety of marketing and project management roles for a diverse range of organisations; including the National Maritime Museum Cornwall, Natural England, the Cornwall Sports Partnership and Oxford Innovation.

Working mainly on European or government funded programmes within the creative, cultural and heritage sectors, she has experience of working with a broad range of partners on a number of community-engagement and support projects.

Jenna works on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays and can be reached at jenna@cornwallmuseumspartnership.org.uk

Amy Shakespeare

Amy is the Project Manager for the wAVE Immersive Experiences in Museums Project, funded by the Coastal Communities Fund. Working in partnership with Falmouth University and the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership, the project will create augmented and virtual experiences at five museums in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

During her History degree at the University of Exeter, Amy worked at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall. After graduating, she went on to work for the National Trust in visitor experience at Godolphin, the Tin Coast, and the West Cornwall portfolio. She originally joined the CMP team in 2018 as our Marketing and Impact Officer.

Amy is a trustee for Kids in Museums, Young Trustees Movement Champion, and was a Clore Emerging Leader funded by Historic England in 2019. She recently completed a MA in Heritage and Interpretation, and was awarded the Professor Susan Pearce Prize for her dissertation, ‘What If We Want To Give It Back? The Potential of Democratising the Repatriation Process in Britain’.

Amy works Monday - Friday and can be reached at amy@cornwallmuseumspartnership.org.uk

Jody Woolcock

Jody is the Marketing and Impact Officer of Cornwall Museums Partnership and spends her time developing, coordinating and managing marketing campaigns to help increase support for museums, as well as increasing participation in CMP’s partnership services. Jody works on various projects and looks after the CMP social media pages and website.

Working previously in the marketing department of a predominantly rural based insurance company, and through living in Cornwall her entire life, Jody has a great interest and keenness to learn more of the county and its surrounding heritage.

Jody spends her free time walking and blogging about her beloved Cornwall and is the founder of walking group, Cornish Ramblings.

Jody works Monday - Friday and can be reached at jody@cornwallmuseumspartnership.org.uk

Celine Elliot

Celine is Cornwall Museums Partnership’s Engagement Lead. Having joined in 2019, Celine leads our programme of engagement support for museums in Cornwall and Scilly.

With a degree in Fine Arts and a decade of experience in Youth and Community Work, Celine enrolled on an MA in Museums, Galleries & Heritage Studies; she now applies her creative and community-centered approach to the sector.

Having gained experience working with collections in the north, returning to Cornwall has allowed Celine to focus her attention on the diverse and inspirational organisations which make up the museum community in the region.

Celine works Monday - Friday and can be reached at celine@cornwallmuseumspartnership.org.uk

Karen Little

Karen is the Office Manager for Cornwall Museums Partnership and ensures the smooth running of office systems and procedures. As well as supporting Emmie in her role as CEO, Karen keeps the office compliant with current regulations and best practice whilst also being a first point of contact for visitors and callers.

Karen has a drama degree and following a period as a physical theatre practitioner moved into administration. Most recently working in an inner-city primary school as the Business Manager, she has extensive experience as an Office/Business Manager in the charitable and education sectors.

Karen works Monday - Friday and can be reached at karen@cornwallmuseumspartnership.org.uk

Ellie Smith

Ellie is the wAVE Digital Project Administrator Apprentice, working full time on various administrative aspects of the wAVE project, as well as working towards a Level 3 Apprenticeship and Diploma in Business Administration.

Ellie has recently graduated from Exeter University with a BA Honours Degree in History. Her studies focussed on social history and gender history; in particular, the role that historical popular culture has played in the binary construction of subordinate femininity and superordinate masculinity. This interest in social history has prompted her focus on the role the Heritage and Culture Sector plays in increasing understanding of diversity in the modern day.

Alongside her school and university studies, Ellie has completed a work placement at the American Museum in Bath, been employed as a Specialist for Apple and a Supervisor for St Austell Brewery. During her apprenticeship at CMP, Ellie hopes to adopt a greater understanding of the heritage sector – ultimately focussing on how projects can promote accessibility for, and increase the diversity of, museum visitors.