Maddy is a specialist in monitoring and evaluation, having worked on projects for Tate, Lauderdale House, and Open-City. With a background researching, evaluating and leading arts learning and community projects for young people, she has moved into working in English language research. She holds a PhD in Education from the University of Nottingham, 2024, where her ethnographic research focused on a gallery education learning team during the pandemic. She examined how school arts partnerships were conducted during that time. The project was an AHRC-funded collaborative doctoral partnership with Tate Galleries. Additionally, she is a qualified secondary-level Modern Foreign Languages teacher.  

Areas of expertise

  • Evaluation and monitoring  
  • Collaborative and creative research methodologies
  • Team and organisational change

Publications

Thomson, P., Gilliam, M., Leach, S., Noble, K. & Broadhead, S. (2023) Art Now: An inquiry into the state of art and design teaching in early years foundation stage, primary and secondary education https://lau.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/17832/ 

Gilliam, M. (2021), The gallery educator’s dilemma: cultural taste and class. engage, 45. 

Education

  • PhD, Education, University of Nottingham, 2024 
  • PGCE, Secondary Spanish with French, Kings College London, 2015 
  • MA, History of Art, University of Leeds, 2011 
  • BA (Hons), History of Art and Spanish, University of Leeds, 2010 
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