Monica Corcoran

Monday, 18 May - Workshop Measuring what matters: Social impact and shared data practices in festivals

Monica Corcoran is Strategic Development Manager at the Arts Council of Ireland and has over 35 years’ experience in arts management and development. She has led on policy development in several areas including the Arts Council’s Equality, Human Rights and Diversity Policy (2019) and their Place, Space & People (2021) spatial policy. She is involved in several developmental initiatives including All In, the groundbreaking new UK and Ireland cultural access scheme for disabled people. 

She is also currently leading on measurement and evaluation work, having initiated the pilot with local government partners that led to creating the Arts Council’s Outcomes Measurement Guidebook. With her Festivals’ team colleagues at the Arts Council, she has been leading out on the further development of that work through the Festivals Social Impact Measurement pilot. 

Monica has participated in a number of the EU’s Open Method of Coordination (OMC) Working groups most recently working on the Gender Equality in the Cultural and Creative Sectors Group.