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About Jocelyn

Jocelyn Burnham (she/her) is an independent artificial intelligence specialist working with the creative and cultural sectors.

She has been commissioned by organisations including Arts Council England, Tate, the Church of England, the Goethe-Institut, Historic Royal Palaces, Art Fund, Shakespeare's Globe, RADA, Kew, and Bloomberg Philanthropies to produce bespoke AI workshops and resources, and has delivered over one hundred AI workshops for arts and culture organisations to date.

She takes a deliberately neutral position on AI, and her practice centres on helping organisations and practitioners develop their own confident, critical, and creative relationships with the technology through playfulness and hands-on experimentation.

Jocelyn has given lectures and talks on AI for the Royal Academy of Arts, the Open University, the British Library, the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, the London School of Economics, the National Galleries of Scotland, the University of Exeter, the Northern Ireland Science Festival, and others. Her writing on AI has been published with CultureHive, The Audience Agency, and Clore Leadership.

She also takes on long-form project partnerships with sector organisations. Recent work includes serving as project partner on The Audience Agency's Let's Get Real: AI programme, and the Arts Marketing Association's Heritage Innovation Fund project, where she developed the concept that became Goose, a peer-learning platform awarded £250,000 by the National Lottery Heritage Innovation Fund.

Before specialising in AI, Jocelyn held senior marketing and communications roles at UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK, Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival, Music Theatre Wales, and Sadler's Wells.

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Publications

Culture and the machine (page 18) | Report from Let’s Get Real: AI | The Audience Agency (March 2026)

AI in Culture | The Arts & Culture Podcast | The Association for Cultural Enterprises (Oct 2025)

The Importance of Play: Inclusive, Empowering, & Confident Approaches to AI (feat. Jocelyn Burnham) | The FAIK Files (Oct 2025)

The Future of Classical Music: Jocelyn Burnham on using play to understand AI (Sept 2025)

A.I. Right: AI's Impact on Culture: Insights from Jocelyn Burnham (August 2025)

Featured in Your go-to guides to AI | Arts Professional (March 2025)

Opinion | AI Innovation in culture is impossible without vulnerability | The Audience Agency (March 2025)

Expert Spotlight: Jocelyn Burnham | Lumos Communications (Feb 2025)

CultureTalk: Playful Innovation and AI’s Role in Culture with Jocelyn Burnham (Feb 2025)

Q&A with Jocelyn Burnham on AI in Arts and Culture | Chaptr (Nov 2024)

Featured in Cultural work, wellbeing, and AI | Sophie Frost and Lauren Vargas | Eur. J. Cult. Manag. Polic. (Nov 2024)

The AI Revolution in Arts and Heritage | Careers Unwrapped (Sept 2024)

Human leadership in an AI world | Clore Leadership (Jul 2024)

Heritage Innovation Diary: Winging it with purpose – co-creation | CultureHive (Jul 2024)

The Single ‘Most Useful Thing’ Cultural Organisations Should Learn About AI | Cultural Content (Jun 2024)

AI: Why the arts should choose playfulness over fear | Arts Professional (Nov 2023)

Why Our Theatre Marketing AI Textbook Doesn't Exist Yet (And How We'll Write it) | Mobius Industries (Nov 2023)

2022 is the Most Significant Year for Visual Design Since the Internet Began | Self-published, LinkedIn (Jul 2022)

Neural Networks Will Change Television Forever | The Startup, Medium (Jun 2020)