About

My work focuses on ethical and inclusive digital transformation, helping sectors get the most out of the effective and creative use of technology.

I am currently Head of Digital Policy for the National Lottery Heritage Fund,  the largest dedicated funder of heritage in the UK. The Fund provides leadership across the sector and works to ensure the UK’s heritage supports positive and lasting change for people and communities.

My role is to help ensure that the National Lottery Heritage Fund makes the most impactful grants it can, leading on digital policy and sector wide digital skills development.

I started in post shortly before lockdown, quickly focusing on helping the heritage sector in it’s use of digital to effectively respond to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, and to plan and redesign for the future. As part of my work, I lead the Digital Skills for Heritage initiative, which focuses on raising digital confidence and creativity across the cultural sector, supporting digital leadership, innovation and transformation.

You can find me on Twitter (for the time being), Mastodon, and LinkedIn.

Previously, on Josie Fraser

International Delegates from the Digital Nations Ministerial Summit, Uruguay 2019

My previous roles have included:

  • Board Member then Chair of the Board of Trustees for Wikimedia UK (2015-2020).  Wikimedia UK is a charity dedicated to collecting, developing, promoting and distributing open knowledge, and represents the UK within the global Wikimedia movement. 
  • Working as Lead Community Architect on JISC’s ground breaking Emerge project -a national university and further education learning technology research and development project focusing on digital professional identities, networks and communities (2007-2009) 
  • Producing ‘Young People and Social Networking Services‘ – The UKs first toolkit for schools providing advice and guidance on using social networks, produced for Becta on behalf of Childnet International (2008)